As pointed out a while ago, the hottest trend was Evil Superman. Now we have a new trend which is the Good Guy-Bad Guy-Reformed Good Guy trend. It started with Wraith, now it looks like Ulysses is one, and judging by how Wonderstar reacted he's gonna be one too. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed it?

Nah, like evil Superman that cliche exist for a long, long time.

That's not what I meant. I know both are cliches (and to be honest what happening in a Big 2 big isn't a cliche?) but it's that it's happening too much at once.

Nah, DC and Marvel surprices us sometimes by creating something worthwhile for a change, but most of those are from B or C-listers titles that are tackled without heavy DC editorial influence, for example, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing etc.

Anyway I really don't think it is a new fad but mostly a coincidence. At least I hope so.

Ulysses is deep down more interesting...at least for me. Imagine if you have adopted parents, you have to choose whether you want to follow your adopted parents who take care of you since you were child or your real biological parents

Ulysses isn't bad, he's misguided. As far as Wonderstar, he's not a good guy.

Same can be said for Wonderstar techniquely , he was been sincere when Wonder Woman had him tied with her rope

@saint_wildcard: nah, she said he wasn't hiding anything and he wasn't. The helmet brought his memory back.

Wraith wasn't a reformed good guy though?

He took the bullet for Superman and stopped his own people from taking over.

Point taken, but I stand on Ulysses. He pretended to save the day with Superman and his plan is an evil one that Superman has to stop which he had fully planned on doing. No if ands or buts. But you got me thinking that Magog might not be Good-Bad-Good guy. It seems like his memory getting wiped was a plan so that WW couldn't read him. If that's the case I'm going to miss Wonderstar T-T

@saint_wildcard: it's better than the evil Superman thing though.

Neither of those two things are fads.

Υοu can't deny the "Evil Superman" concept was overused the last three-four years.

Both Ulysses, Wraith and Wonderstar were a given that they would turn evil.

Wraith was such a bipolar character that even in the end I wasn't sure why he did what he did. It's anyone's guess.

Ulysses the very moment he told his parents to not go to the ship, he basicaly showed his cards. From that very moment it was certain that everything that he said since the beginning was lies and half-truths. Not only that, but the very fact that we were told that Superman was gonna go through a few changes at the end of the arc, it was almost clear has water that something was gonna happen, something serious. Add to that the fact the both Ulysses and Superman were always being watched by that male figure and the clues he gave, all lead to me believing that Ulysses was gonna turn on Superman.

Wonderstar is Magog. I suspected that from the moment I saw the cover of the issue showing Magog. How could they simply go from Wonderstar to Magog in one issue!? Simple. Wonderstar was nothing more than a mask, and has we've seen, it proved to be what really was. The only question in all this is why Circe decided to intervene now and why. And what are Magog origins. In the past he's been a time traveler and the avatar of the god Gog. Now, his origins seem tied to Circe, but most likely they're either allies or she gave him his powers and is using him to reach her goals, which are almost always very simple. Either she hates Wonder Woman and wants to destroy her and everything she loves or like the others that came before her, she fears what their union might bring.

Either way lately Superman has been in a bad luck streak. Almost everyone he meets proves to be trouble. If I were him I'd blast my heat vision to the face of everyone that wants to meet him. Seeing that in 9 of 10 times that person will bring about trouble or turn to be trouble.

@saint_wildcard: comics is nothing if not a series of trends

Not sure about the newest, but one that seems to have died down was the one where writers were trying to bring out the inner angst of Superman.

.... wut? I don't care if other books do the same at the same time, but when the same story happens to the same characters, then we have problem.

I don't think the same will happen with Wonderstar, who is actually Magog. The reason why I am thinking that is because Magog has always been a bad guy and I don't think DC will be changing that anytime soon.