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The Preposterous Plan to Destroy Our Planet with a Superman Video Game

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[Warning! I'm about to spoil a Jimmy Olsen comic.]

Some villains try to destroy the Earth with giant lasers; others prefer anti-matter. Not Sebastien Mallory. He's going to use a Superman video game.

And here's the most unbelievable part of the plot revealed near the end of late March's Jimmy Olsen one-shot from DC Comics: His plan only works if the Superman video game becomes the most popular video game in the world.

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Laughable.

But kind of clever too!

Credit comics writer Nick Spencer, the guy who had Captain America comment on Wikileaks last week, for this wonderfully ridiculous plot.

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Apologies to those of you for whom I spoiled the twist in the month-old comic. Buy it anyway. There's plenty of other great material in it. It's one of the best comics of 2011 so far.