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Superboy (2011) #5
Superboy, Volume 5: Paradox
As a result of the crossover event FOREVER EVIL, Superboy and the Teen Titans become stranded in the future without a way back home. Howevever, as they become immersed deeper and deeper in their new setting, Conner Kent comes to some startling revelations about his origins and future! Can he and the team rescue Kid Flash and find the way back to their own era? Or will they become lodged in the future forever? SUPERBOY VOL. 5 is written by legendary NEW TEEN TITANS scribe Marv Wolfman, returning to DC Comics in this epic graphic novel.
Collecting: Superboy #26-34 and Superboy Futures End #1.
Collecting: Superboy #26-34 and Superboy Futures End #1.
232 pages, Paperback
First published January 13, 2015
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Marv Wolfman
2,307 books306 followersMarvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.
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September 21, 2020
(C+) 67% | Almost Satisfactory
Notes: Crazy chronal claptrap, it cripples comprehension, compels cursory completion and causes convolution constipation.
Notes: Crazy chronal claptrap, it cripples comprehension, compels cursory completion and causes convolution constipation.
September 11, 2020
Slightly more interesting story with evil Superboy taking Kon's place. However, within a few issues his personality completely changes from evil to altruistic. Aaron Kuder provides the best characterization of the 3 writers on the book. I enjoyed Jorge Jimenez's art. This was the first time I had come across it.
August 5, 2015
Muddy storylines, time travel, evil clones, all the crap that makes people stop reading comics rolled in to one easy to ignore volume.
January 21, 2015
After the abysmal crap of the previous volume and the shocking medicority of the volume before that, I had almost no hopes that this final volume of Superboy would be any good at all, and yet it turned out to be the best book in the run. The opening storyline by Marv Wolfman ultimately goes nowhere, but it sets up a good look inside the head of new protagonist Jon Kent, so that his journey into a self-sacrificing hero in Aaron Kuder's story in the second half of the book rings true. Once Superboy is back in the present, the story rockets up a notch, and we get some multiverse bending, team-building, and a satisfying conclusion.
It's a shame that the Future's End issue is included at the end, because it doesn't do anything special and sours the ending of the final issue of Superboy proper. The art throughout is great, with the always reliable Andres Guinaldo pencilling the Wolfman story, and then Jorge Jimenez steps in to draw Kuder's story with some of his best work, a far cry to his work on Smallville Season 11 which was already pretty solid, but this is something else.
It's not quite worth wading through Volumes 2-4 for this final volume, but it does go a little way to redeeming this series, and gives hope for a better Superboy in the future too.
It's a shame that the Future's End issue is included at the end, because it doesn't do anything special and sours the ending of the final issue of Superboy proper. The art throughout is great, with the always reliable Andres Guinaldo pencilling the Wolfman story, and then Jorge Jimenez steps in to draw Kuder's story with some of his best work, a far cry to his work on Smallville Season 11 which was already pretty solid, but this is something else.
It's not quite worth wading through Volumes 2-4 for this final volume, but it does go a little way to redeeming this series, and gives hope for a better Superboy in the future too.
March 20, 2019
Dalsze próby naprawiania fabularnego bałaganu, przerzucanego z rąk do rąk kolejnym scenarzystom. Słabo wytłumaczona podmiana głównego bohatera na innego (po prostu zniknął!) nie mieści się już w żadnych ramach zdrowego rozsądku. Kiedy pod koniec byłem już w stanie poukładać sobie to całe mumbo-jumbo za pomocą całostronicowej ilustracji podsumowującej fabułę za pomocą chibi-ludków (to dopiero desperacja!), scenariusz zaliczył kolejnego nura w chaos.
Jak to skomentowała jedna z postaci:
"The crazy train has officially jumped the tracks".
KONiec :)
Jak to skomentowała jedna z postaci:
"The crazy train has officially jumped the tracks".
KONiec :)
May 19, 2015
Nope...a reboot of the DC Universe can't happen fast enough for this title.
July 19, 2019
How did this series go downhill so quickly and so completely? It degenerated into an incoherent mess that I have zero hope of untangling even if I read every other New 52 book because THIS ONE COULDN’T STAY IN ITS OWN DAMN LANE.
December 24, 2015
To be honest this was painful not easy to read. I loved Superboy, aka Kon, but this volume was about Jon the Superboy who got rid of Kon. This being the last volume I decided to see it through to its conclusion. It was weird to see Jon's actions and motivations (even if some are previously mentioned in other issues/volumes). It was an okay read.
I have had time to think about this last volume. In retrospect I think it was good to get Jon's perspective. Kon was the main character, but he was cloned from Jon. For this story to end it was good to get his perspective. Although I don't like his actions and motives.
