DC is weird. Of the two big comic book publishers, DC’s most famous heroes are older than Marvel’s; DC’s Superman predates Captain America by three years, Batman has 23 years on Spider-Man, and when Wolverine first showed up in 1974, Wonder Woman had been around for three decades.
But again, DC is weird. Even though the newly rebooted DC Studios has the most venerable, beloved, and established superheroes in the business, its first offering is a group of rag-tag anti-heroes that nobody has heard of, aren’t remotely aspirational, and feel like benchwarmers for The Suicide Squad. The show is the new animated HBO Max series Creature Commandos, the first official installment in the new DCU, created and written by James Gunn.
