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A little peek at the art from issue #13 by Gleb Melnikov.
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I've enjoyed the Venditti run on Man of Tomorrow. The stories were pretty basic but they were fun, engaging and universally accessible to every type of reader. I also enjoyed last week's issue which had 2 different stories by the same writer. The Jimmy one was slightly predictable but highlighted Jimmy's resourcefulness and integrity and the second story dealt with Superman's powers in a fascinating way. Wioska almost reminded me of the Supreme Kai from Dragon Ball.
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Both stories are written by Jeff Parker. First one is about some underground creatures attacking a mine and the second has Brainiac unleash a monster on Portland airport.
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Just read Van Jensen’s stories, I liked both of them! Wouldn’t mind seeing more Superman work from him. One thing I really like about this book is how many writers have been leaning into the journalism angle.
It’s not the Parker run on the mainline books I want, but I’ll take it.
Edit: Just read the previous issue before that. The first one was cliche, I guessed the twist the moment I saw the Twitch hero, gorgeous art though. The one by Dave Wielgosz though was great! I loved the training arc, but I particularly loved the analytics about Superman’s powers:
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Felt like a nice counterargument to the “absolute power corrupts absolutely” cliche.
Last edited by Vordan; 06-29-2020 at 12:17 AM.
Van Jensen did some nice work, he and Venditti leaned heavily on the use of journalism in their stories which was a nice change of pace. I wouldn't mind more Superman work from either of them.
I know you've been after a Jeff Parker run on Superman so I was expecting a comment from you about this. They look pretty good, normally I wait for some opinions and reviews to come out before I buy a digital issue but for Parker I know the writing will be good so it's a guaranteed early purchase.
So Superman is now Goku? Have we gone full circle?
Parker’s stuff was a fun Brainiac two-parter. One idea that I think should definitely make its way over to the main books, is that Brainiac gets a reason to keep coming back to Earth: Using Earth as a place to test out his experiments. It lets you have Brainiac vs. Superman stories without it necessarily needing to be a planet wide threat.
Training =/=goku. Superman used to workout in goldenage age. Besides that, how the training is portayed is the judge of quality.I don't know why people have a problem with superman's muscles being real,than hot air. The sun explanation has always undermined the physicality of the character.