I have had time to think about this last volume. In retrospect I think it was good to get Jon's perspective. Kon was the main character, but he was cloned from Jon. For this story to end it was good to get his perspective. Although I don't like his actions and motives.
April 7, 2016
There's no nice way to say this (and I apologize for the vulgarity): this book was a huge clusterf**k. I lost track of what the hell the story was about half way through the volume. I was so confused and felt bad because I thought I was "missing the picture". No. It wasn't that at all. It was so disappointing - it had such a good concept and it just crashed and burned. I was a fan of Kon/Superboy and now....now I regret reading all 5 volumes.
January 6, 2015
The pun writes itself, "I hate paradoxes!" This book was a giant flip-flop, jump around, hooplah that left you more frustrated than an explanation by the Doctor involving the words "Timey Wimey."
September 30, 2017
Too confusing of an ending. The artwork was amazing, but the story fell flat.
September 12, 2020
Sometimes it pays to know a little history. This concluding volume to the New 52 adventures of Superboy, for instance, reads a lot better when you do.
Fifteen years earlier there was another Superboy series featuring a different version of the character, of course, the version fans who only complained about...everything the New 52 did lamented almost as much as the new version of Bart Allen in the pages of Teen Titans. And yet, fifteen years earlier, in the pages of that Superboy, there was a character named Black Zero.
Now, this was itself a revision of an earlier character, one that resonated for many years, turning up in one form or another across multiple platforms throughout Superman lore. For instance, in the movie Man of Steel, Black Zero was Zod’s starship.
Anyway, the Black Zero in that Superboy from fifteen years earlier was...an evil alternate reality version of Superboy. The whole story was overlooked, criminally so, all the more so because it was the last and perhaps greatest story from this Superboy’s creators, Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett. It also happened to feature the first version of the revival of DC’s multiverse, famously obliterated in Crisis On Infinite Earths. Here it was called Hypertime. Mark Waid’s The Kingdom served as a second attempt, although it faded into similar obscurity quickly enough, until Geoff Johns produced Infinite Crisis...and another evil Superboy, the most famous of them, Superboy-Prime.
Paradox can be seen as the New 52 equivalent of all this. There’s an evil Superboy (Black Zero, Superboy-Prime), and even a genetic defect plaguing Superboy (something that Superboy had faced, too), and a gigantic confrontation between multiple Superboys (as “Hypertime” played out). Except in this version, all bets are off, and...that makes everything all the more interesting.
I love that the New 52 took creative risks. Having a different version of the clone Superboy play out was interesting, even when there was just one of him. It showed how strong the concept was. Then to toss in an evil Superboy as his apparent replacement as the actual lead of the series...Very rarely is something like this going to actually happen, especially without some labeled event happening around it. At the time it was baffling and infuriating (such was the reception to the New 52 as a whole, just one long knee jerk fan reaction to anything resembling new...and old), but it was really...a miracle.
Strangely, in the years to come it was also kind of prophetic. The evil Superboy here kind of presaged the next Superboy, another Jon Kent, also the son of Superman and Lois, also displaced from his own reality...but, fortunately, not, y’know, evil. And this character was introduced only a few months later, as a baby, during Convergence, and can still be seen in the pages of Legion of Super-Heroes today!
Comics, amiright?
And there’s some unquestionably great art involved. Jorge Jiménez, for example. I’d also like, as I always do because so few others ever seem to bother, spotlight Ben Caldwell, who illustrates the Futures End epilogue.
Superhero comics have always, always done wild and crazy things. That’s kind of the whole point. And in the grand scheme of things, Paradox might actually seem fairly tame compared to a lot of other material. But in its own way, it’s a special kind of miracle. It takes multiple writers looking as if they’re ignoring each other’s work to achieve, but the cumulative effect is to produce the very disorienting effect the characters themselves confront, their certainties, goals, expectations all wrecked along the way...And the whole is the better for it.
And that’s kind of the best possible outcome for one of the more daring titles under the New 52 banner, and all the more rewarding for it. If you allow yourself to see it. If you can see it for what it actually is. A bold stroke in a grander tradition, a happy resonance. A worthy addition to the lore.
Fifteen years earlier there was another Superboy series featuring a different version of the character, of course, the version fans who only complained about...everything the New 52 did lamented almost as much as the new version of Bart Allen in the pages of Teen Titans. And yet, fifteen years earlier, in the pages of that Superboy, there was a character named Black Zero.
Now, this was itself a revision of an earlier character, one that resonated for many years, turning up in one form or another across multiple platforms throughout Superman lore. For instance, in the movie Man of Steel, Black Zero was Zod’s starship.
