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SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #6 (OF 12)


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  1. edward says:
    August 3, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    what a hideous cover

  2. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    August 3, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    The cover fits with the other 3 Superbooks this month… but that doesn’t make it right.

  3. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    August 3, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    Why no Gary Frank cover? ME WANT GARY FRANK COVER!!

  4. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    August 3, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Man, I sure hope the variant isn’t expensive cause this one is deplorable. No offense to the artist, I am sure he/she just was having an off-day.

  5. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    August 3, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Not the best cover, and the perspective is shot (That sun is bigger than their heads!) This starts the crossover of the Super-books though.

  6. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    August 3, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    Agreed, not my favorite choice of cover scheme.  Still, solid book.  I won’t be buying into this crazy crossover it’s taking part of though.  Pure rubbish.

  7. edward says:
    August 3, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    it’s such a stupid visual cliche to have a character divide down the middle…. very lame

  8. Avatar photo Alexferrer says:
    August 3, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    I know it’s been said already but… Dear God, that cover is trash.

  9. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    August 3, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    Agreed, this will not make the best covers of the week..

  10. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    August 4, 2009 at 1:14 am

    Let’s hope the content within is better

  11. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    August 4, 2009 at 3:51 am

    If this issue is less like Krypton courtroom scene of Law & Order, I’ll be happy.

  12. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    August 4, 2009 at 3:53 am

    Also, crossing over a mini-series is ridiculous. I understand that it’s a business & the idea is to sell as many comics as possible, but I didn’t sign up for reading Superman & Supergirl (I’m reading Action) when I started reading this.

  13. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    August 4, 2009 at 4:18 am

    @drakedangerz: The crossover didn’t even start yet. How do you know that it is bad?

  14. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    August 4, 2009 at 9:51 am

    @Robby-who said it was bad?  I said it was rubbish, meaning the idea of a crossover was.  I’m not buying into it because, like Wade said, its a stupid idea.

  15. Avatar photo magnum240 says:
    August 4, 2009 at 11:18 am

    I’ll be reading all of them, but I already was anyway.  Glad to see everyone hates these covers as much as I do.

  16. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    August 4, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    This crossover suckered me into not dropping some of them until after August is over.  I’ll probably drop Action and I’m still on the fence about Supergirl.  Hopefully Superman keeps up with how it was before the last issue.

  17. MikeFarley says:
    August 4, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    I dropped ACTION months ago and i’m not going to pick it up just for the crossover so I guess i’ll just have a hole in the story. Oh, well…

     

    Gotta jump onthe bandwagon with the cover…EW!

  18. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    August 4, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    That is one awful cover.

    Just look at the faces! Even if it’s only half of Kal’s/Zod’s face, just look at it! Looks like they went threw 100 rounds of boxing.

  19. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    August 4, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    If the crossover starts out good, and stays good, I’m gonna end up paying $2.99 for the conclusion in Superman, the title that I was trying to drop again.

    If I don’t like what this shooting of a certain character is all about from the start, I’m droppin Super-every thing until September.

    So IDK…

    I guess I’ll have to see tomorrow.

  20. MisterJ says:
    August 4, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    While I do agree about the character on the cover being lame, I get nostalgic about the ‘Return of Superman’ shield in the back.  I loved that outfit as a kid.

    As for the cross-over, I don’t like that there is a cross with a Limited Series.

  21. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    August 5, 2009 at 2:14 am

    @WadeWilson
    Wait… you signed a contract?? ‘Cause, if that’s the case, I’m right there with ya! Trying to make a reader-under-contract read more than just World of New Krypton… those money-grubbing bastards at DC! Thing is, this has been a crossover of sorts all along. They’ve all been losely tied in to one another, just now all the more. Why the uproar when the same family of books crosses over with itself? Especially when we don’t know yet how close they are tied in, do we? It might stay down the same path of ‘WoNK’ (heh, "wonk") being Superman territory, ‘Superman’ being for Mon El, and ‘Action’ being all about Nightwing and Flamebird (I actually dropped those two books, so I don’t even know what’s currently up w/ them)with the same story running through out them. If your only concern is Supes, stay off the other books. No one is forcing your hand here. 

  22. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:44 am

    @cap- Yeah dude, my LCS has contracts & I signed one to read New Krypton, not these other books 😛

    You know what I mean though, if you start reading a mini-series you assume that it will be self contained & you will get a complete story from it. I have no beef with Superman, Action, Supergirl crossing over with each other, this happens all the time, but since I’ve been reading comics, I’ve never seen a mini-series cross over into regular books. It screams "cheap stunt" to me.

