This whole arc has been a total waste of my time. There is absolutely nothing in this whole story to make me even care one iota for this new Superman and his cast. We spend pages going over the same exact way of writing and plotting.What a boring,lackluster way to set up modern new 52 Superman.
This time we have imposter Superman and Supergirl fight. And he's beating her while the city looks on in horror.
General Lane sees a great opportunity to get rid of the alien and is going to send in the good, old airstrike. Lois is one the phone again. (rolls eyes)
When it seems like it is too late real Superman wakes up and swoops in and takes on the imposter. The city and Lois sighs in relief. Superman fights the imposter who turns out to be some nanite bug that sneaked into his suit five years ago. Yeah, that is our villain and that is why Clark/Superman was acting like a pining fool. So we had issues with a fake Superman and now suddenly must cheer when the "real" one comes in for a few pages.
I frankly do not like Superman's tone and his manner of speech and he sure is talking a lot, isn't he? So, we've given up the narrative boxes for him to jabber at us. Seriously, enough with the retroactive Superman already! This whole book makes me feel DC has cheated me and we have gone right back to the preaching Superman. Nothing about this guy makes me believe this could be the awesome one from Action Comics and he has a nerve to even infer he was somehow not a good person when he first came into the world and he had baggage and he is somehow better now. Ugh.
And here we have the Heather plot thrown out before it could get off the ground. What was the point of her again? And Lois has changed from the upbeat woman in issue one, who was happy and confident, to one who is pining and almost cyber stalking Clark/Superman. She is the one for him apparently.
I rate the whole story and arc 2 out of 5 stars. I frankly don't care to read this arc again. I hope the new team, Giffen and Jurgens, try to do much better than this. Get some consistency and clarity on how you see new 52 Superman. Write him modern too if you can. That means stop making him speak as if he is stuck in time twenty/thirty years ago. This a a job for Superman???Oh for crying out loud. And please, no moping, love sick Clark. No other A list character has lame cliches to set up the tone for their books. The only characters who remotely were of any interest were Morgan Edge and Sam Lane. Go figure.
Merino's art trumps Nicola Scott's easily. Scott has this very soft way of drawing and Superman looks better and sharper and tougher under Merino's pencils.
Art when Merino drew it was an easy 4 out of 5 stars.
Scott I will give 3 out of 5. She is not consistent.
Best Panel:None.
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