Originally published in 2004 the 12-issue series SOLO gave some of comics' greatest creators the chance to create stories set in the DC Universe & beyond Each issue featured one artist including Tim Sale (Batman The Long Halloween) Paul Pope (Batman Year One Hundred) Darwyn Cooke (DC The New Frontier Before Watchmen Minutemen) & many others Stories star Batman Robin Superman The Spectre & The Teen Titans but also include westerns war stories science fiction epics humor & horror as well as introspective tales from the creators' own lives