Anyway, the Black Zero in that Superboy from fifteen years earlier was...an evil alternate reality version of Superboy. The whole story was overlooked, criminally so, all the more so because it was the last and perhaps greatest story from this Superboy’s creators, Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett. It also happened to feature the first version of the revival of DC’s multiverse, famously obliterated in Crisis On Infinite Earths. Here it was called Hypertime. Mark Waid’s The Kingdom served as a second attempt, although it faded into similar obscurity quickly enough, until Geoff Johns produced Infinite Crisis...and another evil Superboy, the most famous of them, Superboy-Prime.
Paradox can be seen as the New 52 equivalent of all this. There’s an evil Superboy (Black Zero, Superboy-Prime), and even a genetic defect plaguing Superboy (something that Superboy had faced, too), and a gigantic confrontation between multiple Superboys (as “Hypertime” played out). Except in this version, all bets are off, and...that makes everything all the more interesting.
I love that the New 52 took creative risks. Having a different version of the clone Superboy play out was interesting, even when there was just one of him. It showed how strong the concept was. Then to toss in an evil Superboy as his apparent replacement as the actual lead of the series...Very rarely is something like this going to actually happen, especially without some labeled event happening around it. At the time it was baffling and infuriating (such was the reception to the New 52 as a whole, just one long knee jerk fan reaction to anything resembling new...and old), but it was really...a miracle.
Strangely, in the years to come it was also kind of prophetic. The evil Superboy here kind of presaged the next Superboy, another Jon Kent, also the son of Superman and Lois, also displaced from his own reality...but, fortunately, not, y’know, evil. And this character was introduced only a few months later, as a baby, during Convergence, and can still be seen in the pages of Legion of Super-Heroes today!
Comics, amiright?
And there’s some unquestionably great art involved. Jorge Jiménez, for example. I’d also like, as I always do because so few others ever seem to bother, spotlight Ben Caldwell, who illustrates the Futures End epilogue.
Superhero comics have always, always done wild and crazy things. That’s kind of the whole point. And in the grand scheme of things, Paradox might actually seem fairly tame compared to a lot of other material. But in its own way, it’s a special kind of miracle. It takes multiple writers looking as if they’re ignoring each other’s work to achieve, but the cumulative effect is to produce the very disorienting effect the characters themselves confront, their certainties, goals, expectations all wrecked along the way...And the whole is the better for it.
And that’s kind of the best possible outcome for one of the more daring titles under the New 52 banner, and all the more rewarding for it. If you allow yourself to see it. If you can see it for what it actually is. A bold stroke in a grander tradition, a happy resonance. A worthy addition to the lore.
May 26, 2021
Superboy... Quo vadis?
Nie ma to jak tytuł nad którym pracuje kilku artystów, ale nie wspólnie. Byli wymieniali w trakcie prac, co niestety widać i czuć. Lobdell, DeFalco, Jordan, a w ostatnim omawianym tomie także legenda, Wolfman oraz rzemieślnik, Kuder. I jak na złość ten drugi autor robi tu znacznie lepszą robotę...
Mamy tu taki miszmasz, że głowa boli. Connor znika, a jego miejsce zajmuje Jon Kent, syn Supermana, który ma plan. A plan ten to eksterminacja wszelkich meta-ludzi. Uparcie do niego dąży, jednocześnie próbując ukryć swój stan przed grupą Młodych Tytanów, do której Connor przynależał. I już tęsknie za tymi czasami. Bo Jon, mimo że ma potencjał, to jest tutaj nijaki. Dialogi są tutaj zwyczajnie nudne. Plus Raven, która gra na własną rękę, a raczej jej ojca, co nieco jest mało spójne z tym co znam. To nie moja Raven i już wolę tę z retconu, gdzie potrafi się bawić w klubie nocnym.
Ale. Klonowanie. Telepatia. Podróże w czasie. Wszystko to już gdzieś było. Plus całkowicie niewiarygodna zmiana charakteru postaci, gdzieś po środku. Nie, zwłaszcza, że gdy do głosów wreszcie dochodzi Kuder to widać, że miejscami miał pomysły, ale bagno jakie zastał przy tym cyklu go wchłonęło. Całkiem poprawna i dynamiczna końcówka nie potrafi mi wymazać nudnej wcześniejszej połowy całkiem obszernego tomu. Cenię sobie pojedynek z Parasite'em, ale to tyle. Zeszyt z Futures End jest zbędny.
Nad tomem pracowało kilku artystów, jak Jimenez, Irwin czy Guinaldo. Na pewno dali z siebie wszystko i całość wygląda jako tako, ale nie jest to dzieło sztuki. Jeżeli miałbym coś zachwalać to pracę Jimeneza. Jest ona nieco kreskówkowa, ale fajnie zarysowana. Przy pozostałych Panach proporcje czasami dziwnie się zmieniały.
