Spoilers!
I do not normally post reviews of comics this close to release!
Superman Unchained #1 was a very entertaining comic book. The action, the story telling the artwork
flowed across the pages of this comic.
There is no boring origin story and almost no mention of Superman’s
human parents and hometown. The story
simply starts out with the destruction of Nagasaki Japan by the American’s
dropping a bomb that looks a lot like a human during World War 2. We then flash to the present where Superman
is saving the day as someone has managed to fire satellites from Earth orbit at
the planet like giant bombs. Superman
mentions that he has destroyed or diverted all the satellites heading for
populated areas and we get to watch him work to literally defuse the most
dangerous satellite shooting out of orbit.
The satellite has a reactor core that would be like a bomb if it were to
hit the Earth. Superman fixes the bomb
problem by slowing the descent by disabling the Satellites decent. Using his X-ray vision did not work to short
out the engine controls so Superman changes the wavelength of his vision to Gamma
vision and that turns off the engine. In
the end Superman manages to save the astronauts and the military base that was
being targeted. Back in Metropolis
Superman interrupts an escape attempt or helicopter crash. During which he has
an interesting conversation with Lex Luthor that was as I said interesting and
full of potential – Lex actually sounded smart and composed compared to how he
had been acting in other New52 Superman stories. The next scene is with Jimmy Olson and Clark
Kent, Jimmy looks a lot like Seth Green for some reason, it might be the new
hipster look or I am just getting old.
While the two are making chit chat Lois Lane calls to point out errors
in Clarks latest Superman Saves the Day blog post. While they are talking the Daily Planet Chief
Perry White comes in to complain to Lois about advertisement placement. Lois drops at least one clue about how the
plot of the comic will develop and then tells Clark that the reason his article
was wrong was because Superman had stopped all eight Satellites heading for
Earth. Superman takes off to see who or
what had deflected the Satellite and finds a big handprint on the Satellite
debris that he does not recognize.
Superman is then attacked by torpedoes.
We then flash to a secret military base full of cool looking high tech
weapon systems. All the while Lois’s dad (apparently) monologues about how
being discovered by Superman is not really a problem because they have their
own Superman already – the end. Then there
is a short story of Perry White’s past and a pair of binoculars his Great Uncle
gave him, binoculars that appear to be the very pair used in the first pages of
this comic book. While Perry is talking
there is another story also in the current day of a fishing trawler pulling a
man from the ocean whom wants to talk to Lois Lane badly – even though his eyes
appear to have been melted. There is
also an interview with Scott Snyder and Jim Lee that was just somewhat
interesting. At this point I just want
to know how the American Government managed to keep a being as powerful as
Superman a secret for seventy years?
They kept this super being a secret mind you while he / she has been
used in operations during the seventy years since the creature was dropped on
Nagasaki Japan. If this comic book turns
into an American Military against Superman comic I will not continue to read or
buy the comic. If I wanted a teen angst
story I would just read one of the million X-Men comic books that Marvel Comics
produces. I do have a hope that having
Jim Lee on the creative team means that the stories will be good and in which
case I will continue to buy this comic because issue number one of Superman
Unchained was well done and entertaining.
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