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Hmmm. I lent Red Son to a co-worker, and he came out of it wanting to know more about Superman (like where he's from, etc) -- it was totally a Batman story to me, so I'm at a loss.
So I'm looking for a Superman: Year One that's actually good, and that way I'll buy it and lend it to him. I currently have no little resentment towards Byrne. I'll flip through it in a bookstore and see.
Thanks!
Yeah, "Man of Steel's" not half bad, really. And it certainly served its purpose--to simplify and update Superman's origin.
Yeah, "Man of Steel's" not half bad, really. And it certainly served its purpose--to simplify and update Superman's origin.
At the time I thought some of its little changes to the Pre-Crisis Superman canon were kinda neat...Clark being a football hero, rather than a nebbish all his high-school career. And some of it I thought was "Eh".
Dug the Batman/Superman first meeting in the series, but hated the villain of that issue.
I thought some of its little changes to the Pre-Crisis Superman canon were kinda neat...Clark being a football hero, rather than a nebbish all his high-school career. And some of it I thought was "Eh".
Yeah, the updates to Clark were really the biggest success there.
It seemed as if Byrne were using the George Reeves Clark Kent as his model, a choice that I heartily approved of.
The current reboot of Superman in Superman: Birthright will be out in HC at the end of the year.
Yipes. It's a big week for me at the store:
Good thing for the box discount, else I'd be feeling like I'm blowing my whole budget in one place.
Heh. I had lunch with my Dad, and it's become a pattern that, after we go to lunch, we go to Half-Price Books, which now has comics.
Dad succeeded in making me feel 11 years old (not in a horrible, will-need-extra-therapy kind of way): I found about 5 or 6 back issues of Robin for 75 cents each, and I was making squee noises. Dad asked, "What do you DO with all those comics?"
Me: "Dad, what do you THINK I do with them?"
Dad: "Well, I know you read them, but do you....KEEP them?"
Me: "Dad, I keep everything I read."
Half-Price Books had an Impulse TPB, but since I'm not a particular Bart fan, I didn't buy it.
Identity Crisis #2 (Of 7)
Nightwing #95
Oooooh.
Half-Price Books had an Impulse TPB, but since I'm not a particular Bart fan, I didn't buy it.
You know, the Impulse trade would probably cure you of that problem.
IJS.