Living in Bizarro World
Living in Bizarro World The point of Bizarro World is to make the real world appear so chaotic, so dangerous, so uninhabitable, that we will happily give ourselves over to the Technocrats who promise to make it all better. KAREN HUNT AKA KH MEZEK Do you ever get the feeling you’re living in Bizarro World? I do. Every day this world gets more and more bizarre. Bizarro World (also known as Htrae , which is "Earth" spelled backwards) is a fictional planet that first appeared in American comic books published by DC Comics in the early 1960s. Htrae is a cube-shaped planet, “where nothing is true, and all is spectacle”. In Bizarro World, everything is the opposite of what it’s supposed to be. Bizarro , the antithesis of Superman, lives on Htrae, as do perverted versions of Lois Lane and other antiheroes, such as Batzarro, the World's Worst Detective. Society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states: "Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugli