For some comedian guide followers, the information that Lars Eidinger had been forged as Brainiac for James Gunn‘s follow-up to Superman brings one phrase to thoughts: No matter Occurred to the Man of Tomorrow? The uninitiated would reply, “Nothing! Man of Tomorrow is the title of the Superman sequel and clearly it’s coming alongside fantastic!” However comedian guide followers know “No matter Occurred to the Man of Tomorrow?” because the title of a monumental two-part story by Alan Moore.
Revealed in 1986, “No matter Occurred to the Man of Tomorrow?” was meant to be the ultimate story of the Silver Age Superman, who was rebooted together with the remainder of the DC Universe with the Disaster on Infinite Earths crossover. The story options artwork by George Pérez and Silver Age Superman penciller Curt Swan and incorporates many parts from the Man of Metal’s most outrageous tales, together with an extremely upsetting subplot wherein Brainiac possesses Lex Luthor.
Lex Luthor and Brainiac are simply two of the villains who present up in “No matter Occurred to the Man of Tomorrow?”. In truth, the story reads like a grisly survey of Silver Age Superman ideas. As soon as light-hearted characters like Bizarro and Toyman turn out to be murderers, and we watch as Lana Lang and Krypto get brutally killed. Ultimately, we study that every part has gone mistaken as a result of the fifth dimensional imp Mister Mxyzptlk, normally a gleeful trickster who makes use of his reality-warping talents to play pranks on Superman, has grown uninterested in being mischievous and has determined to turn out to be evil. His first act of evil is popping all of Superman’s enemies into sadistic killers.
Upsetting as all of these parts are, they don’t have anything on two scenes involving Lex Luthor and Brainiac. It begins with Luthor touring throughout the arctic, not in contrast to he did in Superman, this time to seek out the physique of Brainiac, who was portrayed as a skeletal alien in the course of the Silver Age. Pondering Brainiac had died, Luthor lifts the robotic’s head and monologues about wanting ahead to dismantling his one-time ally in evil. However then, machine components start swarming over Luthor’s physique and his shouts of defiance flip into pleas for mercy. “I welcome you to the brand new Brainiac-Luthor team-up,” declares Brainiac in a chilly, robotic voice.
