Superman: No Limits...
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fajrdrakoThis was the latest DC trade paperback I got fro the library. I wasn't sure why
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<br>This was the latest DC trade paperback I got fro the library. I wasn't sure why <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1563896990.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="blank"<i>Superman No Limits</i></a> was put together. Obviously it was from various issues of <i>Action Comics</i>, <i>The Advenures of Superman</i> and a few other Superman titles that came out in 1999/2000 There were several different writers, several different artists, and not much thematic unity that I could see to the various stories. The story by Jeph Loeb was the best, but it wasn't up to even his average.
They were all terribly bland.
In these stories, Superman just isn't sexy. He fights a lot, but because he won't really hurt anyone, the fights tend to boil down to lots of fisticuffs and words, and they never come to much of anything. There were a few nice moments and good twists - for instance, Superman's wife Lois Lane making a deal with Lex Luthor and telling no one about it - but they were rare. Some stories seemed like variations of stories I read back in the sixties. A lot of the stories were about Lois Lane, or from her point of view, and since I have never liked Lois Lane, this wasn't, for me, a mark in its favour. Although German Garcia's art on one story made her cute enough that I liked her for the space of that story. Otherwise, the ongoing theme of Superman's domestic bliss failed to interest me much, even when he turned down a chance to have sex with Wonder Woman. This happened in the course of a hideously boring story about Asgard; I was actually skipping pages, something I almost never do. It also favoured the post-John-Byrne continuity in which Krypton was a horrible place - I don't like that.
<a href="http://www.hillcity-comics.com/graphic_novels/new_graphic_novel350.htm" target="blank">I just found an ad for it</a> that explains that these stories were supposed to be exploring Superman's "new direction" in 1999. You could have fooled me - I couldn't tell it from his old direction. I wasn't sorry I rspent time reading it, but I was glad I hadn't spent money on it.
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They were all terribly bland.
In these stories, Superman just isn't sexy. He fights a lot, but because he won't really hurt anyone, the fights tend to boil down to lots of fisticuffs and words, and they never come to much of anything. There were a few nice moments and good twists - for instance, Superman's wife Lois Lane making a deal with Lex Luthor and telling no one about it - but they were rare. Some stories seemed like variations of stories I read back in the sixties. A lot of the stories were about Lois Lane, or from her point of view, and since I have never liked Lois Lane, this wasn't, for me, a mark in its favour. Although German Garcia's art on one story made her cute enough that I liked her for the space of that story. Otherwise, the ongoing theme of Superman's domestic bliss failed to interest me much, even when he turned down a chance to have sex with Wonder Woman. This happened in the course of a hideously boring story about Asgard; I was actually skipping pages, something I almost never do. It also favoured the post-John-Byrne continuity in which Krypton was a horrible place - I don't like that.
<a href="http://www.hillcity-comics.com/graphic_novels/new_graphic_novel350.htm" target="blank">I just found an ad for it</a> that explains that these stories were supposed to be exploring Superman's "new direction" in 1999. You could have fooled me - I couldn't tell it from his old direction. I wasn't sorry I rspent time reading it, but I was glad I hadn't spent money on it.
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