Read the monthly issues.

This story arc wasn't too good. It was great to read a Supers crossover but Supergirl was way too easily manipulated.

Also, I kind of wish that for these types of crossovers DC would just make one big collection. I can see why they would want to have three separate books but the way the crossover worked, you'd have to read a chapter of Superman, then Superboy, then Supergirl and then bounce back to Superman to keep the continuity going. That's a lot of hassle for a mediocre story arc. ( )

This really needed the Supergirl and Superboy stories to make sense. ( )

Not bad. It felt incomplete; it would have helped if the other parts of the crossover had been included. ( )

I’ll get out of the way first the thing that I still like least about this Superman re-imagining. I get that they’re trying to make it more ‘contemporary’ or something, but they are utterly and totally destroying the character of Lois Lane. Not just by giving her this boyfriend and pushing this ‘best friends forever (except for the fact that we ignore each other most of the time)’ with Clark stuff, they’re also destroying the reporter part of the character too. Producer of some TV talk show. Anderson Cooper is a good guy, but Lois Lane shouldn’t be written as Anderson Cooper. Lois Lane could talk to both stars as well as Presidents if she wanted to, but, before this reboot, unless the star had some other very important story, she didn’t --want-- to talk to the stars about what body lotion they use or the other sorts of questions that get asked on these shows.

But, I digress, back to the actual TPB. It wasn’t bad. We go from the Helspont, to a guy named H’el who is supposedly from Krypton and wants to save it. I will say that it was interesting in how he wanted to go about that. Usually the writers have the ‘bad guy’ (I was never quite sure how much of a bad guy H’el was, or if he was just a good guy with a skewed sense of everything) trying to terraform Earth into Krypton, but this time to save Krypton H’el would actually be saving that planet, but to do that ours would have been destroyed in the process. (I think that for the next reboot DC should just let one of these baddies totally destroy Earth, make a smoldering ruin of the Milky Way, and then the writers could start totally new instead of this sorta new start they keep doing).

Also. I still can’t stand Supergirl, but, maybe after this TPB her character won’t be such an annoying pain. We’ll see I guess.

I did like the stuff that happened on Krypton at the beginning of the story. Go figure. They ruin Lois Lane’s character, but for once the writer makes the Lara El character actually really cool (and better at kicking butt than her husband, nice).

Overall it was a solid book. Most of the art I liked too (here and there it got a little line-y) but for the most part it was clean art which I like. Solid 3 star TPB.

I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment. ( )