Something the 80s writers played with, making him a Blue Devil foe for a while. I hear he had a great appearance as a foe of Etrigan once too.

Yeah, I actually had to pause the DVR there and laugh for a full 5 minutes there.

I remember when CBS did a sitcom based on Dave Barry's column… he stated that they "gave me total creative control over how I cashed the check". I assume that's pretty much how ANY of these things work.

Exactly. I still remember his exchange with Firestorm in Earthdeath, when Firestorm wanted to manually transmute Earth' s CO2 to Breathable oxygen: "Do you know how many oxygen atoms are in Earth' s atmosphere? I can count them for you if you'd like."

You have to assume the fortress lights up like a Christmas tree on a technological survey of Earth, but the original comic at least explained it away as Superman having a public teleportation box in space where well-wishers could send him stuff. The fact that this never occurred to Brainiac as a stratagem has to…

In fairness, Superman calmly stating that he was going to drop the incapacitated Mongul into a Black Hole and call it a day in the comic was pretty hardcore too.

I really enjoy what Johns has done with the concept since in Green Lantern, ending with the Mother of all Mercies joining the Corps. Hal and Ollie' s little trip was fun.

The story definitely says that the bad elements are Clark fighting it.

Yeah, the whispered "Mongul" followed by the preternatural scream of it is POWERFUL… I wish they'd kept it.

But it's so ridiculously out of character for the DCAU Batman that it can't work.

You don't have to add the implication that Clark was fighting back… Batman and Mongul do it for you.

And to those who ask if the Joker ever does this to a male victim, I'd point out he does exactly this to Jim Gordon in the same issue.

Of course, the quote' s from Moore's third Swamp Thing issue, rather than Kingdom Come.

Yeah, that totally kills me every time too. Moore sells it slightly better in the original, but this still knocks it out of the park.

Oh thank God someone else remembered Down to Earth… I was starting to think that was a twitching, lemon-sized brain tumor of mine.

I could swear I remember a show called Down to Earth with this general idea with a female Angel, but I haven't seen any sign of it since I was about 7. Vivid hallucination, or not?

My favorite joke of the episode, although Zoidberg was a close second.

Well, they WERE there when she suicide bombed the city at the end of Secret War.

I kind of love that the Candy Kingdom uses taste tests as positive identification.

As said above, easily my favorite part of the episode.