The return of Nuclear Man

This week saw the debut of one of the most ridiculed villains in Super Hero movies. Nuclear Man was the creation of Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor in the much derided Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. The film that saw the Man of Steel bring an end to the arms race only for his old enemy to create an new foe. The film was crictised for it's cheap special and inchompisarble plot. The latter being the result of major edits to the film. One of these was concerning Luthor's first attempt at creation only for it to produce a rather dumb brute who was played by Clive Mantle best known for his role as Little John in Robin of Sherwood and in appearing in other TV shows like Casualty, Game of Thrones and Sherlock. Cinema goers got the second successful attempt as played by in his only acting Mark Pillow an ex Chippandale dancer and Hackman providing the voice of Nuclear Man. Superman defeats Nuclear Man by dumping him in an nuclear reactor. And for the last 31 years the character has been an embarrassment in the Superman canon. That was until current comic writer Brian Michael Bendis accepted a challenge to put the character in the pages of his current run and Bendis accepted. Nuclear Man is found to be in the Phantom Zone the prison where Krypton put it's criminal element.  Current Superman foe Rogol Zaar find Nuclear Man and the pair then have a fight to the death with Zaar emerging the winner. This time Nuclear Man has more bierf but more respectable appearance