What if Marvel bought out DC?What if the Dandy survived as a digital comic?What if the Authority were never published?WHAT IF DREDD TOOK HIS HAT OFF?Sea Lion Press presents a collection of over a dozen essays on how American and British comic history could have ended up taking very different paths. Inside are characters from Spider-Man to Sonic the Hedgehog, from Alan Moore shaping the DC Universe to Jack Kirby being absent from it, from how to save Acclaim Co...

At a crucial moment in the war, Neville Chamberlain – Britain's greatest Prime Minister – resigns?Impossible as that seems, it could have happened.In this collection of essays, we look at six ways that the European Great War and the world it made could have gone very differently. From that old standby, "what if Germany had invaded Ireland", to new counterfactuals such as "what if Japan had joined the war", we aim to challenge what we all think we know.Are our ideas ...

Ireland is a country that is, in many ways, still defined by the British occupation and the nature of its partition and independence and so there is much room to explore how it could have evolved differently in different circumstances.What would home rule have looked like in practice? What struggles would an Ireland that won independence in the late 18th century have faced? How would Ireland have positioned itself if the Nazis had won the Second World War?In this collection, thirteen talen...

What will the end of the world be like?Plague or nuclear fire? Asteroids or floods?Divine wrath or people meddling with what should have been left alone?The apocalypse may come in the future, but what apocalypses might have occurred if history had played out differently? What if nukes had flown during the Cuban Missile Crisis? What if an asteroid had been on a collision course with Earth before the first person could set foot on the Moon? What if humanity destroyed it...