Comics Corner: Superman - Red Son 2



Title: Superman - Red Son
Issue Number: 2
Release Date: July 2003

Highlights
  • Two decades have passed, and a lot has changed
  • We visit a museum where we're show a rogues gallery of failed villains created by Lex Luthor to deal with Superman; The Parasite, Metallo, The Atomic Skull and Bizzaro
  • Batman makes his appearance
  • Wonder Woman has become a peace ambassador for Superman
  • Lois takes over as Editor-In-Chief of The Daily Planet
  • Batman and Pyotr work together to destroy Superman
  • Batman captures Wonder Woman, ties here up with her own lasso and then battles Superman
  • Wonder Woman breaks her lasso to get free, but messes herself up badly in the process
  • J.F.K. shows Lex Luthor the alien that crash landed near Area 51 in the 40's - It's a Green Lantern Corps member
  • Lex Luthor puts on the Green Lantern Corps ring, knowing it's a source of power
  • Freedom fighters dawn the mantel of Batman to rebel against the Soviet Union
Low Points
  • Batman is a terrorist
  • Wait...So Lex Luthor and Lois didn't get a divorce? I'm confused by how the last issue stated this
  • Batman blows himself up to martyr himself
Oddities
  • Batman's mask incorporates an ushanka 
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 bat symbols grading system)




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