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Tales of the Sinestro Corps. Presents: Cyborg Superman

By Koppy Mcfad
October 13, 2007 - 02:12

DC COMICS

This special is devoted to Hank Henshaw, the ill-fated astronaut who became the Cyborg Superman, the villain who destroyed Hal Jordan's hometown and who keeps coming back despite being obliterated numerous times. A large part of this book is devoted to explaining the character's convoluted origin, as told via flashbacks. The rest shows how Henshaw, backed by an incredibly powerful army, defeats the Justice League with Henshaw beating Superman himself. The creative team should be credited for even attempting to summarize Henshaw's back-story in such a limited space and then harmonizing it with the larger story of the Sinestro Corps invasion. (Frankly, DC Comics has revamped this character so many times, he risks becoming meaningless.) Henshaw's new motivations are a bit out-of-the-blue but they do make his character more dangerous and give him an agenda that stands out from the rest of the Sinestro Corps. The art suffers a bit in trying to tell too much in the smaller panels but it has an anguished, action-packed look. There is another scene of a villain fondling the body of his dead wife. Hasn't DC Comics been overusing the implied-necrophilia motif lately? Well, this issue still gets three out of five stars.

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