‘Brightburn’: Horror comes to Herotown

‘My template is drawn from Clark Kent but my real inspiration is Sadako.’ Photos: Sony Pictures

Hey, fellow longtime comic-book readers. Remember how, over the past decade or so, you would squeal with delight whenever some obscure but beloved character/artefact/vista would show up on the cinema screen?

Things like “OMG that’s Howard the freaking Duck!” or “Whoa! The Collector!” or “Wait – that’s the Cosmic Cube. What is this Tesseract B.S.?”