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Mon-El has agreed to be Metropolis's new champion – unfortunately Metropolis wants nothing to do with him! In the wake of the events in the "New Krypton" saga, Mon-El faces fierce anti-Kryptonian sentiments from a city that assumes he's Kryptonian. Oh, and there's also the not-so-small problem of Rampage. Meanwhile, the Guardian and his Science Police must deal with the Prankster's new wave of murderous fun. And Black Lightning and Steel face the repercussions of a world without Superman.
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A nice round of stories
Reviewed by SilverZeo on May 16, 2009. SilverZeo has written 15 reviews. His/her last review was for New Heaven, New Earth. 3 out of 3 users recommend his reviews. |
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This issue had a decent amount of character with their own stories and foreshadowing that will lead to something later in future issues.
We have Mon-El trying to fit in as a regular cop (or as regular as you can get in Metropolis) protecting the city, which goes for the same as his Superhero Persona. After getting a lecture of trying to better job switching between identities by Jim, a mysterious military man watches over him through a secret camera.
Later on, Black Lightning takes out a bunch 3rd Rate bank robbers with high-tech stuff, while being watched by the Prankster watches him through a secret camera...
Then we have John Irons giving a man (Atlas?) a tour of Metro's sewer/pipe system.
We then have Jimmy interviewing Zatara about the strange beams that affected Supergirl and Superdog a few issues back, durning Atlas's great return from years in comic limbo, when Parasite is about attack, wanting to taste the power of magic.
In another "then," we have The Guardian give us the background for the Science Police's top officers and givng us a hint about a next mission, mostly lickely about that alien in the test tube, wearing a LoSH Ring.
And for our final then, we have Mon-El looking all the good he has done and feels atop of the world, which in all comic book stories, he begins to fall from the sky.
This was good issue, giving us a decent amount character background. The only bad thing I could say that, as a reading of the 90's Superboy series, it was great so see Guadian back in action, but it was bittersweet for me since they kind of made it that Guadian's connecting from that seires didn't "really" happened, especially since in one issue of the series, Sharpnel was the one who personally murdered Guardian... temporaly of course; and they made no refrence to this. Sure Jim said that "Sharpnel will be the last thing you'll see," but I doubt there was a connection. And what ads in the irk, Sharpnel himself doesn't make any refrence to his killing of Gaurdian, he just makes a one liner as he fights Mon-El. He didn't even say something like, "I took you down once, Shield-Man, and I can do it again!" when he was fighting Jim. While this part was the only thing I found rather annoying, I still really enjoyed the issue.
We have Mon-El trying to fit in as a regular cop (or as regular as you can get in Metropolis) protecting the city, which goes for the same as his Superhero Persona. After getting a lecture of trying to better job switching between identities by Jim, a mysterious military man watches over him through a secret camera.
Later on, Black Lightning takes out a bunch 3rd Rate bank robbers with high-tech stuff, while being watched by the Prankster watches him through a secret camera...
Then we have John Irons giving a man (Atlas?) a tour of Metro's sewer/pipe system.
We then have Jimmy interviewing Zatara about the strange beams that affected Supergirl and Superdog a few issues back, durning Atlas's great return from years in comic limbo, when Parasite is about attack, wanting to taste the power of magic.
In another "then," we have The Guardian give us the background for the Science Police's top officers and givng us a hint about a next mission, mostly lickely about that alien in the test tube, wearing a LoSH Ring.
And for our final then, we have Mon-El looking all the good he has done and feels atop of the world, which in all comic book stories, he begins to fall from the sky.
Shrapnel killing Guardian in Superboy #87.
This was good issue, giving us a decent amount character background. The only bad thing I could say that, as a reading of the 90's Superboy series, it was great so see Guadian back in action, but it was bittersweet for me since they kind of made it that Guadian's connecting from that seires didn't "really" happened, especially since in one issue of the series, Sharpnel was the one who personally murdered Guardian... temporaly of course; and they made no refrence to this. Sure Jim said that "Sharpnel will be the last thing you'll see," but I doubt there was a connection. And what ads in the irk, Sharpnel himself doesn't make any refrence to his killing of Gaurdian, he just makes a one liner as he fights Mon-El. He didn't even say something like, "I took you down once, Shield-Man, and I can do it again!" when he was fighting Jim. While this part was the only thing I found rather annoying, I still really enjoyed the issue.
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