BNP at Home Recommends: Anatomy of a Metahuman

Writers: S.D Perry & Matthew K. Manning / Artist: Ming Doyle / Colorist: Scott Holladay / DC Comics That Rona is in full effect causing the comics industry to freeze up for the time being. But don’t worry, BNP got you. Just because there aren’t any new comics coming out doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of incredible material you might have missed over the years. One such book is Anatomy of a Metahuman. This book is a DC comics Encyclopedia that doubles as a medical journal on some of the universe’s most powerful beings.  I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, I loved those giant five-pound superhero encyclopedias that had an image and a paragraph or two about every single character within the universe in alphabetical order. I would spend hours rustling through the pages and learning about obscure heroes like Arm-Fall-Off Boy who has the ability to detach his limbs and use them as blunt weapons, or Condiment Man, who uses weapons to shoot condiments at people. I couldn’t get enough.

I might even use it as reference material for in-depth arguments with my friends. This was pre-internet, at least in the way that we know it now, so a book like this was the place I’d go to get all my information. Anatomy of a Metahuman takes that idea and applies a tinge of creativity to it. Essentially, this book is made up of the stitched together notes that Batman has on some of the most powerful characters in the DC Universe. They’re like reference notes that he can either refer…