Somehow, some way, the villain known as the Parasite has managed to walk, skulk, swim and crawl his way all of the way from Metropolis to somewhere he really doesn't know, and really doesn't want to be.

Slaughter Swamp.

"Hyurrr..." He puts his deformed hand to his head. He has travelled all of this way in an almost hypnotic daze, inexorably drawn to ( Read more... )

The Parasite is very, very hungry. Having been locked up for the best part of three months since the entire Brainiac incident, he's not had any decent contact with a delicious metahuman since that time, and good grief does he want to taste some power. The fun thing is, nobody knows he's even escaped from Stryker's Island Penitentiary ( Read more... )

An army tears down Broad Street in Philadelphia, looking like something out of an apocalyptic movie. Some brave civilians run up the costumed characters. Some are familiar. Is that Dr Mid-Nite? Is that Flamebird? Where did they come from? Why are they doing this ( Read more... )

The spaceship, it's nice, he guesses. It's not the best digs he's seen, most of it not to his liking at all, but some of the decorations are tasty ( Read more... )

Professor Milton Fine is waiting outside the Daily Planet, leaning against the wall with his hands in his pockets. He's waiting for someone in particular. Lois Lane. Brainiac's always known that Superman is Kal-El of the House of El, and that Kal-El is Clark Kent. He's never used that information against him, of course, because to do so would be ( Read more... )

The Bug glides silently through the sky, approaching a warehouse address discovered from leftover technology recovered from an android copy of the Toyman. An android constructed with Coluan technology, as a matter of fact ( Read more... )

((continued from hereKon looks down onto where Parasite landed, the dust settling around him, sparks popping where the electrical main running through the collapsed floor was severed ( Read more... )

In Philadelphia, a man in a trenchcoat walks into a nuclear power reactor.

That's not the punchline. Parasite knocking out the wall and heading out into the street to cause some chaos - that's the punchline.

Awww, YEAH! Man, been a while since I got to knock back like this! Friggin' Metropolis! At least here they got a good cheese steak...