Painful Villain #2

The great comic book heros are known by their villains. I say Batman, you say Joker. I say X-Men, you say Magneto. I say Superman, you say Lex Luther. What sets the truly great heros apart isn't just that they have a good villain, but that they have a great rogues gallery. Batman doesn't only have the Joker, but then you start looking at people like Ras al'Ghul, his always enigmatic relationship with Catwoman (though she's turned of course), Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and of course, the always fun Scarface.

Now, you look at Spiderman, and he seems to be the exception that proves the rule. I mean, yeah, he has one great villain. I'll tip my cap to the Green Goblin. I also like Kingpin, though I'm never sure if he's a Spiderman or Daredevil villain. After that though? You have Kraven the nauseating, a guy who is dressed up with a gigantic star for a hat, a moron who grafted a bunch of clumsy metal arms to himself... and then the great "revolutionary" villain was his old suit, after it grafted to a reporter. When they turned that buffoon into one of the never-enough-to-be-cursed anti-heros, they then found some way to spawn another version onto a psycho. When that wasn't enough, they made even more, for "Maximum Carnage".

Huzzah, huzzah. Now, that Rogues gallery is going to turn Batman green with envy.

Yet, as lame as all of them are, none of them compare to the horror that is the flying geezer himself... the Vulture

I'm sorry, he's got an ugly green costume, and looks like he should be resting on the porch of the Shady Acres Rest Home rather than trying to trade blows with a superhero. At the worst, he should be the guy who yells at the neighborhood kids for daring to ride their bicycles past his house. The indimidation factor just isn't there.

There's "suspension of disbelief," but that can only go so far. Put this idiot on a prune juice IV and send him his Social Security Check.

Tomorrow: The Worst of the Worst. He's incomprehensible, he had an awful "death", and with another "reboot" about to start, it's time to remember the worst of them all. Can any of you guess what buffoon is about to make an appearance?