Sunday, November 30, 2008

What, No Terra-Man?!?

So, in Superman #682 (Triangle #6 of the Meet the New Krypton, Same As the Old Krypton saga), Supergirl, her parents, and a bunch of other Kandorians have made a decision in the wake of Doomsday's attack:

After our brush with Doomsday, we wanted to know we were safe from others who might attack us to get to you. Your foes are no longer something you have to deal with.
So they dash around gathering up Superman's foes, from prison, from Arkham, from just hanging around...and plop them into the Phantom Zone.

I have no real problem with the general concept. But you know what bothers me? Look at what we get:

Even Metallo or the Kryptonite man would be better than this bunch...From bottom left clockwise we've got Parasite, Silver Banshee, Bizarro, Toyman, and Prankster surrounding Mon-El.

This is what Superman's rogues' gallery has come to? Really?!? I mean, seriously, we barely even rise to the level of Spider-Man's deadly foes here. Prankster and Toyman?!?

(Note--since Luthor and Brainiac are both held by a secret military agency wanting to destroy Superman, they're no doubt shielded from the Kandorians' senses. Still, you'd think that given their experiences with Brainiac, they'd storm the Pentagon et al until they found him...why wasn't he goal #1??)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again--Superman has the lamest rogues' gallery out there.

Special note--after this panel, where a band of Kandorians breaks into Arkham to seize Toyman:

So much for the Battle For The Cowl, eh?I'm going to be really cheesed off if Batman doesn't get involved in this rigmarole rather quickly with his secret stash Kryptonite...oh, wait, we're supposed to pretend that we believe Batman's dead, aren't we...)

1 comment:

S Bates said...

In addition to Lex and Brainiac, where are Metallo, Mongul, Mr Mxy-something, Zod, Darkseid, Eradicator, Hank Henshaw, Superboy-Prime, etc?

Admittedly, I haven't followed the Superman books for years so maybe a few of these have been "killed"?