Finally got to the LCS yesterday.
And yeah, this was everything I expected, hoped for, and wanted.
If the New52 t-shirt Superman woke up one day to realize that he was 50, past his prime, and hadn't achieved his goals....it'd be this guy right here. And since t-shirt Superman is spiritually just the original with a fresh coat of paint and new sparkplugs, S&tA is really the original Superman examining his own modern failure and the false promise of the Silver Age peak. It is meta and self aware as f*ck. Old Man Kent. And I f*cking love it. Sorry to those who aren't feeling it, but I'm SO down for this.
And that art, am I right? Janin and everyone just nail this. Talented bastards.
I think Janin makes Black too pretty and handsome, but that's whatever. And I find I'm really getting attached to the costume. I feel like everything we need to know about this Superman, the costume tells us. Sleeves up, ready to finish what he started, the New52/OG cut. But in Silver Age materials and modern Age flourish, bearing the shield of another old Kent who was past his prime and trying to make up for lost time.
Morrison's take on Black is arguably too meta for its own good. I feel like Morrison gets the gist of who Black is, but they write dialogue in exclamations and commentary, and that doesn't jive with the Guy Ritchie quips we're used to. Close enough for me, but I definitely see why it grates on other folk.
People always get jittery when Clark decides to actually *do* something. When did we forget that Superman was supposed to work to change the world?