Comics Fondle

This issue is a competent Kirby homage, but it’s strangely detached (especially for a story called The American Evolution and featuring a major subplot about being selfless). Steve Rude’s art is gorgeous, which is no surprise, but Evanier’s script is lifeless. His Jimmy Olsen is a compelling protagonist, however, even as he moves through the […]

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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… […]

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