Well this has been a strange year for the Superman
franchise. On the one hand it
enjoyed what has been easily the franchise’s best live action installment since
Superman 2 in the form of CBS’ Supergirl. On the other hand, it was struck a possible deathblow by the
worst live action Superman entry of all time in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, a film so bad it killed any
future plans for more Superman movies.
Given my maniacal obsession with topicality and the fact we’re still
talking about Superman related things I figured I’d jump on board with a look
at Superman’s greatest foe Lex Luthor.
Lex Luthor is one of the most well-known and oldest super
villains of all time, first being introduced in 1940 and working his way
through numerous live action and animated adaptation. In the 70 plus years of his time in the comics he’s gone
through numerous changes and re-imaginings, some terrible, some brilliant, some
meh and we’re going to dive in to get the full spectrum on all of them.
