One intriguing notion from Superboy #1

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I don't intend to post more than this from this issue, which set up some intruiging ideas.



Not sure about the art, the colouring gives everyone a very plastic-y look to their skin, but other than that, I like seeing slightly scrawny looking Superboy again. (Buff Kon was pretty, but a little obvious)

After escaping the clutches of N.O.W.H.E.R.E. Superboy relocates to Kansas and explains his situation to a very familiar (to us) classmate...



N.O.W.H.E.R.E. are still running tests on Superboy (I'll say no more than that), and the results of this one perplex the team...



Now THIS I love. I've found Kon's angsting about being Lex's offspring to be annoying as hell because A) being evil isn't genetic and B) All he worries about is the evil, he never considers the GOOD points of of Lex... like his intellect.

This has Superboy (no name has been given for him in this issue, it took me a while to notice that) displaying a simple binary SUPERMAN-GOOD/EVIL-LEX-EVIL but some of the traits that lead us to consider Lex as evil. If this side of him can be explored I'll be fascinated.

Also, possibly the best nutshell description of Lex Luthor I've read in YEARS... provided it IS Lex of course! ;)

 

Comments

BETRYAL! RAGE-LISH!

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First cartoon Superboy is a emotionless angsty emo with some Daddy issues and have a slight crush on Ms. Martian, no the reboot version of himself dosen't bat an eye at a woman whose house is on fire and given the fact that their a tricycle in her yard, there are kids involved! I know the kid had short attention when their were girls with bikinis in the room, but DAMN!

Really? Rose Wilson? They're REALLY retelling characters from OTHER BOOKS (Rose was Bart's possible girlfriend, remember! And Fairchild just shove Serling off the sidelines) instead of reintroducing Superboy's previous cast? Not even Lori from the last book?

I will admit, I am bias to this book, as I read the 90s series instead just reading what Johns worte about him in Teen Titans, but consider how much they change from the other 90s Super-Titles, like how Matrix was retcon and Linda's return was underwhelming...

Re: BETRYAL! RAGE-LISH!

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Hey. Rose was the Titans' resident bad girl, which in comics-language means she was the resident femme fatale. She had no shortage of flirtations while she was there: Eddie, Bart, that one time with Tim, that one time with Jason Todd, Cassie, M'gann. Admittedly the one with Superboy was even more nonsensical than her hitting on Tim, you'll get no argument from me on that.