This week is going to be dedicated to the darker imitations.
T While a couple of these
dudes aren’t bad, they do have qualities that are a bit worrisome to others
around them. Then, you get to the unrepentant sons of guns. These nutjobs I’ll
get to this week don’t care about nice stuff. They’re selfish, psychotic, and
all-around not very nice.
First up is Ultraman from DC Comics. He is from an alternate
Earth (either Earth-3 or an Anti-Matter Earth) and is part the Crime Syndicate
of America, an evil version of the Justice League of America. You got to see
some of his badness back in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond. Yeah, he was the
version of Superman who was about to pop a vein in every panel he’s in. The
original Earth-3 version has recently made a return in the New 52. Forever
Evil, DC’s first major crossover in about 2 years (not counting crossovers
between the Superman and Batman families), brought back the original group with
a few exceptions.
In the event, the Justice League is taken out by the
Syndicate. The Syndicate then takes over the world and tries to get all of the
villains to side with them. Only a few folk like Batman, Lex Luthor, Captain
Cold, and Black Adam are left to stand against the team. The event was okay for
the most part, but I might get to that some other day. Justice League #24 was a
tie-in to the event and featured Ultraman as the main feature. The man known as
Geoff Johns penned the issue. The awesome pencils (yeah, I liked it) is
provided by the awesomeness known as Ivan Reis.
Justice League #24
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Ivan Reis
Inks: Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, and Eber Ferreria
Colors: Rod Reis
Letters: Nick J. Napolitano
Editor: Kate Stewart and Brian Cunningham