I've made no secret of my love for what Mr. Adams has brought to the industry.
And, hell, the man is going to be 75 next month, and he's still drawing!! And still drawing well!!
So good on DC for saying, "What the hell? Let's give Neal fee reign on an out-of-continuity Batman title!"
Of course, Batman Odyssey, while visually spectacular, was kinda nuts:
So now we come to Superman: The Coming of The Supermen, where Neal gets to play around with the Man Of Steel, free of nu52/Rebirth constraints.
But once again, Adams hasn't quite grokked how his hero is "supposed" to behave.
Kalibak has kidnapped a young refugee child who was under Superman's care, in order to draw Kal-El to Apokolips.
And Superman is none too happy:
See, maybe that's what the mix-up was...maybe Zach Snyder was (through time-travel or whatever) reading this series when he crafted his version of Superman for the DC Cinematic Murderverse!!
Anyway, stay off model as long as you want, Mr. Adams. You've earned it, and we're enjoying the ride. Happy Birthday, sir!!
From Superman: The Coming Of The Supermen #4 (2016)
3 comments:
I'm amused by the "He has brains?" comment. It seems that Superman's usual compunction against lethal force is relaxed against organic constructs like parademons – since he doesn't consider them true life (rather a sort of biological machine) or at least not sentient life that can be reasoned with. I wonder, as such (without further context), whether this is meant to presume that he sees Kalibak here – as another bestial entity from Apokalips – as another such creature, until Orion (who has more experience with and far more knowledge and context about his own half-brother) arrives and effectively reveals that Kalibak is actually another full sentient (albeit quite alien) being.
I don't know about you, but to me all the dialogue, especially in the final panel, sounds like Google-translated Japanese. "You make our existence ugly with your presence. All your base are belong to us."
Brian--the context of the story (Superman had also fought Kalibak, and talked with him, over the past couple of issues) makes it clear that Kal-El knows that Kalibak is an intelligent being. He's just being wildly out of character.
Smurf--there's a reason that Adams is known for his art and not his writing...
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