When
you think of the Man of Steel a whole plethora of sinister and powerful
villains come to mind, Darkseid, Bizarro, Brainiac, Lex Luthor, and whilst all
of these characters bring out something different in the big blue boy scout it
is only General Dru-Zod who holds a mirror up to him. Zod is the flip side to
the same coin as Superman. He is the reflection of how Earth would be different
if it was another Kryptonian who had fallen to our planet, or if Ma and Pa Kent
hadn’t been the ones to find baby Kal-El. Zod is the fear inside Clark that his
power may corrupt him.
Zod
was originally a small time Superboy villain. It wasn’t until the movie
Superman II when actor Terence Stamp brought the character to life on the
silver screen that he got a creative boost comic side. Now some of the best
comic creators have taken the reigns of the Kryptonian General, from John Byrne
to Steve Gerber, and Geoff Johns and Jeph Loeb, all of them have had him face
of with the last son of Krypton.
But
now with the release of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie we are left with only
two options, we either take to our knees to kneel before the feet of Zod or we
stand up and meet the new face of the General. Either way it is up to us
Thoughtballoons writers and all those who want to enter the fray at home to
choose.
