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War of the Supermen Discussion (Spoilers)
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I'm sure there is, I suppose there's just never been much incentive to find out what.
I'll be glad when this crossover event is over and JMS takes over. I've gotten tired of all the event storylines where I have to buy a dozen books just to keep track.
I didn't mind picking up the Supes lines, including the ancillary books like Supergirl, but when Supes got booted out of his own books for the New Krypton arc, I dropped out. Now that the story is coming to an end, I'll prolly check back in.
I didn't mind picking up the Supes lines, including the ancillary books like Supergirl, but when Supes got booted out of his own books for the New Krypton arc, I dropped out. Now that the story is coming to an end, I'll prolly check back in.
War of the Supermen isn't a crossover event. It's a self contained mini-series that spans four issues over the course of the month of May. The lead up towards it has been told in the Superman family books. Superman got "booted out" of his own book for story telling purposes and to build up "War of the Supermen". He was always going to return. It's similar to the death of Superman where he was gone for six months. Indeed I don't bother buying individual issues anymore myself I wait until the trades come out I just have been looking forward this event and couldn't help myself. I dropped buying single issues years ago though.
I only buy the big summer events when they're released in trade and follow the wiki articles on the various storylines. Kind of a shoddy way of keeping track of things but hey it works. Like I said January seems a long time to wait perhaps the date will be pushed down...we can hope.
The Geoff Johns/Francis Manapul Superboy arc in Adventure Comics did something fun with Superboy's parentage -- Superboy kept a notebook with pages "What Superman Did" and "What Lex Luthor Did" and he would go through and check them off. When he did a good thing, Superman. When he did a bad thing, Luthor. It was a nature/nurture thing, and it was pleasantly charming.
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. I was going to at least pick up the first issue anyway, but now I'll probably get the whole mini-series.
Replying to some other thoughts, I like how they've turned General Lane into Thunderbolt Ross. It makes the villain more personal and adds something in there for Lois to do which might not be the case if they just used a generic evil general. I also like Lucy as Superwoman, though I don't like those nodes that run down her arms and the sides of the uniform. I wish it was a little more streamlined. But I think Lucy is pretty kick ass in any event.
As I said before, or at least alluded to, I don't have a problem with Superman not being the last Kryptonian anymore. I think not being the last puts gives the writers a chance to change how the character views himself, and it might provide him with a choice between his human and alien heritages which could interesting to watch and read. And it can provide some ready villains with the same powers to give Superman more credible threats.
General Lane has always had an aggressive persona and a dislike of Superman...I think that what Johns did with him in putting him in charge of Project 7734 is just a natural evolution for the character and gives him resources that he might not have had before to deal with that he truly thinks is a threat to Earth.
I've been waiting for the first arc of the returned Adventure Comics to come out...I think it's called "Superboy: Redemption" or something like that on Amazon. I plan to pick it up.
I've been waiting for the first arc of the returned Adventure Comics to come out...I think it's called "Superboy: Redemption" or something like that on Amazon. I plan to pick it up.
He was pretty harsh to Clark and Superman during the Worlds At War storyline...I'm assuming his experience during the conflict against Imperlix set him off in his xenophobia and cemented his recruitment in Project 7734.
^ Okay I didn't know that part...wasn't familar with the origin of the Project just his post Our Worlds At War involvement.
I am somewhat glad that they addressed him being dead and all. I was figuring that Geoff Johns was just going "Uh, forget he ever died!" on us.
Now, retconning it that Mrs. Lane had been dead since Lois was a little girl was silly since we've SEEN Mrs Lane alive and on good terms with Lois and Lucy in recent years.
Now, retconning it that Mrs. Lane had been dead since Lois was a little girl was silly since we've SEEN Mrs Lane alive and on good terms with Lois and Lucy in recent years.
He liked Clark in the earlier stories. Since they brought him back as a Thunderbolt Ross clone he stated that he always disliked Clark for "taking Lois away from him", which is bizarre because in the newly retconned history he and Lois never seemed to care for each other that much.
A crossover by any other name that smells of the eventually trade sales. The storyline had been set-up across the Superman line of books — and that's up to 5 or 6 books now. So this "self-contained" story still crossover'd to several books before being told in its own four books.
I understood why he was booted out and that he'd eventually return, but I had no interest in what was going on in the regular books without him. Hence why I dropped out.
^ I understand your original hesitation on picking this up I just felt the need to clarify that War of the Supermen isn't a crossover in the traditional sense. Yes it has been built up (I already own four of the hardcovers that this story originates and am looking for Superman New Krypton Volume Three). I also meant that this particular "event" is self-contained it doesn't have a thousand spin off books or tie in to the other Superman family it was designed so that you could pick up each book over the next four weeks and read it without having to follow anything else. That is what i meant.
@Mr. Light thanks for the link...that's in two and a half weeks!
@Mr. Light thanks for the link...that's in two and a half weeks!
