Superman #23.3 H'EL

[superfangirl1]

H'el has been thrust into the past of Krypton, a decade or so before its destruction. He's been found by a young Jor-El, who's been monitoring his comatose state for six months.





After H'el learns the truth that he was a genetic experiment that came alive being bombarded with as much different cosmic radiation in space. He goes on a rage murder spree and heat vision kills Zod.

Comments

[chrisdv]

Wouldn't this just create a time paradox? Or alternate timeline?

[shingi70]

How can he kill Zod if zod's going to be one of the upcoming Superman book rouges.

[shadowpsykie]

nevermind THAT he killed Jor-el!

[big_daddy_d]

Take it this all somehow gets undone after Return of Krypton arc.... that or it'll be explained that this is somehow an alternate/mirror universe.

[leoboiko]

1. Kryptonian society has mints, and breath mints?

2. "I have no interest in saving Krypton. I'm going to RULE IT." but then you have to save it first, no? or else you'll only rule over space debris?

(I never got this super-villain obsession with ruling. ruling seems a lot of work and very boring.)

[jlbarnett]

they want to be able to tell people what to do.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, the "breath mint" was what struck me as being just weird too... it's a very jarring cultural reference.

And the old 2000AD series Zenith (by Grant Morrison) had a great sequence where a wannabe world conqueror is confronted by the possibility of the sheer, brain numbing mundanity of actually ruling a planet.

Zenith (who isn't even the brightest bulb in the room) actually points out that "People like me could have taken over the world if we wanted to, but who needs the hassle?")

See also Moonstone confronting Graviton over what he REALLY wants out of life, and what he'll do if he achieves the power he craves, will he actually be HAPPY then?

[leoboiko]

the other day I was writing a Pokémon fanfic and I at least ~tried~ to have the character use metaphors and similes native to his world…

[espanolbot]

So he's a mixture of Doomday with the Fantastic Four?

[jlbarnett]

it's appropriate you mention FF cause he had me thinking the original Cyborg Superman who was created in a pastiche of the FF

[icon_uk]

I'd say that the Cyborg Superman was made out of a follow up darken-isation of what had been a rather interesting (if somewhat depressing) Fantastic Four pastiche one shot story.