Review of 'Superman' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I forced myself to finish this. It just doesn’t have the “Grounded” charm of the first volume. Straczynski mentioned on Twitter that he was dealing with serious vision problems during this run, and another writer shares credit on several stories, so I’m wondering if the influence of the other author is the reason for the decline in quality, but I kind of doubt it. In the end, it was the dramatic shift in the story arc that I didn’t like.
The story really shifts away from the walk and interactions with average people to the bigger scope of Superman’s legacy. None of this change engaged me as a reader.
With all of that, the individual comics do have moments of the charm similar to the first volume, but my frustration with the overall shift has buried them in my memory, so I have no examples. Suffice to say, I didn’t …
I forced myself to finish this. It just doesn’t have the “Grounded” charm of the first volume. Straczynski mentioned on Twitter that he was dealing with serious vision problems during this run, and another writer shares credit on several stories, so I’m wondering if the influence of the other author is the reason for the decline in quality, but I kind of doubt it. In the end, it was the dramatic shift in the story arc that I didn’t like.
The story really shifts away from the walk and interactions with average people to the bigger scope of Superman’s legacy. None of this change engaged me as a reader.
With all of that, the individual comics do have moments of the charm similar to the first volume, but my frustration with the overall shift has buried them in my memory, so I have no examples. Suffice to say, I didn’t hate everything.