Super Friday
As you may have noticed, things have been very quiet around here as work has been nuts.
There's been a lot of old-school goodness from DC as of late. The Showcase trades are selling like hotcakes, and then there's this little number from a ways back.
DC's Greatest Imaginary Stories: 11 Tales You Never Expected to See!
Watch as Superman goes through wives like so many tissues! See how Bruce Wayne was ALWAYS going to become Batman! Captain Marvel watches a nuclear holocaust! And so on.
The Superman Red/Superman Blue story was the highlight for me. The folks of Kandor read Superman the riot act about how he's a complete fucking failure, and they give him six months to straighten his act out and:
- Return them to normal size
- Get rid of all the goddamn kryptonite
- Stop all crime and evil
The obvious answer is, of course, to stick his super-noggin into a brain-amplifying machine, which not only boosts his intelligence 100 times, but splits him in half (in convenient color coding).
There's a brief allusion to this storyline in one of the Supreme tales as I recall, and it has the standard "Lex Luthor would save humanity if he'd stop being so darn evil" plotpoint, seen in so many of these tales. But it's such a satisfying story, where various foes of Superman come in, say their respects, then leave. There's also an exodus of the Superfamily, though Beppo and Streaky are suspiciously absent.
