Absolute power corrupts absolutely … maybe?

That’s the question that lies between two tensions in Scott Snyder’s DC K.O. There is on one hand the idea that times are so dark (in the DCU and metaphorically) that what we need is for someone to rise up, to take control, to fix everything for us. (Some even think they’ve already found that person.) On the other hand is whether anyone can hold that power benevolently, whether anyone can save us without also destroying us.

It’s heady stuff for a book that, distilled down to its basest elements, might (unfairly) be called “just a fight comic.” But then again, what more fundamental element is there to the mainstream superhero comics than the fight scene?