I'm very intrigued by this book. It's not great, but it has a lot of potential. Something I noticed right away is that Yang's characters have a very different voice compared to the rest of the writers at DC. Kenan Kong is attention seeking and full of himself and I HATE him, but that's intentional. It's very clear to me from this first volume that Yang is going the route Geoff Johns did in the Shazam book I read earlier this year (where the protagonist is an unlikable jerk who transforms into a hero over time). Kenan's story has a lot of potential to be better than Shazam's was 1) because that character arc is going to be paced out over more than just a few issues and 2) because part of Kenan's journey/job description is to learn more about Superman's powers, beliefs, and ideals and who's a better role model for being a decent human being than Superman??

Just like Kenan, the world and characters around him have potential, but haven't been fleshed out yet. Outside of Kenan's father, I never got a good grasp on what the other characters' personalities were beyond their reactions to Kenan's idiocy (It didn't really connect with me why the Chinese Wonder-Woman and Bat-Man became friends with Kenan by the end of the book). The book pays a good bit of lip service to the ideas of communism vs democracy, but doesn't fully delve into a major discussion on the topic (I imagine that's for another story since this origin story is juggling enough as is). It's a topic that isn't covered a lot and definitely not in the same context as this story so I'm interested to see what Yang has in store.

Regarding the art: I like it. Viktor Bogdanovic's pencils remind me a lot of Greg Capullo's style with the way he draws faces and bulky costumes (the fact that the colorist for Batman: Zero Year is the same guy coloring this book reminds me even more of Capullo). It works for me and the layout makes it a clean read.

I don't think this book will be for everyone, but if you want to read a very different DC book I think this might be worth a try. Only time will tell whether Kenan's character journey will have a payoff in the end.