As an undergraduate student in college before writing a paper I would jot down a ton of ideas, walk away fora couple hours, and then clean everything up. Lately the Superman books have been reading more and more like those big messy Word Documents of ideas.

I suppose it also doesn’t help that anybody living somewhere besides under a rock knows Superman will be leaving Earth for New Krypton, so reading about him mulling over the decision is already less exciting right off the bat. Having said all that, this issue is far from awful and far from good, it is just kind of there which is arguably worse than it being down right awful. Similarly, the art evokes no real emotion until the Origins and Omens back-up which is drawn by Raimondi whose pencil work I particular enjoy.

Sadly, if all these ideas being thrown around and set up in the Super-books over the past few months don’t pay dividends within the first two or three months of the new status quo I will be turning my back on them like Superman turned his back on Earth.