SUPERBOY #2

Review by: TheHopelessGamer

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Written by SCOTT LOBDELL
Art by RB SILVA and ROB LEAN
Cover by ERIC CANETE

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

After Teen Titans #1, I was incredibly nervous that Superboy #1 would just be a crazy fluke. I was also nervous that I would have to continue to read Teen Titans if I wanted to understand what was going on in one of my favorite series of the relaunch.

Luckily, I’m very happy to say that Superboy #2 is just as good as #1. RB Silva continues to be my favorite artist of the relaunch (which is a ridiculous thing with J.H. Williams III, Greg Capullo, and Cliff Chiang all deliverying gorgeous books, but there you have it).

Lobdell seems to really know what he wants to do with Superboy, and I seem to be really loving it. The story starts just a tiny bit confusing with a flashback (although baldy Superboy is a really easy mechanism to tell we’re looking at the past), but when we jump back to the present, the story is great. N.O.W.H.E.R.E. in this book feels nice and sinister like you’d want a huge evil corporation to be.

What really struck me though was how it’s started to remind me a lot of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I don’t want to post spoilers, but the high science concepts and slightly out-of-control and out-of-touch-with-humanity presence in Superboy feels scary and new, both in really great ways. This is the book I’m pulling for the most with the relaunch, and I’m very relieved to say that it’s kept the quality and (so far) hasn’t required me to buy one of the books I was most disappointed in (Teen Titans) to understand it.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent

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