YMMV / The Killers of Krypton

• Awesome Art: All artists -Kevin Maguire, Evan Shaner, Emanuela Lupacchino and Eduardo Pansica- are considered top notch among comic fans.
• Complete Monster:
  • Empress Gandelo is the monstrous head of the Trilium Empire. Gandelo is a delusional Knight Templar with a god complex and plans to purge the universe of all she deems a potential threat. To this end, she purges entire planets, including Colu, of all life. Gandelo also sent Rogol Zaar to wipe out Krypton and its inhabitants and later sends him to purge the universe of all surviving Kryptonians, including wiping out the city of Kandor. In addition, she secretly bankrolls Harry Hokum's horrific actions and experiments to get rid of Kara Zor El. Upon being confronted by Supergirl, Gandelo mocks her and gleefully attempts to psychologically break her. A raging egomaniac behind her hollow rhetoric of making the universe safer, Gandelo is even willing to let her loyal citizens die en masse if it means slowing down Supergirl.
  • Issues #25-28: Harry Hokum is a human who somehow ended up in the Vega star system and rose to become the leader of the fascistic Citadel. Under his leadership, the Citadel wages a bloody Civil War involving a rebellion led by the Omega Men, with entire worlds and races killed by the Citadel. Hokum blackmails Empress Gandelo into giving him the right to strip mine Krypton's remains by threatening to expose her involvement in its destruction, using technology he scavenged in experiments that left his personal laboratory filled with remains of vivisected aliens. When he captures Supergirl, Hokum takes her DNA to create a clone army to destroy the rebellion while throwing her in a labor camp. Luring the Omega Men with clones of their fallen comrades, Hokum uses clones to learn the location of their base and unleash deformed Supergirl clones on them.

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