Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr reported as New SUPERMAN Creative Team [Update]

@jonny_anonymous: Today. Less than an hour.

Eeek.

Oops no, I forgot. I'll do it later today. I already dropped Superman at 21. I missed out on that Psi-War fiasco. Do you like JRJR? Still dont think I am gonna pick it up though. I am trying to get my monthly books down to only Earth 2, Smallville, and Eternal Warrior. Then I can by the way cheaper trades from Amazon.

Wait and see. No colors on it yet… Hard to tell if its going be any good

Oh god...

from what've seen I cant stand his art. I could list at least 5 artists that have worked on AOS that would have been better choices. Oh a nd Valiant releases 14 issue collections which are amazing just so you know. Im reading S/W, Action, B/S, Thor, Saga and Unchaind

Johns is certainly capable of writing a good Superman. I just hope he doesn't go too dark with it and understands that a great Superman should also include helping and saving people from disasters and tragedies, not just constantly frowning and punching some super villain. About the art, I'm not much of a JRjr fan.

So come May or whenever the hell this comes out, we'll have great writers on every Superman series in the New 52. Assuming no one leaves till than of course, not including Superman Unchained because that's ending.

I'd be excited for this if Romita wasn't involved.

Ahh, well truthfully I think he depends on a good colorist.

I want to read AOS, I am thinking I'll get the trade on Amazon.

I was gonna get the XO Manowar one but lost interest, Not really interested in either harbinger and bloodshoot though. I am hoping that the first 12 Shadowman get collected, that'd be cool.

ill give him this, greg land, rob liefeld, hamberto ramos, steve dillon, brett booth, are all much worse than him

that and jrjr draws really really great celestials

JRjr needs a good colorist to compensate for the slack. I think DC will provide that. I'm pretty excited for this news...for the most part.

I like the look of that Superman. I guess we will see f it turns out any good. Maybe Johns inspired Romita a little, however Johns back on Superman is exciting news. He always had a great grasp on the character of Superman.

Cool. I'm glad to see Geoff Johns going to be on Superman. I loved Brainiac and Last Son. I'm cool with Romita jr being on art. I like his art.

Nothing official.

I'm relieved that Lobdell is gone but Geoff Johns is a risk. The art is what I'm really worried about.

@dernman: is it official

@sandman_: PM

Can I pull up a chair? Since when did JRJr. become hated? Maybe there's something I missed. Last thing I read drawn by him was AvX and Kick-Ass and didn't find anything offensive about his work. And here I was looking forward to him doing some DC work!

@dernman: now it's official. I see the colored version.

It's official.

Plus the Image previewed is shown colored and complete.

@squalleon: yup...Ivan Reis would have been better...

Superman is destined to be a hit or miss comic for eternity i feel like.

the only interesting Superman title out right now is "Unchained" and thats seriously because Jim Lee's amazingly breathtaking art

JRJr is definitely hit and miss for me.

This looks... very miss. I hope adding color will help. The other preview pictures aren't any better...

Ok so I'm not a fan of JRJR at ALL but that coloured version of Superman looks pretty good to me.

@sandman_:

Yes he would have! Or Stephen Segovia....

I'm not much of a JRJR fan. I stopped buying Cap because I didn't think his art fit the book and I've never found Kick-Ass particularly esthetically pleasing. Maybe he will shift his style a bit for Supes. I looked at his Spider-Man stuff and I like it more than his recent work. I'll be sticking with Pak/Kuder on Action for dose of Superman. Action has been fantastic so far. Pak displays Superman's warm hearted spirt perfectly and I'm loving Kuder's style.

Does this mean that my hopes of a Geoff Johns/Gary Frank ongoing Shazam title have been crushed? Unless Johns is dropping Justice League, which seems unlikely at the moment, I don't see this happening. I really hope DC can get Frank on an ongoing sometime in the future.

@sandman_: Heh The art makes it look like Superman in the Marvel universe. :p

Here's the colored version of the first pic as well as a second one. SO. MANY. LINES.

JRJR used to be my second fav artist but his work of late is not to my liking. Still, if he did Batman I'd be okay with it.

I like the artist on action comics.

AND KLAUS JANSON!

That's one ugly superman

John Romita Jr & Johns, Woot! Im down with this!

Not a fan of Romita Jr., his art has too many shading lines and his characters always look skinny. Works for some, like Spidey, don't think it will work for Supes

IT'S EVEN BETTER WITH COLOURS!!

My only complaint with the art is that the S is too square shaped. I prefer it when its thinner and longer but that's just a nitpick.

@sog7dc: please post an example...

@dernman: Oh God...Really?

@arturocalakayvee said:

Here's the colored version of the first pic as well as a second one. SO. MANY. LINES.

That second picture is the bees knees!

John Romita Jr is Awesome!

In an interview over at IGN Johns said that this storyline will " it will kind of reset Superman and his universe in the New 52."

That is promising news to my ears.

Johns and Romita on Superman instead of Lobdell,can't be happier than this!

I think it might be time for Superman to get a new costume...or at least get rid of the lines.

@br_havoc: I don't like that word.

Awesome? tbh I liked H'el though, everything else was bad though.

Yeah get rid of the armor Idea. MoS had a great explanation for the suit which is something you wear under the armor.

@dernman: just use the MOS armor.