Superman Year One

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Year Five sees a desperate last stand from Batman, the supervillains being freed after Plastic Man breaks into the Regime's underwater prison to free his son, and a small handful of the remaining Insurgents and Lex Luthor to establish a link to the Prime Universe Justice League and call them for help. The end of Year Five serves as the direct precursor to the game Balking at a few political references in the name of preserving corporate standards sits in contrast to the history of superhero comics, an industry that came to life thanks to two Jewish kids from Cleveland in the ‘30s. When the Big Two lean into the political aspects of their creation instead of running away, we all benefit. Year Two features Superman's fight against the Green Lantern Corps and Harley Quinn joining the Insurgency. I liked that Clark kept his humility and scout outlook even when everyone was always either criticising him or questioning him. The comic does a good job at illustrating how much he has to restrain himself to avoid not only hurting others, but also becoming self-absorbed. Then he goes through adulthood. He runs into a bully in a bar and accidentally starts a brawl while he’s in the Navy. How do you deal with something like that? I think the way we did it, it was a little bit charming, but it was serious, and it was important. I loved the way we handle it, especially the barroom scenes, which of course, I know a lot about.

Just so you think I'm not a big whiner baby, there were parts of it that were interesting. The stuff with him in the military caught my attention as a what if - then it just went off the rails and into mermaid land. Add to that the fact that he never seemed to visit Smallville, or mention Lana & the Kents again, and you can see why I was convinced I was reading a comic about Ultraman.Normally, I'm not a fan of John Romita Jr.'s art, but I actually thought this was the best work I've ever personally seen from him. That's not to say I loved it, but I didn't (for once) hate it. I guess you could say that, but it wasn’t intended to be that way. It broke into that format, the enlisting in the Navy at the end of the first issue, and then expanding on the Navy into the SEALS in the second issue, and then the ocean plays a big part in that. John Romita Jr., (Daredevil: Man without Fear, Eternals: Το Ξύπνημα των Θεών, Wolverine: Δημόσιος Κίνδυνος) χωρίς να εντάσσεται στις κορυφαίες στιγμές της καριέρας του, παραμένει εντυπωσιακό στα μεγάλα καρέ και αξιοπρόσεκτο ακόμα και στα πιο τυπικά σημεία της αφήγησης. Ο έμπειρος σχεδιαστής ακολουθεί τη ροή της αφήγησης του Miller και προσαρμόζει αξιόλογα το σχέδιό του στις αλλαγές αυτού. Το πιο ενδιαφέρον σημείο της δουλειάς του είναι η σχεδιαστική αποτύπωση της ωρίμανσης του Clark, η εξέλιξη της μορφής του από τον έφηβο μαθητή του Smallville στον θρυλικό υπερήρωα. The Justice League of America (JLA) had a year-long release detailing the origins of the team. This series was unique because it did not feature some of the long time favorites of DC at this point in time. Batman and Superman both had made active decisions to avoid being in the group. Wonder Woman was simply not introduced. Having read many variations of Superman's origin and upbringing, I was curious what new could possibly be added. Now that I've finished it: not much. First of all, any "dangerous" situations that a young Clark is but through has zero drama. We all know he's going to be fine.

As long as you keep the editorial base, the need for the editors to get the character right, especially with a character like Superman, which… I don’t have the history with the character. But as long as I get those things correct, then we’re good to go in any direction. But I started off that way, and I got used to it. Miller has done plenty of work in collaboration with other artists. His “Batman: Year One” is perhaps the most famous example. When Superman: Year One was announced, there was enough residual goodwill from the old days, or perhaps generated by Master Race, that fans were excited, and they expected something like “Batman: Year One.”

Clark στον αμερικάνικο στρατό, η εξέλιξη είναι αρκετά προβλέψιμη, ενώ απουσιάζει και η πρωτοτυπία στην αφήγηση της καθημερινότητας του στρατού. Παρ’ όλο που ο Superman δεν είχε βρεθεί ξανά στο παρελθόν στον αμερικάνικο στρατό, το πέρασμά του από αυτόν δεν ήταν τελικά ιδιαίτερα αξιοσημείωτο. Μάλιστα, το γεγονός ότι τη μόνη φορά που παρουσιάζεται ο αμερικάνικος στρατός στο πεδίο της δράσης βρίσκεται αντιμέτωπος με μουσουλμάνους τρομοκράτες προδίδει τις ιδεολογικές εμμονές που έχει αναπτύξει ο Frank Miller στα έργα του τα τελευταία χρόνια.

My teeth began to grind when Clark joined the military. Besides the nonsensical logistics of how exactly is Superman going to pass a physical? They do draw blood and give you shots. If Superman can stop a bullet how is a needle going to pierce his arm? And this doesn't even bring to account that Superman shouldn't be learning how to kill people in the first place. It goes completely against his character. Oh and then Clark Kent goes AWOL to screw a mermaid. Did I forgot to mention Superman can now breathe water even though he doesn't have gills? The issue ends with Superman becoming the king of Atlantis and getting hitched to Lori Lemaris only to be forgotten the very next issue. Paradoxically, the goal of good comics lettering is both to be a guide for the reader’s eye through the combined work of the penciller, inker, and colorist; and also to make the reading experience as seamless and natural as possible. That can make it easy to overlook, as Workman’s description of his process reveals. I used to be a very devoted fan of Miller's, decades ago, but that has decreased quite a bit these last few years. Not only because of his reduced output but the few things he has done just didn't have the edge it used to. In other words, I wasn't that excited to begin with about reading this and the bar wasn't set very high. In the first issue of Action Comics, published in 1938, Superman beats up a wife-beater, saves an innocent woman from execution, and forces a corrupt senator to confess that he’d stirred up a South American war because he was in bed with the arms industry.Year One features the Insurgency led by Batman against the Justice League led by Superman and the establishment of the One Earth Regime. A Mind-Switch in Time • Brainiac • Superman: The Coming of Atlas • Death of Superman • Doomed • For the Man Who Has Everything • Funeral for a Friend • Kingdom Come • Krypton No More • Last Son • Maelstrom • New Krypton • Public Enemies • Reign of Doomsday • Reign of the Supermen • Revenge • Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes • The Final Days of Superman • The Great Phantom Peril • The Supergirl from Krypton • The Third Kryptonian • Two for the Death of One • Up, Up and Away! • Warworld • Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? • Who Took the Super out of Superman! A place for fans of DC's comics, graphic novels, movies, and anything else related to one of the largest comic book publishers in the world and home of the World's Greatest Superheroes! Except Superman is not Batman. The origin of Superman is a series of needful developments, whereas Batman’s is the death of his parents and a vow. Superman was Superman long before he put on a costume. And that’s what Frank Miller is interested in. The biggest divergent mark in his version is Superman in the military. Forget the Atlantis stuff happening around it, the expanded relationship with the mermaid Lori Lemaris. The very thought of Superman in the military, in the modern age, is an outrage. That’s Vietnam for you. You can have Captain America, the Justice Society of America, fighting in WWII, both because that’s literally what made them relevant in the first place and what still makes sense in their stories, but Superman??? Of course not!!! Right?