Flying Man is Flying

Next week is the final 13-issue drop of first issues in DC Comics’ New 52, and they’re ending it in the last week in exactly the way they started it the first week: firmly in second place behind Marvel Comics, with women everywhere screaming that they’re nothing but a gaggle of adolescent, sexist pigs. They will also be releasing a Superman comic.

Whereas week one’s Action Comics #1 focused on Grant Morrison’s take on Superman’s first year as a superhero, the main Superman title, written by legendary penciller George Perez with breakdowns by Perez and finished pencils by Jesus Merino (Who did some issues of Justice Society of America a couple years ago), is gonna focus on Superman in the current DC continuity, including his new, underpantsless costume. By which I mean it has no underpants on the outside. I assume he wears underpants underneath his spandex pants, otherwise we will be learning the disturbing way whether or not Kryptonians are Jewish. But I digress.

Comic Book Resources has a five-page preview of Superman #1; go check it out then swing back…

Wow. Those pages sure are pretty, and I want to withhold final judgment until I read the entire book, but based on that sample, I’m guessing that in the new DC continuity, Superman’s fatal weakness is exposition.

I mean, look at these panels:

…Yes. Yes he is. You know how I know he’s using his super breath? Because I can SEE IT HAPPENING RIGHT THERE. And this:

Um… indeed. I know that that is what is happening, because as is true with most people who enjoy comic books, MY EYES WORK.

Man, I’m psyched to get some regular Perez art, even on simple breakdowns, but I’m hoping that these pages aren’t indicitive of the final product. Because Perez art or no, I do NOT want to wade through a book with writing that, in the end, amounts to:

Superman #1 comes out next Wednesday, September 28th. (Art via Comic Book Resources)