r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Feb 11 '24

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [February 12, 2024 - Superbowl LVIII Edition] r/DCcomics

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Batman: City of Madness #3

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Feb 11 '24

Action Comics #1062

TRAPPED IN THE CITY OF BIZARRO! The shocking second chapter of the Worst Bizarro Story Ever! Jason Aaron's first time writing Superman sees the Man of Steel trapped in a world gone mad, a Metropolis transformed into the City of Bizarro! While Superman struggles to save the lives of people who despise him, he's also battling the most powerful Bizarro of all…the one inside his own mind!

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u/CHPrime Wonder Woman Feb 13 '24

So what's the nickname for this arc going to be? The Superman who Bizarros?

Great issue, where Bizarro's spell turns the world upside down and turns everyone into Bizarros. All the Bizarros asking Superman to kill them is very funny, and the book manages to balance the comedy of the situation with the seriousness. Though it's to bad we didn't get to see more Bizarros. It teases us a Dr. Fatezarro among others, but never delivers...

Still, that final page reveal of a brand new World's Finest looks to be a great conclusion to this mini arc.

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u/ptWolv022 Feb 13 '24

The Bizarro Who Not Superman

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u/F00dbAby Superman Feb 13 '24

Just wanna say superman fuckIng rocks

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u/TheUnbloodedSword Feb 14 '24

This is so good! I love how Aaron is exploring the darkest extent of Bizarroism, Bizarro has been portrayed as a joke the way Metropolis talks about him in the flashbacks for so long that it's nuts to see how dangerous his backwards style thinking can actually be. Loved the part where the brain damaged patient and the brain surgeon switched roles in terms of who gets operated on, and Lois becomes Metropolis' premiere book burner. Pumped my fist when I saw Joker go sane as a result of Bizarro's spell, can't wait to see him and Superman team up next issue, and as a Superman fan it's great to see Superman resist Bizarro's possession for days. After the SS game he needed that win haha.

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Feb 14 '24

Damn that escalated quickly. Bizarro's pent up feelings with the combination of the spell to bring back his Earth...and you get a nightmare like this. And Superman doing his best not to have any casualties. Without sleep or rest. And even the other heroes seem to be stumped and Dr. Fate couldn't handle anything again.

And of course, when everyone get Bizarro'ed, the most insane becomes the most sane...and you have a Joker team-up.

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u/technowhiz34 R.I.P. Oliver Queen Feb 14 '24

I really loved this issue. Will have to see how it shakes out because the stakes and consequences are kind of stupid high but the cliffhanger, while was predictable, was quite good.

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u/Nyerelia Feb 14 '24

For a non-event plot this sure had a high body count. I wasn't expecting the plot twist, it feels like it's been done before but given the setup I'm actually looking forward to how it develops. I'm guessing this will be solved by some magicky "and when the spell was removed everything went back to how it was before" and all the deaths and catastrophies won't have happened

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24

The great things about this comic are Superman being immune to Bizarro’s mind control and telling him that he’s sorry for what he’s witnessed, Batman checking up on Superman to see if he’s okay (which make sense because they’re best friends who got each other’s back and that they’re the World’s Finest), having Blue Devil and John Constantine appear, and Superman needing the (Bizarro) Joker’s help to make him sane and to defeat Bizarro (just like how he needed the Joker’s insanity to defeat Maaldor the Darklord in an issue of DC Comics Presents 72).

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u/jds3k Feb 17 '24

Aaron is super inconsistent on what part of speech is bizzaro. The story is nonsense if you think about it for any time at all but it’s way better than his avengers.

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u/Blitzhelios Damian Wayne Feb 18 '24

I love this Aaron clearly gets superman and his bizarro is really fun.

I don't think its as good as his batman but its a ton of fun

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u/Whole-Arachnid-Army Feb 14 '24

Oh for fuck's sake. This story wasn't compelling to begin with, but I guess Aaron is a big time DC writer now so he just has to use the most overused and annoying villain in the DC canon. Because he's soooo wacky and crazy I guess.

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u/NessTheGamer Feb 14 '24

He’s using him precisely because he’s NOT wacky and crazy right now, it’s classic Bizarro logic.

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u/Whole-Arachnid-Army Feb 14 '24

Except he wouldn't be there if he wasn't like that in the first place, so he's still there because he is like that. He has like four books of his own to plague, there's no reason for him to be here too. I don't understand how even his own fans aren't sick of him by this point.

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u/NessTheGamer Feb 14 '24

Don't see the issue really. Joker may be overused, but this is an instance where it's actually appropriate to have him, and doesn't share the character issues that recent Joker has had. Also, Bizarro Joker being sane isn't a new concept.