Superman: Lois and Clark » Superman: Lois and Clark #1 - Arrival Part I released by DC Comics on December 2015.
As crazy as this sounds, I've never read a superman book before, so it honestly took me a while to figure out exactly what was going on. When I got into the groove of the story I found it very interesting and something that I'll definitely hang with through this arc. Thought this was a great way to start the story and am excited to see where they take the story from here.
Superman: Lois and Clark #1 is a strange patchwork of references and homages to prior Superman series. This in itself is not problematic; in an overly reductionist way, even Morrison’s All-Star Superman could be described as vignettes heavily inspired by Silver-Age stories and his own previous work on the character. With regards to Lois and Clark, however, such a description is not overly reductionist, but simply accurate. The connective thread which binds its uneven patchwork is itself to...
At first glance, I wasn’t sure what to make of this book. A new Superman book? But a Superman and Lois Lane book? But it is actually spun out of Convergence? It just seemed like yet another lackluster attempt at DC to just throw something out and hook people into reading something “new and different” but that was basically the same as everything else that came before it… But this book actually takes a different tact from the word “go!”. It really feels like s...
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