ADVENTURE COMICS #1
What did the
iFanboy
community think?
Pulls
Size: pages
Price: 3.99
You ever want something so bad that all the anticipation worked against
it? That having to wait 6 months or however long just kills it for you
for you and you’ve built it up so much that there is just no way to
have it pay off in a satisfying fashion?
Yeah, that’s what this is.
I
really enjoy Geoff Johns work. I think he’s definitely the best thing
that DC has going for it right now. He always writes with an eye to the
long form, which isn’t bad it just seems when he starts a story from
scratch the whole thing becomes setup.
The set up was interesting. I
liked the whole checklist plot device, but it didn’t really feel like anything happened.
The art was freaking beautiful,
but it just felt lacking.
Maybe that it was trying too hard to be
Smallville in comic form.
Maybe the problem was how it relied too
heavily on parallels between Conner and Clark’s past. The back up was
the same problem.
I love how Johns writes the Legion, but a whole lot
of set up and nothing to really sink my teeth into.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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I’m legitimately curious. What do you look for in the first issue of a comic story, if not set-up? I don’t intend for that to sound dismissive, or judgemental, but I’m really curious about what other people are looking for when they read stories.
It’s a story. Not the set up for later stories. This doesn’t really stand alone with anything interesting happening. It’s just introducing the characters. Every good first issue still has some drama. The closest we got was when the girl with the bike fell through the bridge.
Yeah, they could of added some more words too.
Legitimate qualms, however we are in an era of almost mandatory 6-part storytelling. In this decompressed form it’s sometimes hard to have excitement happen. Look at the original Ultimate Spider-Man #1 from 2001. Great issue but… literally it covers about 4 pages of the Stan Lee version of the origin in 22 pages.
@Prax-be that as it may, it was the first issue. I cannot imagine anyone who was on the fence about picking up the rest of this series picking it up because of this issue.
Raises hand. Me. I was on the fence, but will keep getting it based on this issue. I’m a bit of a Geoff Johns whore though, so I’m not the best, most unbiased, opinion. I’ve never read much Superboy before, so perhaps this is perennially what the character is like, but I REALLY enjoyed Connor’s checklist of behaviors of both of his "halves". It seems like an interesting conceit to have the character try to come to terms with his origin.