  23. Avatar photo Garrett says:
    August 5, 2009 at 7:15 am

    Ooh, self-contained mini series that I was saving for a lovely deluxe hardcover collection suddenly takes a left turn and descends into cross-over controversy hell!

  24. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    August 5, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    Apparently they heard us making fun of the cover, so they decided to make it worse by adding that glowy effect

  25. Avatar photo magnum240 says:
    August 5, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    Great issue.  Am I the only one who could almost hear a John Williams score when they read the last page?

  26. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    August 5, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Amazing issue.  I loved that last page.  I still won’t be buying the crossover books though, just flip through them at the store maybe. 

    Pete Woods continues to kick ass.

  27. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    August 5, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    @Garett "Suddenly?" This was announced months ago and has been what the whole Superman-reboot has been leading up to so far.

  28. Avatar photo Paul Montgomery (@fuzzytypewriter) says:
    August 5, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    God I love this series. 

    That last page? Goosebumps upon goosebumps. John Williams’ score bouncing off the walls of my skull.  

  29. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    August 5, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Seriously, after reading that, how can you not want to follow into the next book?

  30. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    August 6, 2009 at 3:19 am

    Anyone surprised that all the Superman books are going to be crossing over to one extent or another haven’t been paying attention.

  31. MisterJ says:
    August 6, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    Whoa, whoa!!

    I gotta call shinanigans Conor.

    In the Hulk thread you advocate not getting caught up in the advance solicitations.  Now here it seems as if you are advocating that people pay more attention to advance ideas/direction for the books.

    I have only been purchasing SWoNK, and there have been no hints dropped that a cross-over will be taking place, at least not inside the book. 

    So why should’t I feel disappointed/surprised that it is going to cross-over?

  32. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    August 6, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    Checking advanced solicitations so that you know what you will be purchasing is not really a difficult thing to do.  In fact, I’m a bit shocked that some people apparently don’t do that.  You don’t have to obsess over what will happen, but at least glance at the solicits for your wallet’s sake.

  33. MisterJ says:
    August 7, 2009 at 1:24 am

    @drakedangerz-It certainly is not difficult.  But the problem is that the solicitations give out so much plot information that many do not want to look at them.  I personally only look at solicitations for books that are on my drop bubble or books I am not getting because of what is revealed therein.

  34. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    August 7, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    @MisterJ I hate to say this… but the Numbered Superman Diamond on the cover is a pretty big hint. Regardless of whether you want to read the other books, it’s been the intention of the current creative teams that fans should be reading all 4 of the Super-books to get the whole story-line of New Krypton. This hasn’t exactly been a hidden detail, nor has it been "sprung" on fans. It’s been talked about at conventions and the like. As I said above, the storyline was pitched as "what the first half of New Krypton is leading up to." I’m sorry if you only want the one book, and get being annoyed by it. But this has totally not been obscured and it’s not as if this is the first time stories from the 4 books are bleeding into the others.

  35. MisterJ says:
    August 7, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    @Prax-I remember the diamond from the 1990’s, but I also remember (and I might be wrong) that when they announced the new direction, and the return of the diamond, that you would not have to purchase all titles to keep up.  Yes, my purchases do not get me the ‘whole story,’ but I have not been interested in that.

    This is the only Supes title that I am getting presently.  I have not felt the least bit uninformed about what is occurring in this book, and saw no need to get the other titles.  So while there may have been the hint that you are referring to, I have five issues that have directly countermanded that hint.  So what to believe?  The diamond that has been completely innocuous, or five months worth of stories. 

    And as I said in the previous post, I try to stay away from announcements to avoid plot spoilers.  If DC said that this would happen, fine.  But the internal direction of the book did not.

  36. Avatar photo Noto says:
    August 8, 2009 at 5:42 am

    I’m fairly certain that if you just skip right to #7 you won’t have lost anything, and it will probably be recapped. Even when the issues didn’t have the diamond they often read better week-to-week alternating titles (Action/Adventures/Superman). One of the reasons I’ve loved these books so much is that it reminds me of the 1990s-early 2000s when I could get a Superman book every week. I missed those days for a long time. I’m glad to have them back.

  37. Avatar photo midwinter says:
    August 8, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    I’m enjoying this series so far. I dropped Superman and Action this month because they were pretty dull and starting to break down. Noticed that the "Patriot" title has replaced "World Without…" I wonder if Superman’s really coming back to Earth just to save sales?

  38. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    August 9, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    @midwinter If I’m not mistaken this is the best the Superman family of titles has been selling in years.

  39. Avatar photo theegreatone says:
    August 10, 2009 at 3:22 am

    I like the interior art.

  40. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    August 10, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    Not great, not bad. 4/5 for me. I hope Kara beats Kal to the punch.

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