Bizarro World by Various
Better Than The First!!!! Me Am Like!!!
Where else could the worlds greatest alternative cartoonists run rampant
through the DC Universe in an all-new anthology of utterly unhinged
stories and art? It could only happen in the BIZARRO WORLD! This 200-
page volume features work by many of the fantastic creators who worked
on the BIZARRO COMICS book (and made it an award-winner)!
Personal Review: Bizarro World by Various
Bizarro World had a lot to live up to following in the footsteps of the award
winning Bizarro released several years ago and well... it fell short. The new
Bizarro book is excellent but just not as memorable as the original. The
Bizarro books (can it now be called a series?) use popular alternative
cartoonists to create short stories featuring characters from the DC
universe from icons like Superman to obscure characters like Kamandi.
Here are some of my favorite stories from Bizarro World.

In "The Wonder of it All" a high school aged Wonder Woman learns that
using her new Golden Lasso to force her friends to give their honest
opinions about her nets her more information than she wanted.
The Spectre/Jim Corrigan unleashes his ghostly vengeance on his fellow
officers at the police station for such minor infractions as hogging the copy
machine. It's actually pretty funny.
Green Lantern has a revelation about his weakness to the color yellow in
"It's not Easy Being Green". The story seems like a homage to the old EC
Mad magazine comics.
In "The Power of Positive Batman" Bruce Wayne finally resolves his issues
with the murder of his parents and decides to retire and sail around the
world. Clark Kent decides to join him and the two sail off.
Aquaman decides to attend open mic night and sing a song about his
relationship with Mera. Like a lot of the stories this one is just sort of a slice
of life tale showing the private lives of superheroes.
Tony Millionaire returns with another strange Batman story. His art has a
very old gothic style to it as if the story were something dug up from the
40's rather than a brand new tale.
In "Personal Shopper", Alfred is out describing, to a mechanic, the
specifications for a car he wants to purchase. You know, bulletproof, 200
MPH, space for rocket launchers, huge bat like fins on the rear. Wonder
who that might be for?
There are also some clunkers in the batch. Lantern Sentai in particular
seemed pointless besides showing the Lantern Corps as Manga. In "Jing
Kal-El" the Superman origin is rewritten with Kal landing at the North Pole
and taking on the mantle of Santa Claus. I just couldn't figure out why.
Some of the stories just stopped as if they're meant to be continued in
another edition of Bizarro. "Bizarro Schmizarro", for instance has Luthor
change Bizarro no. 1024 into a normal looking Superman (save for the
Question mark on his chest) and then the story stops with a promise of
more to come.
Bizarro World is sometimes great and sometimes not so great. It's less
than the original book but I still recommend it. The Bizarro series has a
long way to fall before it can be considered average.
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