Comic Picks By The Glick

​Arriving almost two years to the date after the first volume, this second one almost singlehandedly makes the case for the “Earth One” line as a series of original graphic novels.  It’s hard to imagine the material here being drip-fed to the public over that length of time managing to sustain anyone’s interest for that long.  Doing it this way gets around that problem and one other.  You see, if this story had been serialized and held up to critical scrutiny over its run I doubt that it would be selling as well as it has.  While the craft here is competent, it’s just that the version of Superman J. Michael Straczynski gives us here isn’t one that I can, or want to, believe in.