Superman: Secret Files 2009

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This is from Superman: Secret Files 2009. It's written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Pere Pérez.


We see the flashback from Action Comics Annual #12 from Ursa's point of view.

Comments

[ghosty732.insanejournal.com]

You've got to appreciate when an author fleshes out a villain and gives them dimension they never had.

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

Nice, some character development for Ursa that makes me kind of sad for her. :)

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

This would be much more appreciated if I wasn't certain that it'll be retconned away within a few years. I mean, how many versions of Zod and company have we had so far? Four? Five? Six? You go to the Wikipedia entries on these characters and it's incredibly complicated reading, because just when you've wrapped your head around ONE version, up pops ANOTHER one. First Zod is from Krypton, then he's from Earth, then he IS from Krypton, but not THIS Krypton, then he's from Earth but with some sort of Kryptonian influence, and then... It just goes on and on. I'll start paying attention to the guy and his cohorts once they've firmly decided just who they actually are.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Yeah it's a little confusing, though this Zod is probably the most well-written of all the Zods.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Well, if he's still around in a few years, I'll pay closer attention to him. What I'm REALLY dreading is the inevitable point where the various incarnations of Zod team up. The Legion of Zods!

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

Crisis of Infinite Zods!

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

AAAH! I'm getting a migraine just thinking about it!

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

The Zod Squad?

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

*whimpers* Now I'm picturing a group of Zods in bad '70's outfits. Make it stop!

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

To be fair, this is the first "real" Zod post-Crisis.

Because DC went about making it so Superman was the sole survivor of Krypton, they did stuff like the Matrix-Supergirl and whatnot.

The first Post-Crisis Zod came from a Pocket Universe. The second Zod came fron an alternate reality created by Brainiac 13. The third Zod was a Russian who was affected prior to his birth by Kryptonite radiation because he was the son of two cosmonauts whose ship was too close to Kal-El's rocketship. The fourth Zod came from an alternate Phantom Zone.

This Zod is the Zod from Superman's Krypton.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

'Real' or not, that's still five Zods. That's too damn many Zods. Why can't they just pick a Zod and stick with it?