Again With The Klingons?

So, I'm perusing DC's February solicitations, when I come across this:

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #54
Written by JAMES ROBINSON
Art by BRETT BOOTH & NORM RAPMUND
Cover by BRETT BOOTH
1:10 Variant cover by DAVID MACK
“The Rise of Eclipso” begins here as the dark energies that have surrounded Earth are harnessed once more to usher in the great Lord of Darkness! And it looks like the corruption of all mankind starts with the members of the Justice League! When things go dark, which teammate poses the greatest threat to mankind – Obsidian or Jade?

Sigh....

It immediately put me in mind of this:



I mean, hasn't Eclipso been played out yet?

The problem is, DC essentially destroyed him as an interesting villain by constantly upping his power levels, to the point there's nothing to be done with him. He started out as a silly Silver Age lark, a Jekyll & Hyde riff in standard super-villain drag.

Then he was the basis for a line-wide crossover event, which retconned him into an evil vengeance demon, rather than just Bruce Gordon's dark half--a demon who was able to tempt and possess every single DC hero. He had just been "posing" as a B-level villain all those years to keep of the big guns' radar, you see.

Enough? No? Well, then they retconned him further, so that he wasn't just any vengeance demon; no, now he was the first embodiment of God's wrath. Yes, he was the Spectre's predecessor, the force that caused Noah's flood, pretty much all-powerful evil embodied.

Oh, and then it turned out that Darkseid created him. Because that's apparently way scarier than God's exiled Wrath.

Anyway, I'm not sure where else there is to go with Eclipso. Just looking at the solicit, we've already seen Eclipso possess the DC heroes; we've already seen him fight the Spectre (and seduce the Spectre...ewwww). He's already done the corruption of all mankind shtick. So what else is there? Where else can you go with an all-powerful evil who exists by corrupting? It smells like a re-run...again with the Klingons!

Then again, I'm older than dirt, so I know all these stories, while there's an awful lot of comics readers who haven't experienced this before, so this may all be new to them.

And maybe every generation is entitled to its own Eclipso story.