The Brilliance of Zack Snyder’s DC Universe

His superhero films, full of complex characters, deep symbolism, and faithfulness to the comics, are unlike anything ever seen before — and possibly ever again

I. The Beginning

II. Birth of a Universe

III. A Super Vision

IV. The Reactions — and the Reaction to those Reactions

V. Justice Denied

VI. References, Allusions, Symbolism & Iconography

VII. A Heroic Cast

VII. The Future

“You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.”

— Kurt Woolf in a letter to Franz Kafka

I. The Beginning

We are living in the age of the comic book film.

The highest-grossing film franchise of all time is the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Since its inception in…