Saturday, August 25, 2007

Zibarro

I have just finished All-Star Superman #8 and enjoyed it a lot, especially the character Zibarro.

Despite superficial appearances and Zibarro's own proclamations, I think he is an opposite of Superman like regular Bizarro, only in subtler ways. He gives up easily while Superman perseveres, he despises the other bizarros while Superman -basically an alien god- loves and appreciates normal Earth people, and so on.

Finally (this might sound far-fetched, but let's remember that Morrison has a penchant for playing with the fourth wall) while Superman is a character in a story, Zibarro is himself an author of stories. At the end of the issue, he is tasked by Superman with writing the events that have just transpired! Maybe the whole issue has been written by Zibarro?

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