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admonition : spoiler for Action Comics # 1063
Summary
DC officially confirm thatSuperman’svulnerability to thaumaturgy is an inherent Kryptonian weakness . Bizarro , Superman ’s foresightful - time competitor , is a backward and opposite version of his expansive counterpart . If conjuration makes Bizarro stronger , it let on the inherent nature of Superman ’s weakness to thaumaturgy . In a brooding geographic expedition of his own mind , Superman hunt a fragment of Bizarro as it grows stiff within him .
InAction Comics#1063 by Jason Aaron and John Timms , Bizarro has crop retribution for his home planet ’s destruction on an innocent Metropolis . swan a spell over the city , he transforms its occupant toBizarro reading of themselves — including Superman himself .
The Bizarro plague impacts anyone who may have had the sorcerous ability to quit the backwards villain , as well as Superman himself . With legerdemain - wielders like Dr. Fate and Zatanna under Bizarro ’s curse , the fighter is left with an unlikely mate — Bizarro Joker , who state Superman it ’s his strong-arm body that ’s weakly to conjuration , proving all Kryptonians are susceptible to magic , make water it a major failing and not just a vulnerability .
The three - part " I , Bizarro " story by Aaron and Timms begins inAction Comics#1061 .
Superman may have one of the most tragical origins , but his humble outset are nothing liken what ’s happening to the bottle city of Kandor .
Bizarro Is Strengthened by Magic — Meaning Superman Is Weakened by It
Bizarro Is Superman’s Opposite in Every Way
Superman ’s canonic vulnerability to trick was antecedently restrict . Though a direct spell cast on Superman has the power to cause him scathe , he is as invulnerable to as if by magic make physical object as he is non - magic objects . His extraordinary strength and power as compare to humans are a result of the yellow Lord’s Day ’s radiation . However , Kryptonians ' enduringness does n’t protect them from mind control or from deception . Some of Superman ’s rascal heading , and even other Italian sandwich , use this to their reward . Bizarro join the likes of Doctor Fate , Mister Mxyzptlk , and Shazam in change by reversal magic on Krypton ’s last Logos .
Bizarro Joker is a supportive allyin Superman ’s intragroup conflict . A reverse version of the Joker is a citadel of sanity , walking Superman through his internal mindscape in search of the Bizarro transmission . Though the shard of Bizarro in Superman is very modest , Joker explain that its magical nature will fortify Bizarro as it weakens Superman . The unconvincing friend goes on to protect Superman from the septic crew .
This magical infection does n’t counteract Superman the elbow room that kryptonite does . Instead , the infection grows in strength and sizing to countenance Bizarro to take over Superman ’s body . As this magical and viral Bizarro maturate , he battles Superman within the mindscape version of Earth . Out in the tangible Metropolis , Superman get away Joker ’s protection and physically battles himself to the decease above a crowd of bizzaro civilians .
Superman’s Only Hope Is in His Supreme Mental Strength
Internally , Superman tell Bizarro that his brain will never fail , so the scoundrel changes tack . Bizarro ’s advantage allows him to navigate Superman through his mental construct of the universe , destroy the sun , and take control . However , while Bizarro is drawing specialty from his fresh magical power , Superman can still draw strength from his ally . Bizarro Joker , a mirror of his common ego , vote down Bizarro in a battle of wit and sympathy . Joker ’s earnest encouragement is not intended for Bizarro , but for the weakened and immobilize Superman .
Superman take up control of Bizarro in turn , tracing the line of power in his spell to reverse it . An official weakness to thaumaturgy , rather than an incidental lack of impregnability to it , represents a innovational novel manner to target Superman . While a weakness to kryptonite can be much defended against , magic has no concrete or crystalline form to escape . This sorcerous infestation is just one way in which magic might invade the grinder . Supermanwill be gainsay in the future to protect himself from similar invasions .
Action Comics#1063is useable now from DC Comics .
ACTION COMICS # 1063 ( 2024 )
