Review – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #41
Ray: Mark Waid is a master of DC continuity, so it's no surprise that he easily shifts between tones and genres when he needs to. Last issue was a great done-in-one kaiju adventure and media satire, but this issue throws us right into a horror movie. Robin is alone on another world, being stalked by mindless monsters, and everywhere he turns, there's another one waiting for him. And the identity of these monsters? They am not Bizarros. That's right, we're on Bizarro World – but similar to how Jason Aaron approached the character when he did his arc on Superman: Superstars, the character isn't being played for laughs. This is a world where normal is considered aberrant and to be wiped out at the first opportunity – and three people from the normal world have just found themselves stranded here. Batman and Superman help to even the odds for Robin, but there's a much bigger problem waiting for them. Haunted. Via DC Comics.
See, there's a reason the Bizarros are even more tense than usual – the world is under a pandemic warning, and this mysterious virus has a horrific effect. It turns them…normal. They discover this from a terrified Jimmy Olsen Bizarro who has found himself speaking in coherent English and thinking clearly. This is a hilarious concept – except for the fact that the Bizarros view it as a fate worse than death and treat anyone displaying the symptoms as a cancer to be eradicated. It's a tense, thrilling issue as Superman struggles to synthesize enough Blue Kryptonite to fend off the marauding hordes, but the trio still finds themselves alone and massively outnumbered – until, potentially, they pick up some new allies at the end. Bizarro is a very hard character to get right, and one that rarely works for me, but this is an intriguing take on the concept that drives home how disturbing he can be.
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