What could possible be a better team up then Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale? I cant think of any, say what you will about Loeb now, but I dare say those two are the best modern team up in comics today. But this isnt a Loeb/Sale book, the writer is Darwyn Cooke (best known for The New Frontier)….Maybe this team up of two modern day comic creators will make yet another great Superman trade?

Well sadly to me this was a pretty medicore book from start to finish. Cooke can write a great Silver Age tale, but this isnt going to be remembered as one of his best. A story about his first encounter with Kryptonite could be done really well, and actually making the meteorite a person on his own is pretty well done. I like his internal monologue on the pages, but other then that I wasnt really thrilled about the story. Nothing was really there in terms of impact or great moments. It’s not terrible, but it was just mundane to me.

Plus it’s a shocker even for me, but Sale didnt seem on top of his game here. Dont get me wrong there are some great pages here and Sale is a fantastic artist. But unlike Superman for All Seasons, I just didnt feel an emotional impact with what he drew here. Maybe it’s because of Hansen’s colors that made that book so wonderful to look at. I mean the colorist here is Dave Stewart and he’s no slouch, plus he’s done a done of work with Sale before this. Overall I just wasnt impress by the art as well which is so disappointing for a Sale book.

So yeah it’s not the worst story ever, but it certainly wont be remembered as the best. It’s decent read threw and it just isnt the best of Cooke’s or Sale’s career. I’d love to see this team up again in the future cause it could just be as amazing as Loeb/Sale if given a much better story. Too bad we’ll never know until it happens.