psychotime's The Man of Steel #5 - The Mirror, Crack'd... review

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    Nice Hair, Luthor

    Nah, I'm kidding. It looks ridiculous.

    Anyway, this is the last story in the paperback, and it's early Modern Age before the Dark Age! It sure looks like it!

    Luthor aside, this is an okay story. This is the first Modern Age appearance of Bizarro, since they removed him in the first Crisis. No speaking here, and no Bizarro World, either. He's an imperfect clone by Luthor (like in the DCAU). He the result because the machine that made him was programed to recreate human DNA, causing Luthor to learn that Supes is an alien of some kind.

    Bizarro goes rouge and flies around saving people, until he breaks into a clothing store to get a Clark Kent disguise. Supes shows up, but Bizarro isn't so friendly to the original.

    This issue ended appruplty to me. It just felt wrong. I felt that there was more that should have happened. But there were some parts really liked. Oh, and Bizarro dies in this one (and accomplishes a good thing by doing so).

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