Superboy #16 - Triggers

I loved Batman's furry cape, it's so ridiculous, and even more so that  a serious character like Batman would wear it.  
 
It kinda reminded me of the furry cape Nite Owl wore in Watchmen. 
 

Lobdell isn't writing this book. Tom DeFalco is the writer for Superboy. It's right there on the cover.

Lobdell didnt write this...he hasnt written superboy in about 4 issues now.

@sweetesttoaster said:

Lobdell isn't writing this book. Tom DeFalco is the writer for Superboy. It's right there on the cover.

You'd think that a reviewer of a comic book would notice that kind of thing. x]

uno commenting on the issue by saying lobdell is writing this means i cannot take this review seriously and alot of others, how can you get this wrong?? ive noticed mistakes like this on babs other reviews aswell....

@Icon said:

@sweetesttoaster said:

Lobdell isn't writing this book. Tom DeFalco is the writer for Superboy. It's right there on the cover.

You'd think that a reviewer of a comic book would notice that kind of thing. x]

:)

That issue was bad :-P

I bought superboy for the crossover and i regret it!

Also as the previous commenters said this issue is written by DeFalco not Scott Lobdell :-P

Sorry! Lobdell is writing most of this arc, my mistake.

I thought this was a good issue it could been better, the fact you dont know who the writer is of this book make me doubt I take this review seriously.

I find it weird/ridiculous that Batman has the gadgets and smarts to take on (literal) gods, but doesn't have a suit designed for freezing temperatures o_O

I didn't read the issue, so maybe I missed something that prevented him from accessing it...?

it's not one of the best issues but you can't win em all.it's like this comic was just put out for the hell of it,it doesnt tell much story of H'el or anything.just random scenes of superboy and jla how they try to get in the fortress.batman's cape didn't bother me that much.

Haven't been reading the H'el saga at all except for few issues. And the look of it from all the reviews it doesn't seem that important either.

With Batman crossover going on at the same time this crossover feels really pale.

@Zoch81 said:

I thought this was a good issue it could been better, the fact you dont know who the writer is of this book make me doubt I take this review seriously.

What does having the wrong writer's name have to do with the review? It doesn't change how she feels about the issue and she obviously read it. Being that a review is just her opinion, it's up to you how seriously you take her, or anyone's, review on an issue. But just because she accidentally attached the wrong writer to the book doesn't invalidate the content.

Who's "Scott DeFalco"? Is that like Tom DeFalco who's name is on the cover? X]

Whether Sara got the name wrong or not has nothing to do with her review. It's pretty spot on. The art was lame and dialog was not the greatest by any means. Not that good of an issue. :/

I have to agree with the notion that the recap dialogue has overstayed it's welcome by now. If I am not mistaken, each issue has started with the same line of thoughts.

"My name is Superboy, I am a weapon [and how that is currently working for him]"

This issue was bad, can't fault the reviewer for thinking Lobdell wrote it. I miss Jeff Lemire-Superboy. It wasn't perfect, but at least it was good.

I have some different reasons but I came to the same conclusion: this was not a good issue.

Good job!

He'l on earth in general sucks. Scott Lobdell and Tom Defalco are fossils from an era we should all just forget

I'm not liking this crossover at all. Also through the entire thing I wanted to smack Supergirl. The art is really hurting the book for me. 

I just realized today that there are four DC crossovers going on right now. We have "Death of the Family" with all the Bat Family titles, He'l on Earth with all the Super titles, Rise of the third Army with the GL titles and the recent Throne of Atlantis with JLA and Aquaman. He'l and Third army seem to be getting a little long in the tooth. I'm interested in H'el's real motives but it's been a long journey getting there. It just feels like that the H'el and Third Army arcs didn't have enough meat on their bones to span across all these books.

Bah, the art AND the writing are both so misplaced for this book. I couldn't stomach it. I'm upset that Kenneth Rocafort's gorgeous looking view of all things Kryptonian is working in tandem with artwork that is so out of touch.

It's going to be a nightmare jumping from style to style when this crossover is collected.

Even though this is probably the worst issue in the crossover so far, it didn't feel like a chore to read.

(At least to me )

I'm a big superboy fan so this issue was really disappointing to me. Superboy didn't seem like he was acting like himself in this issue. Almost something I'd expect from pre-52 Superboy but not now. Also the lack of actual superboy, as was noted in the review, really put me off.

The BIG annoyance for me in this issue was the artwork. Superboy and Supergirl's faces in a couple of panels look really weird. One of Superboy comes to mind where he's supposed to be angry but it looks like he's just cracked and gone insane. The artwork by itself probably shot this issue down 2 stars for me because it almost made it a chore to read.

I completely disagree on your review of this issue. It was a lot of fun to read. I would have given it a five out of five. I think you are being too harsh on recent super crossover titles. They are overall all very enjoyable and deserve at least a four star rating.

I disagree with @Babs on this one. As someone who doesn't read the other Supes books, just Superboy, I needed the details DeFalco provided to understand what I missed in the other issues. Did I think the fur on Batman's cape was terrible? Absolutely! Was the art kind of generic, sure, but I think you are jumping the gun a bit on DeFalco not finding Superboy's voice. I've stuck with this title since the beginning, hoping it would improve and get back to the beginnings of the last pre-New-52 book with Conner heading back to Smallville. While it hasn't hit that level yet, I hope that by issue #18 (as I was reading will happen...) some direction will finally be given to the character. The only real part of this series that I started to like was the tongue-in-cheek celebrity life he was living and his interactions with Bunker. Everything else from the Culling to his beginnings in NOWHERE have been a pretty big miss. I'd like to give DeFalco the benefit of the doubt for the next few issues (don't get me started on how long this H'El storyline has been feeling) and see what he can do. If he doesn't deliver, I will drop my sub for sure.