Worlds' Finest #11: Desaad knows how to throw a party!

[aeka]

And this was honestly the only exciting thing that happened this issue.

Well, there's also Little Desaad being all cute and adorable hugging his purple cat, but that's covered in another story.

Anyway....











Five bucks says the climax of this story will reveal that Desaad was the guy Huntress and Power Girl followed through the Boom Tube from Earth-2. Which by then won't be much of a climax. Or does this scene right here count as the climax? I'm honestly not sure since there's been no build-up to this point.

Admittedly, Desaad is one of those characters I'd like to see his origin fully explored. I don't trust Levitz to be the man to do it, but I'd like to see someone flesh him out nonetheless. I'm especially interested in knowing how he went from being the cute kid below to looking like the guy above besides being tricked into killing his favourite pets.

Comments

[big_daddy_d]

I have to say..Helena is scorchin in that dress. Yowza!

[freezer]

Young Desaad: cute, innocent and had the emotional stability of a Jenga tower after round ten.

[onceaskrull]

Karen holds the :o face for way too long.

[crinos]

I still can't get over Darkseid's bowl cut.

Moe Howard is the tiger force of the universe.

[lieut_kettch]

If it's good enough for Guy Gardner, it's good enough for Darkseid.

[superfangirl1]

Darkseid needs to bring it back into evil fashion.

[nyadnar17]

The is a big difference between innocent and dumb.. Also why the hell did he blame the bird instead of Darkside or himself?

[cricharddavies]

Because this is a story that Darkseid is telling.

[icon_uk]

He can be more easily convinced that two animals might act more like their typical selves than he can believe that a friend would lie to him in order to cause him emotional pain.

[captainbellman]

Along with Granny Goodness' pet hound Mercy, it seems all you have to do in order to become Darkseid's courtier is to murder a beloved pet or two. This leads me to surmise that he'd probably be much more stable if someone simply got him a kitten to play with...

[icon_uk]

Kalrion could lone him Teekl for a while?

[captainbellman]

Yes, I'm sure that would work out. After all, it's not like Teekl has previously done such outlandish things as turning into a cat-woman to please Klarion on a whim or psychically spying out new sources of power for Klarion to play with.

I was more thinking an entirely new little kitty to provide DS with a sort of Koko-the-Sign-Language-Gorilla companionship.

Although, then again, Dex-Starr might just do the job if he traded his red ring for a blue one...

[flint_marko]

Not too crazy about Desaad's New 52 redesign.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, skeevy, greasy-haired human who makes you want to have a shower every time you see him is a lot more unsettling than "oh look, another monster".

[captainbellman]

Mmm. Back when they were going to properly reinvent the New Gods for Final Crisis, I enjoyed Morrison & J. G. Jones' redesign, where Desaad became a creepy bondage freak wearing high heels and fishnets under his robe and putting Darkseid's face on his real-dolls.

[icon_uk]

That's being a little TOO specific IMHO, it's linking a particular fetish to the concept of absolute deviancy (with an admitted tendency towards the sadistic side) which Desaad is supposed to embody.

The nondescript grubby robes leave a lot more flexibility to the imagination as to what he MIGHT be wearing underneath (or not, as the case may be) so, as in Morrison's words about the Joker sexuality, "He's whatever freaks you out the most".

If this was "classic" Kirby Desaad, the band playing in the glass box would actually be in some sort of torment, and be able to see out at everyone smiling and having fun, apparently, at their pain, unaware that their outward appearance didn't match the reality.

[kamino_neko]

It's really odd. He's the only one who's gotten such a significant redesign. Orion, Highfather, Darkseid, Mokkari, Steppenwolf, Scott and Barda - even the Paradaemons...they had changes made, but were still completely recognizable as themselves. Desaad...when I saw the full cover, I figured this arc would feature Doctor Destiny, since it looked more like a more sinister version of him.

(...Well, the most significant, with the possible exception of Kalibak or Grayven, depending on of 'Darkseid's Daughter' in Vibe is a new character, or one of them with a genderflip.)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Am I supposed to feel pissed off about the cat? Because if I am, it's working.

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've been reading Scans Daily for years and this is the first time I've thought "there really should be a trigger warning on that." Plus, both of them seem a bit off. For a kid that's completely innocent, he sure picked up the concepts of righteous anger and vengeance pretty quickly, and Darkseid must have a lot of free time. It just seems so melodramatic and petty: "Look how EEEEVILLLL he is, he makes a child kill his pets." It could turn into something interesting if Desaad is playing a long game here and ends up trying to get revenge against Darkseid.

In my mental canon, however, right after the story, Golden Age Wonder Woman took them all to Paradise Island and brought both pets back to life with the purple ray.