Comics Fondle

What terrible art. Randy Green’s incredibly bad, whether it’s faces or figures. I suppose his scenery isn’t atrocious.

Danny Fingeroth’s dreadfully overwritten (like that, dreadfully overwritten?) script is kind of a neat idea. Earth’s going to explode, just like Krypton, and some little earth baby is getting sent into space. Except, Superman’s here to save Earth… and then bring the baby home.

The problem’s are in Fingeroth’s execution and Joey Cavalieri’s editing. They play the whole thing like a poorly illustrated Man of Steel homage, down to sharing the same opening page and lifting lots of Byrne’s pacing. Fingeroth then goes on to lift from Superman: The Movie, only adding robots.

His Superman is also decidedly not super. While I know post-Crisis Superman can’t breath in space, he’s worried about getting too hot under the Earth’s surface here. He’s Superman, isn’t he?

And Fingeroth’s over-reliance on Superman’s internal dialogue produces more a surfer dude than anything else.

But the idea’s kind of cool. Kind of.

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