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Warning : contains plunderer forAction Comics#1066!I can not believe that DC put a new twirl on a vista fromSuperman IIIthat sacrifice me nightmare as a tyke . The Christopher ReeveSupermanfilms were staple fiber of my childhood , and my intro to the Man of Steel . These movies were wedge - full of striking visuals , but one fromSuperman IIIis stark incubus fuel , and DC revivify it in fearful detail inAction Comics#1066 .
Action Comics#1066 is written by Joshua Williamson and draw by Rafa Sandoval and Miguel Mendonca . Brainiac is struggle the entire Superman category , as well as Lex Luthor . Lena Luthor is also on board Brainiac ’s ship , but she has been captured by the villain . Brainiac imprisons Lena in a web of wires and circuits . As the wires burrow into her hide , she plead with Brainiac to release her .
The Coluan refuses , saying Lena ’s nous will be used to process data he has acquired . And yes , the outgrowth will drink down her .
Superman III Isn’t Memorable, But One Scene is Nightmare Fuel
Sandoval and Mendonca pull no punch in depicting Lena ’s likely diabolic fate . The passel of Lena wired into Brainiac ’s ship is a perturbing optic – and one that finds sound reflection in 1983’sSuperman III , conduct by Richard Lester . In that film , Gus Gorman ( play by Richard Pryor ) is recruited by a high - technical school firm bleed by Ross Webster . Webster has construct a giant super - estimator , with the end of killing Superman . Towards the movie ’s climax , Ross ’ sister Vera steps a little too close to the computer . The electronic computer grabs Vera and pulls her into it .
What add up next is one of the most disturbing scenes in the entire franchise . As the computer drags Vera into it , it begins cut through her with metal and wires . In essence , the computer was incorporating Vera into it , in a summons that could be likened toStar Trek’sthe Borg assimilatinga human . Watching Vera be “ assimilated , ” potentially losing her identity operator and humanness , is enough to make anyone ’s skin crawl , butSuperman III’sspecial effects squad take it up a snick . The aspect terrified an eight - year - old me when I first watched it .
DC Made an Already Disturbing Scene Even Worse in Comics
Brainiac Is a Nightmarish Entity, and This Scene Proves It
Now , 41 long time later , the creative team behindAction Comics#1066 has delivered a somehow even more nightmarish take on this scene . Brainiac has hooked Lena up to his ship in lodge to use her as a “ data processing ” social unit . This is similar to what Ross ’ computer did to Vera , but Brainiac has no misgiving that it will drink down Lena when he is done . The book ’s artists do not shy away from depict Lena ’s “ absorption ” in all its perturbing glory , in the summons renovate aSupermanIIIscene that give me nightmares as a child .
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