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Superman: Redemption by Carlos Pacheco, Fabian Nicieza, Walt Simonson, Kurt Busiek
2.0

If only the second half was as good as the first half this could have been special.

So Superman is going around saving people. That's what he does. He's pretty famous for it. When he saves a older lady from a car she begins to praise him like a angel. This begins to build and everytime she calls superman comes. The stronger her belief becomes. Then one day when Superman can't come she is wounded. This leads to another event that happens far away from America where a symbol like Superman, another person with amazing powers, accidentally kills hundreds because of his explosion of powers. This leads to Superman coming to face to face but is he surprised of what he finds? Last story is just a silly dumb story that makes no sense.

Good: I enjoyed Superman questioning religion. Not in a snobby or bad way but what it means to people and himself. The people who raised him. I love all that stuff. I also enjoyed the idea of a villain not being outright "evil" in here.

Bad: The religious elements worked but some of the characters felt a bit off. As in not connecting. I especially didn't find the lady superman saved in the beginning as one who made much sense to the story and the ending to the arc was a bit of a letdown. However, it's the side story at the end that takes up a good 30-40 pages that is terrible and drags this whole volume down.

I'd give the first half a 3 out of 5 but the last story is horrible. So I'll have to drag this volume as a whole down to a 2 out of 5.