NEXT UP: LEX LUTHOR vs. THE JOKER….What a nightmare! I just imagined that we had spent the previous week in a puerile debate over who was worse: Augusto Pinochet or Fidel Castro. Thank goodness I woke up before I injured myself thrashing around in my sleep.

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