HERO OF THE WEEK: CYBORG SUPERMAN (DC)Real Name: Hank Henshaw
First Appearance: Adventures of Superman #466 (May, 1990)
Fight Club Ranking: #769
Featured Fights:
- vs GREEN LANTERN CORPS & JUSTICE LEAGUE: Green Lantern #25 (Jan 2008)
Man alive! It's comics! DC are playing some familiar old tunes in the latest issues of Action Comics, and it's sweet music to my ears! Dan Jurgens is back, keeping it simple and classic with the formation of an all-new Superman Revenge Squad who represent an all-star line-up of Superman bad guys!
The entire line-up is pretty damn compelling! Mongul, Metallo and Eradicator are seasoned villains with big appeal! General Zod is on the verge of escaping the Suicide Squad, to be their latest star recruit! The one that has me most excited though is the mastermind of the team: Cyborg Superman!
Cyborg Superman is just one of those second-tier villains I get a real kick out of!
He's been sorely displaced since The New 52 reboot, losing the "Cyborg Superman" mantle to Supergirl's dad, Zor-El, who was rescued from Krypton's destruction by Brainiac. The result was a new cyber-organic nasty. A neat concept if you don't mind another survivor from Superman's long dead homeworld, but no substitute for the simple pleasure of Hank Henshaw!
The Henshaw Cyborg is kind of a dunderheaded concept: Astronaut suffers cosmic accident in Fantastic Four pastiche that slowly kills he and his colleagues. Superman is indirectly tied to the solar flare that caused the accident. Henshaw downloads his brain into a computer to become a ghost in the machine. He eventually hacks his way into Superman's birthing matrix and constructs a body of organic and metal components. Briefly impersonates The Man of Steel after his apparent death.
You just can't beat that kind of accumulated history, though. His return gets better, too!
To fight a Revenge Squad you need a Superman Squad, and that means a reformed (yeah, right) Lex Luthor leading a band of heroes that includes another favourite from the early 90s: Steel!
Sometimes it's the simple things in life that are the best. The current run for Action Comics seems to be just that. Don't take my word for it! Check out CBR's May preview for Action Comics #980!
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