That was my reaction to the Batman/Superman storyline. It was really really fun and creative. I really haven’t read any other stories quite like it.
I’ve been meaning to read The Terrifics for a while, knowing that Yang wrote so many issues has me really looking forward to it.
15 18 Advanced Artificial intelligence
19 24 Bizarro
25 Choose an Adventure
26 28 Death of Simon Stagg
29 30 Son of Simon Stagg
I have mixed feelings about this run
When the pages concentrates on the Terrifics
It is well done
Otherwise
It often feels like a
Horror Comic
With emphasis on
Body Horror
The art of the various creatures was repulsive to me
I didn’t understand many of the endings
The first arc tries to merge
The Bible
With Advanced AI
The two topics don’t jell
Bizarro in the second arc is very unsympathetic
The Terrifics in the 80s and 90s are fun
As is them as kids
Involved in a time loop
The Choose the Adventure issue was unreadable on my smartphone
Mr Terrific is portrayed as a character without empathy
Metamorpho shows a great subset of powers, but comes off not as a tragic Thing like creature but normal, with a beautiful girlfriend
Plas is crazy
Phantom Girl is the most sympathetic, a teenager Amid mature adults, with little connection to the other Terrifics
This review is biased by my inability to enjoy the comics, partially based on hopefully short feelings of stress on not being able to comprehend these stories
I finished New Super-Man today. This was a fun series that also had a lot of important stuff to say. Great choice for AAPI month, @TurokSonOfStone1950! Not only because it introduces so many wonderful Asian characters, but because it addresses some of the nastier stereotyping in DC Comics’ past. What an amazing job Gene Luen Yang did! And good for DC in giving him the platform to actively call them out on some of those things.
I think I appreciated Kenan more because of how far he came as a character. Sure, sometimes he still makes bad choices or does selfish things, but his growth has been immense across the 24 issues. Plus his parents really are kind of the worst, aren’t they?
But my favorite part of this series might be I-Ching. I only know the basics of his involvement in Wonder Woman (there are many eras of hers that are still on my to-read list). In this series, however, he’s one of those amazing characters that seems to say exactly what I need to be hearing in my own life. He did that regularly across the series, but these panels from the last issue are freshest in my mind (and may have gotten me choked up):
I can honestly say that Kong Kenan’s personality was like a double-edged sword to me in the beginning. His bravado as a superhero was different to what I have seen in the past, which was interesting, but it is made him a bit too much as times. Luckily as the series goes on, it does begin to grow on you and not really get in the way of the story as much. At first, I did believe he was a bit of a bully, but luckily that perception fades away as the series goes on. You can tell very early on that Kenan’s relationship is rather fractured and only gets far more interesting as the series goes on. This may be the reason that he decided to ahead and become the New Super-Man, simply out of spite. This series is vey good so far (I have only read up to issue eleven at the time of this posting). I honestly may not have ever given it a chance if it were not the recommendation for this month so I am glad that it was!
Welcome to the Community, @CaptainCripp! I’m glad you’re enjoying New Super-Man, it’s one of my favorite recent series. Please let us know if there’s ever anything we can help you with.
I reread Festival of Heroes to brush up before Monkey Prince. Really nice collection of stories. I like that it also includes Tai Pham. Green Lantern: Legacy was such a good book.
