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    The Man of Steel #5

    The Man of Steel » The Man of Steel #5 - The Mirror, Crack'd... released by DC Comics on 1986.

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    3.5 stars

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    Nice Hair, Luthor 0

    Nah, I'm kidding. It looks ridiculous.Anyway, this is the last story in the paperback, and it's early Modern Age before the Dark Age! It sure looks like it!Luthor aside, this is an okay story. This is the first Modern Age appearance of Bizarro, since they removed him in the first Crisis. No speaking here, and no Bizarro World, either. He's an imperfect clone by Luthor (like in the DCAU). He the result because the machine that made him was programed to recreate human DNA, causing Luthor to learn ...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Kind of a letdown after the first few issues 0

    This is the weakest entry so far in The Man of Steel miniseries - and it's still better than most of its contemporaries. As you can probably guess from the cover, this issue features the reboot of Bizarro. Once again John Byrne does a great job - the art is excellent, some of the best in the series, and his explanation for the creation of Bizarro seems both true to his original origin, and updated enough to be believable in a more modern context.Now the downside. Lois Lane's sister appears in th...

    2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

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