ÉNTRENLE Greetings, folks. Continue our journey through the year 1990 and started with more than DC Comics, which gave them a real surprise to readers of Superman the last month of that year, when the editors decided to kill the oldest supervillain editorial: Lex Luthor .
The thing was more or less like this: some time ago Luthor wore a kryptonite ring to ward off a possible attack by the Man of Steel and also show off their green gem that looked good fashion , which he had was that, although radiation of this material only for immediate mortal native Krypton also ends up hurting humans if exposed to it for long periods y. .. Take it! The bald cancer is achieved Devil brand. They had to amputate the hand that had been using the ring (right), but that was not enough and his personal physician and lover, Dr. Kelley informed him that he would die later than one year was not going to go quietly so I planned something big. In the new continuity, Luthor began his fortune designing airplanes ... Well, actually started killing their parents and collecting life insurance, but designing aircraft was the first thing he did legal and bulky, so I announced to the world return to its roots by designing, building and manning a ship with that break the speed record, which was really only kamikaze mission and crashed in Peru (seriously, was Los Andes).
Superman was the first to reach the impact zone and death became official in one of the richest men in the world and the largest living Metropolis ... because that was the most interesting part of Luthor's death, he did not die unmasking the villain has always been, but in the minds of the general population was a man noble and necessary for financial stability. During the following months in the Superman titles showed how necessary it was Lex to Metropolis, perhaps more that Supes, since now the city is plunged into its worst economic crisis, leaving many people without jobs including his own Jimmy Olsen.
The surprises were just beginning, because a few months ago appeared the lost son of Lex Luthor and Dr. Kelley, known as Lex Luthor Jr or II , was almost identical to the parent, but obviously younger, hairy and bearded. Now, from the beginning there was something suspicious Luthor's death and the arrival of her offspring, and we never see the corpse of the father and Dr. Kelley was told in a chapter that should go to meet his new son. Soon the truth was revealed: Lex Luthor Jr was in fact the same Luthor, but in a cloned body by Project Cadmus. Readers knew that, but within the comics were all deceived and the new Supes Lex led to believe it was his friend, was aware of the evil of his father and wanted to help make things right ... and most importantly, also tricked Supergirl and even the eating walked the beggar.
Luthor II was in force until the mid-nineties, ie also during the death of Supes, at which time he became protector Metropolis with Supergirl, wearing a combat armor, but they really had become good and evil broke out shortly after when a disease afflicted all clones created in Cadmus and the new body of Lex started deteriorate. The truth of who was revealed and this time it was all his enemies, destroying the entire city in the process, the saga known as The Fall of Metropolis . He was defeated and fell into a coma. Soon after, the editors wanted to return the character to his roots and Lex made a deal with the demon Neron to retrieve his body and health, saying it was all a deception of Cadmus, which he had nothing to do with that clone liar and was innocent of all deceit and destruction, as often happens in the comic book heroes knew he was lying but the people of Metropolis to swallow it entirely , which sounds ridiculous until you see all industrial and political reality that we say and that I was not going mensa people believe him.
Finally, we end up with DC and now a mention of other companies. First in 1990, Harris Comics bought the rights to the characters of the defunct Warren Comics and therefore meant the return of Vampirella to cartoons. I long ago I talked at length about it so I mention them only to have it present. 
Then in 1990 the comic appears Men in Black, based on the urban legend of secret government agents who are responsible for the disappearance of evidence of extraterrestrial affairs. It was created by Lowell Cunningham and published by Arciel Comics. The original editor of the miniseries disappeared and the rights were purchased by Malibu Comics, which took another 2 miniseries. Surely, almost everyone knows Men in Black thanks to two movies with Will Smith, which I have understood that, as with many adaptations, only took a few names because theme is very different. As I said recently, Malibu was purchased by Marvel and Men in Black became his property, but they have only taken adaptations of movies, never a series regular. 
Turning to the independent comics in 1990 appears Madman Mike Allred. This is a government agent who died in an accident and, Frankenstein-style, two scientists return to life without knowing that it was given powers of mind and empathic , which manifests itself in very strange ways, and you can do things and know everything about a person by just touching it, to have glimpses of the future. Madman is not properly a parody, but if you drive a weird humor and even difficult to digest ... or so I have understood, because honestly there is something in the style of Mike Allred me away from their work. 
In closing, I do not want to mention one of the most interesting cases in the history of independent comics. In 1990 he began publishing Boiled Angel, a story of unknown authorship Mike Diana, a Florida artist who personally distributed in comic book stores, I have understood that more than a story, was a succession violent scenes , as mutilations that incest and other beauties. 
The few critics who read the comic identified as worthy of censure, but as a local publication would not have gone from being a good story until the matter was Kafkaesque. It turns out that two years later in the real world, the Florida police investigating a house where a murder was committed, located objects belonging to the criminal and one of them was a comic Boiled Angel. Mike Diana was arrested and indicted as the main suspect .
course, the poor dude had nothing to do with the crimes and was exonerated when the real killer was arrested, but police had made ridiculous and would not let him go so easily. A prosecutor will consider charges brought by adult material and although it seemed a clear case of violation of freedom of expression, the prosecution prospered and Mike Diana had to pay a small fee. But it does not end there, as the author did not back off, took another number of Boiled Angel even more grotesque than the previous and this time it went to pot (Although he dropped word), had to go to counseling and perform community service . There
more trials and more convictions, because Diana always lost and persecution was such that he decided to move to New York where he was received as a media celebrity and even a play was inspired by his case. While stopped drawing Boiled Angel, existing copies became cult item, are currently very expensive and almost impossible get, in addition to continuing to make bizarre drawings for some small publishers. Fun fact: addition to the aforementioned play, there is a chapter of the Law and Order (Special Victims Unit) where they find an independent comic in the house of a rapist, the crimes are identical to described in the story so the author was arrested, said to this chapter could be based on the story of Mike Diana, which would not be strange if we consider that the same writers of this series have stated that their scripts based on the headers newspapers.
for today's it, finished the Oscar nominations, but the actual voting will continue until Friday and then return to normal surveys. I notice that the award ceremony will be in the first week of May , before Kodak theater people learn that our check bounces. Goodbye.
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