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Superman: Earth One, Volume 2 by J. Michael Straczynski
3.0

I strongly advise if you got this far you have to remember this is not the Superman you know or love. This is a different take. I see a lot of people comparing, which I think is wrong to do.

However, is this a good take? That's 50/50 for me. It's not horrible by any means but it does play by the books. I like the idea of it more than the execution. I feel like we should go deeper into him dealing with everyday issues over fighting a big bad every issue which sums up with a big battle in the city and destroying half of it (probably killing thousands) so overall I don't know why they keep doing this.

I also hate the pacing. It's either too fast, or too much talking about something that isn't very interesting. There's moments of greatness in here (losing powers/cat story) but so much gets in the way of fully loving it. For the great art and stunning moments I'd give this a 2.5 so we'll go with a 3.