Oh, Despero will be back in five minutes. There's no question of that.
If this story is even acknowledged in a year's time (and personally I'd rather it be forgotten about entirely), we'll hear that decapitation is *not* fatal to whatever-alien-race Despero belongs to, merely somewhat inconvenient. Whatever.
Now, I enjoy the brief glimpse inside Starro's mind, but really? Nothing about this -- ham-fisted retcon of turning one of the most original and unique characters into DC's 1,000,000th alien conquerer -- is worth my time. And I'll be pretending it doesn't exist. *nods*