have published an analysis of the most recent trailer for Zack Snyder’s hugely-anticipated Superman reboot Man of Steel and, along the way, spoiled a plot point…and thrown yet more confusion into one of the most already-confusing elements of Kryptonian culture. Read no further if you don’t want to be spoiled.In the course of the last trailer, there was a brief glimpse of something that ComicBook.com (and a number of readers) had speculated might be Starro, perhaps setting up for a future Justice League movie. The tentacled creature, appearing in the sky above Metropolis, is actually Black Zero, according to Entertainment Weekly.”It was prison ship that he retrofits,and that’s what he comes to Earth in,” says producer Deborah Snyder, with the article hinting that the Phantom Zone either doesn’t exist or at least doesn’t work the same way fans remember from the Richard Donner films.The most likely scenario seems to be that Zod’s Black Zero ship is an iteration of the prison from the Superman: Last Son of Krypton trade paperback, which saw Zod attack the Man of Steel with an army of Kryptonian criminals freed from a floating prison in the Phantom Zone. An exerpt from Superman: Last Son of Krypton will be included in DC Comics’s Free Comic Book Day offering this year, which also features some of Scott Snyder and Jim Lee’s Superman Unchained #1.So–who’s Black Zero in the comic books? That depends on who you ask. Personally, I asked the DC Wiki, who could help me separate the various iterations in my head.
