The Terrifics #20 Review

Writer: Gene Luen Yang / Artist: Stephen Segovia, Brent Peeples / DC Comics If me could turn back time… Who would have ever thought that an iconic Superman villain would be just the perfect match up for the Terrifics? Yang spent all of issue 19 explaining all of the machinations and motivations for Bizarro assembling the Terribles and journeying across the multiverse to confront the Terrifics, but out all of the dimensional hopping done in the series so far, this has quickly situated itself in my heart as one of the best starts to an arc. Although, this is also certainly helped by the fact that this is a surprised sequel to one of my favorite Superman arcs in recent memory as well. After the last issue’s exposition, Yang immediately jumps into combat and Segovia and Peeles do absolutely stellar work with the pencils. Mr. Terrible’s wrecking globe, Change-o-Shape’s incessant narcissistic shape-shifting, Disposable Man’s endless supply of disposable limbs, and Figment Girl’s strange materialization of imaginations are utterly bizarre (even by Bizarro and Terrific standards), but the visuals are grossly engaging and clearly telegraph the inverted power sets. In a single splash page, we get the essence of our primary antagonists which satisfyingly sets the stage to give our protagonists and Bizarro proper time in the limelight (or indigo darkness to invert the phrase).

And we can’t even talk about the truly wild moments that happen in the back half of the book because to spoil…