Reading this book is a chore. I love to READ. I love George Perez. But this book is a chore to read. It's long winded, boring and repetitive. Issue number three might have well been number one and/or two. It follows a very old school formula that is very out of sync with a modern Superman. This is not the man of tomorrow. It's the man of yesterday. He does not feel like a young man of today. The dialogue is clunky and retro. Again. We get monster/freak of the month. Again. We get long winded exposition from the news team and Clark. Again. We get Superman acting like a slow top when it comes to his powers.
In a nut shell, the news-team wastes pages to recap Superman's early days and while they all realize he is on the side of good, the amount of death and destruction and bad guys he attracts...is he a Messiah or Menace? We see Heather Kelly and of course, we wonder about her role. She is set up predictably as a blond Lois-lite. But by story's end, we are not sure if she is friend or foe.
Superman fights an ice entity this time and let's say I cringed all the way through the battle at his inner monologue and his dialogue. Just shut up and do what you have to do for crying out loud!
Three things noted in this issue.
1. Superman likes to say repeatedly... "No!" or "Oh no!" or "Lois!" Along with his clunky speech/thoughts, it's like nails on a chalk board.
2. Lois and Heather have retinal issues. Yeah, DC , those purple eyes make Lois look weird like she's possessed.Least Heather is alien from the look of things..
3. Superman remains dense. He fought alien entities who mentioned Krypton and he says it's a mystery for later. Oh that advanced genius brain. When one said it, didn't he consider it was strange. When the second one said it, still it wasn't mysterious. Third time's a charm.
This book I give frustrating 1.5 out of 5.
Nicola Scott's art was nothing special. This is not her best work. She does not make the costume look any better than Merino. I would say Merino's Superman looks better by far.
Best Panel : I could not even decide on one really cause this book really did not make me care. The homage to Action Comics with him trying to stop the locomotive to me was the best.
