Hannah's Words: Superman

Superman
Reborn

DC Universe Rebirth

Issues: ACTION COMICS #973-976 and SUPERMAN #18-19

By: Dan Jurgens, Patrick Gleason, Peter J. Tomasi, Paul Dini

Art by: Patrick Gleason, Jaime Mendoza, Mick Gray, Doug Mahnke, Doug Mahnke, Stephen Segovia, Art Thibert, Patrick Zircher, Christian Alamy, Trevor Scott, Ian Churchill

Story: There appears to be another Clark Kent, and of course it bugs Lois Lane she has no idea where this “dobbleclark” came from but she won’t rest until she discovers what. The DobbleClark finds out about Lois’ son and a man who looks like him. Next thing we know Jon Kent is disappears and the only suspect they have is the other Clark. Young Jon finds himself is a strange place he was put there by “Rubbletat” the funny guy his parents told him stories about, he was given that name because he could not pronounce Purple Hat or Mr. Mxyzptlk. Mr. Mxyzptlk has gone quite insane, no longer is he the annoying but funny pest that would occasionally visit Superman and Lois Lane. Upon his arrival to this world he was impnapped and imprisoned. He was positive Superman would come rescue him but he never did. Mxyz managed to escape but in order to hide himself from his jailor he cast a spell to turn him into Clark Kent and everything was good until Lois stopped playing, now he has Jon. Superman and Lois are losing their memories of Jon unless they can get him back from Mxyz. Too bad Mxyz stopped playing fair.

Art: The art was good it wasn’t consistent at parts with the artist change but other than that they all did a fantastic job.

Review: I enjoyed it. I prefer Superman and Lois Lane together so much more than Superman and Wonder Woman, to me it’s always been about Lois and Clark. This is basically the story arc that explains Rebirth. When Mxyzptlk did what he did and Jon does what he does it merges two of the time lines into one. I liked some of the little details they put in like Mxyz knowing about the other realities; Lego universe, The Animated series, the toys ect. that was a nice touch. When he explains what happened you want to feel sorry for him but at the same time he's being a worse villain than he ever was before. I don't know much about Jon, I haven't read much with him in it but so far I like him. I am excited to see where this path is leading the Kents and this new Rebirth timeline.

Trinity: Vol 1 Better Together
Issues 1-6
DC Universe Rebirth

Story by: Francis Manapul,

Art by: Francis Manapul, Clay Mann, Emanuela Lupacchino, Ray McCarthy, Matt Santorelli, Hi-Fi

Story: In an act of friendship and as a chance to get to know the new Superman, Lois Lane invites Diana Prince and Bruce Wayne to the farm house for dinner. It goes fine aside from little Jon accidentally burning a hole through the door and almost burns a hole through Bruce and Diana. But after dinner something funny happens. They get tangled up in a suspicious vine that transports them into their dreams where they must relive pivotal life changing events from their lives. Poison Ivy orchestrated it but the real menace behind it all is not who they think. Now Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman need to trust each other enough to get out alive all the while Lois and Jon are in the real world dealing with Poison Ivy.

Art: Beautiful. Francis Manapul did the art for the part 1, 2, and 5. Emanuela Lupacchino does the penciling for 4 and 6 with Ray McCarthy and Matt Santorelli and HI-FI as the inkers and colorist. Part Three is done by Clay and Seth Mann with Seth Anderson as the colorist. They all did a fantastic job. I am always picky on Poison Ivy and how she is drawn and I love how she’s drawn in this. I’m warming up on the neon colors, not much but I’m getting used to it.

Characters: Diana Prince/ Wonder Woman, Bruce Wayne/ Batman, Clark Kent/ Superman, Lois Lane, Jon Kent, Poison Ivy, and various characters from each of the characters pasts.

Review: I had no idea what happened before this with Superman and was a little lost but that is what Google is for I looked it up and found a great spoiler from back in March, (What the Hell did Superman just do to the DC Comics) that explained it to me. With this new information so much more makes sense! The story in this was very engaging I couldn't put it down, that's why I wait for the volumes to come out. Each of the characters had to face something from their past that helped shape who they are and face other issues that came from the guilt of their past. Clark gets to talk to his father again, Diana meets a younger version of herself and Bruce has to relive his parents death and the trauma afterwards. But in each situation the character takes away an important lesson from it. Unfortunately they weren't the only ones learning the vulnerabilities of the trio. It was a great story and showed so much character development.