Comments on: Review: Superman #681

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:59:50 +0000

Orgullo Says:
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
Stephen – love the site brother. Truly. But “saving the spoiler” on a site called, wait for it, “Major Spoilers”? If anyone gets a tizzy coming to this place and reading a spoiler then they’re on their own. Please.

AMEN, Orgullo, amen.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:59:51 +0000

The current president of the USA in the DCU is not W, if I recall…the one we see in this issue is, I believe, president Horne, the same whose plane got hijacked by Wonder Girl and Supergirl in Amazons Attack. But maybe Guedes was trying to make him a Bush caricature, I couldn’t say.

Robinson’s still a very good storyteller, and while reading I couldn’t wait to see what would go wrong (because something had to go wrong). The twist at the end was a “oh snap” moment, but it’s true that guy has been a bit overused. Poor Doomsday…that whole “man who squished Big Blue” thing is really sticking to him…

On the other hand, it makes you shudder to think of the resources General Lane has ; because obviously, he and his military conspiracy are the one to blame. First Atlas, then Doomsday ? And he has a Lexie in store, to boot…This feels like quite the big badaboom coming. And that’s a bit of a problem for me.

On the one hand, you can’t have a Superman story without big things crashing and exploding everywhere (it’s called Actions comics, after all), and that twist at the end really got me. But on the other hand, I’m a little afraid that the story will focus on the military conspiracy, and leave the Kryptonian problem under-developed. But hey, it’s Geoff Johns and James Robinson : what could go wrong ?

Btw, did you see Agent Liberty and Thara Ak-Var smiling in the middle of all the panic ? I’m not surprised about the American cape (military superhero with ridiculous name = possible bad guy), but what does it mean about the Kryptonian chief of security ? Is she in on the conspiracy ? How could she, when Kandor only just arrived ? I think Kara’s going to have to talk to her “friend” soon…

Anyway, a good issue that keeps the pace, with interesting bits and hints (Robinson for the win), a good review, and I can’t wait to see the next “New Krypton” episode.

PS : I almost forgot ; I LOVE James Robinson’s Krypto (and I think the super-dog is the only thing I really like by Renato Guedes).

By: Ricco

Ricco — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:38:33 +0000

“the dozens of Kryptonians hanging around should be able to take him/it down without a problem” True, and that’s probably the point. No better way to scare the people then by showing them how much power these new Kryptonians have, if a handfull of them can do that to stone face imagine what they could do if they all unite for a single effort (let’s say, I don’t know, take over Earth for exemple?). A few civilian casualties wouldn’t hurt either everyone else looks scare yet the head of Kryptonian security has that “finaly! Action!” look on her face. They’ll stop the baddy, probably killing him and a bunch of civilians and probably hurt/kill the president in the process. After all humans are not their first priority, Kryptonian security is there to keep the Kryptonians safe.

They don’t know how to control their powers, let alone use them in a real fight, it’s gonna get ugly real fast…

Or they might get slaughtered, we know those “room” thingies can neutralise/weaken Kryptonians, like they did against Supergirl in the fight against Atlas.

By: mosdef

mosdef — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:55:35 +0000

must agree with orgullo, give us the spoilers that why alot of people come here for spoilers.

By: Orgullo

Orgullo — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:14:54 +0000

Stephen – love the site brother. Truly. But “saving the spoiler” on a site called, wait for it, “Major Spoilers”? If anyone gets a tizzy coming to this place and reading a spoiler then they’re on their own. Please.

By: nu

nu — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:30:31 +0000

doomsday clone more than likely came from luthor and general lane

By: midwinter

midwinter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:00:53 +0000

I’m enjoying this. It’s a long time since I thought Superman was worth reading, but the Brainiac story in Action caught my attention. I’m interested to see how this will play out and wonder whether it’s going to have a “kingdom Come” storyline (without looking, the panel where the Kryptonians land in Metropolis looks very much like a KC pose).

Is it me, though, but is Geoff John’s trying to rework the old “Lois & Clark” tv series in Action?

By: Randallw

Randallw — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:32:27 +0000

I remember that issue. Also they had the entire planet but still had one large city the shape of a bottle sitting in the middle of a desert because they had got used to being close together.

By: Ricco

Ricco — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:33:23 +0000

Wait, didn’t I read in Legion of Super Heroes that after Kandor was de-shrunk they moved to a red sun and isolated themselves from the rest of the universe? Is that how this will end then? Then again it’s not like continuity has any meaning as of late…