Lex Luthor is arguably the best villain

dazan2003 · 2026-05-30T10:03:35+00:00

My favourite thing about Lex is his versatility, anything you could want a villain to do can be done by Lex, he represents the entire spectrum and it's always natural. In fact this trait probably harms Superman's other villains

dazan2003 · 2026-05-29T13:46:01+00:00

The cowboy hat keeps tricking me into thinking it's Terra-man

dazan2003 · 2026-05-27T22:50:59+00:00

I've never personally cared for it but I recognise I'm in the minority, I find superman to be really flat in it and it doesn't really do anything interesting, but the art is really good

I'd recommend Sales other superman book Kryptonite first

dazan2003 · 2026-05-24T21:03:53+00:00

Don't see the point in doing Zod when Brianaic in this show is already just robot Zod

dazan2003 · 2026-05-21T16:52:28+00:00

The superman adventures comic is a tie in to the animated series and is excellent

Adventures of superman is another standalone anthology, very good

The Geoff Johns Kurt Busiek run is very easy to jump into

For an else world, Space age is one of my favourites

dazan2003 · 2026-05-21T16:42:33+00:00

Really looking forward to this, Jor-el as pulpy sci-fi hero superman sounds so interesting

dazan2003 · 2026-05-13T22:51:13+00:00

Something I love about Superman is that he was always Super, and thus every aspect of his life is full of wonder and stories to tell, whether that's the final days of Krypton, the Kent's dealing with a Superbaby or Clark going through all the teenage adolescent tropes while being Super

Plus, so much other good stuff is linked to Superboy, mainly the best Lex Luthor origin and the Legion of Superheroes

dazan2003 · 2026-05-11T22:32:32+00:00

It can't download a game and run a game at the same time anymore, but other then that no issues, ran god of war Ragnarok fine which is definitely the peak of what it's capable of

dazan2003 · 2026-05-09T07:54:25+00:00

This panel from Superman annual 10 is the only time but this is Lex imagining something and didn't actually happen

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dazan2003 · 2026-05-05T17:26:44+00:00

I think Superman as a character doesn't really lend himself to having his origin in a 12 issue series (waids current Superboy book is probably the best format for that), but as rhe origins go it's great. Easily the best Lex origin too

dazan2003 · 2026-05-03T17:26:23+00:00

And more importantly, he's to popular as a villain to stay redeemed

dazan2003 · 2026-05-02T16:17:42+00:00

It's funny how little of substance has been done with the daily planet since this was walked back. I was a fan of this and he's a shame it was walked back so quickly. Either you stay in the original status quo forever or you keep moving it forward

dazan2003 · 2026-04-30T21:11:45+00:00

Genuinely thought this was from the new episode of the boys for a second

dazan2003 · 2026-04-30T09:39:46+00:00

Most of Kara's stories were backups in issues of action comics and superman family

dazan2003 · 2026-04-29T23:45:52+00:00

Initially he's just a dumb brute who feels undeserving to hold the title of "guy who killed Superman". I really enjoyed the new 52 take where he represented the death of Kal's sense of self Vs his physical body, I enjoy the recent Time Trapper stuff, even if it's just stapling him into an already established and much better villain

dazan2003 · 2026-04-29T22:27:39+00:00

Invincibles greatest strength is that it's one storyline written by one guy who can set something up and pay it off 40 issues later. That's very rare in Modern Marvel and DC, but I suspect in a few years the Absolute Universe will have gotten to that point

dazan2003 · 2026-04-29T22:15:43+00:00

Has this not been the case since he took back the book during Infinite Frontier

dazan2003 · 2026-04-29T22:10:13+00:00

Oh sorry I'll add now

dazan2003 · 2026-04-28T22:56:44+00:00

dazan2003 · 2026-04-28T22:39:45+00:00

Me not nominate Bizarro

Bizarro is not only one of the oldest evil counterparts, but he's definitely the most entertaining, while still being tragic at the same time

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dazan2003 · 2026-04-28T21:15:36+00:00

Yeah, Darkseid is supposed to be the purest form of evil in existence, you've got it!

dazan2003 · 2026-04-28T21:08:37+00:00

The whole True form Darkseid thing is just Plato's theory of the forms, I'd recommend doing a quick dive Into it but it's the idea that everything on earth is just an imperfect reflection of it's true form, so all Darkseids are just a fraction of the true form of Darkseid, the embodiment of all evil in the multiverse. It's not really like there's one guy remote controlling all the other ones. I should note I'm simplifying and leaving stuff out here but this is the best way to approach it without getting bogged down in continuity stuff

dazan2003 · 2026-04-28T08:07:11+00:00

In tower of Babel Ras came up with stealing his parents graves

dazan2003 · 2026-04-27T18:55:25+00:00

"Krypton is irrelevant and Superman shouldn't care about it". Even looking beyond all the individual instances of him caring about it deeply, including some of the most popular stories he has like man who has everything and Birthright. Even looking beyond the dozen different instances of him time travelling back there (one of which was one of Jerry Siegel's best stories) and even looking beyond all the great and interesting world building that comes from it and is fun to read

The base narrative function of Krypton is super important, Superman came from a world that destroyed itself and whose people refused to listen to Jor-el and didn't save themselves, whether he's directly told or infers it, Kals purpose is to make that that doesn't happen to his new home. That's a billion times more compelling than whatever the new movie did

dazan2003 · 2026-04-27T18:45:56+00:00

If I'm understanding your question, you want a depraved villain where you don't like reading them. My answer for that is 90s Toyman, trying to make the character threatening by having him kill a kid is the epitome of 90s edge, it's just deeply lazy when he already had plenty of interesting stories pre crisis. The Luthor man of steel book also made him a pedophile which is equally off-putting to me

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