The Most Bizarre Superpowers In Comics
comicsalliance.com by Chris Sims
This week, the first volume of “Chew,” the current indie darling from writer John Layman and artist Rob Guillory, comes out in trade paperback, and we can’t recommend it highly enough!
If you haven’t read it, the story follows the adventures of an FDA inspector called Tony Chu, who, as a “cibopath,” gets psychic impressions from the food he eats, which has led him to be the World’s Greatest Cannibal Detective.
Superman’s New Power
You’d think that Superman would have enough super-powers to be getting on with, but back in the Silver Age, he had even more. But none of them, not Super-Ventriloquism, not Super-Hypnosis, not even the strange Amnesia Kiss that he gives to Lois Lane in “Superman II” (which we’re fond of calling “Kryptonian Roofies”) compares to the new power he developed in 1958’s “Superman” #125.
Despite the cover, Superman’s New Power is not to shoot rainbows out of his hands. Instead, radiation from a crashed spaceship saps his normal powers and gives him the ability to shoot a foot-high version of himself out of his hands that has all of his powers.
Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer
The Brown Bomber’s “C.P.T.”
ADAM-X THE X-TREME’s Shocking Limit
Maggott’s, er, Maggots
The Anarchist’s Explosive Sweat
Gunfire — He IS a Weapon!
Arm Fall Off Boy’s Detachable Arms
LOL, this is a great compilation of the weirdest super powers.
Which one is your favorite? I kinda like the explosive sweat and the detachable arms.