Przykre, że seria tak naprawdę z drugą- albo i trzecioplanową postacią, która zaczynała się nieźle, tak szybko zaliczyła spadek prawie na samo dno. Komiks jest medium, jakie ma z założenia bawić. Superboy nie jest pozycją dla koneserów, ma zapewniać rozrywkę. Zamiast tego nudził. Może nie tak strasznie jak bodajże trzeci tom, bo tu przynajmniej całość wygląda, ale widać spore braki. Na mojej skali seria kończy jako mierna, niebezpiecznie blisko kursując wokół określenia gniot. Szkoda, bo relacja Connora z Młodymi Tytanami to coś interesującego, ale New 52 nie potrafiło tego rozegrać.
Nie ma to jak tytuł nad którym pracuje kilku artystów, ale nie wspólnie. Byli wymieniali w trakcie prac, co niestety widać i czuć. Lobdell, DeFalco, Jordan, a w ostatnim omawianym tomie także legenda, Wolfman oraz rzemieślnik, Kuder. I jak na złość ten drugi autor robi tu znacznie lepszą robotę...
Mamy tu taki miszmasz, że głowa boli. Connor znika, a jego miejsce zajmuje Jon Kent, syn Supermana, który ma plan. A plan ten to eksterminacja wszelkich meta-ludzi. Uparcie do niego dąży, jednocześnie próbując ukryć swój stan przed grupą Młodych Tytanów, do której Connor przynależał. I już tęsknie za tymi czasami. Bo Jon, mimo że ma potencjał, to jest tutaj nijaki. Dialogi są tutaj zwyczajnie nudne. Plus Raven, która gra na własną rękę, a raczej jej ojca, co nieco jest mało spójne z tym co znam. To nie moja Raven i już wolę tę z retconu, gdzie potrafi się bawić w klubie nocnym.
Ale. Klonowanie. Telepatia. Podróże w czasie. Wszystko to już gdzieś było. Plus całkowicie niewiarygodna zmiana charakteru postaci, gdzieś po środku. Nie, zwłaszcza, że gdy do głosów wreszcie dochodzi Kuder to widać, że miejscami miał pomysły, ale bagno jakie zastał przy tym cyklu go wchłonęło. Całkiem poprawna i dynamiczna końcówka nie potrafi mi wymazać nudnej wcześniejszej połowy całkiem obszernego tomu. Cenię sobie pojedynek z Parasite'em, ale to tyle. Zeszyt z Futures End jest zbędny.
Nad tomem pracowało kilku artystów, jak Jimenez, Irwin czy Guinaldo. Na pewno dali z siebie wszystko i całość wygląda jako tako, ale nie jest to dzieło sztuki. Jeżeli miałbym coś zachwalać to pracę Jimeneza. Jest ona nieco kreskówkowa, ale fajnie zarysowana. Przy pozostałych Panach proporcje czasami dziwnie się zmieniały.
Przykre, że seria tak naprawdę z drugą- albo i trzecioplanową postacią, która zaczynała się nieźle, tak szybko zaliczyła spadek prawie na samo dno. Komiks jest medium, jakie ma z założenia bawić. Superboy nie jest pozycją dla koneserów, ma zapewniać rozrywkę. Zamiast tego nudził. Może nie tak strasznie jak bodajże trzeci tom, bo tu przynajmniej całość wygląda, ale widać spore braki. Na mojej skali seria kończy jako mierna, niebezpiecznie blisko kursując wokół określenia gniot. Szkoda, bo relacja Connora z Młodymi Tytanami to coś interesującego, ale New 52 nie potrafiło tego rozegrać.
May 15, 2018
The New 52 rebrand really ruin this character for me. Living legend Marv Wolfman was brought in to save this disaster, and his talent definitely make this final volume the best of the run, but it is still not great, and sadly not salvageable. The story has devolved into such a convoluted mess that pages and pages of exposition were required to try and prevent the reader’s head from exploding. And for those of us that even bothered to hang on until the end, were only given a “been there, done that,” story-line.
This version of Superboy is so unlikable that I think it explains why we have yet to see the character to appear in any Rebirth incarnations.
This version of Superboy is so unlikable that I think it explains why we have yet to see the character to appear in any Rebirth incarnations.
June 16, 2025
Superboy Vol. 5: Paradox
The Teen Titans think Kon-El is fighting by their side, but it is his progenitor, Jon Lane Kent, who has take n over his body. Initially intent on waging his war on metahumans, Kent soon learns the values of being the true Superboy.
Wolfman's coda to the 'New 52 Superboy' is well thought out and perfectly realised. The parallels with the Crisis Superboy are clear.
The Teen Titans think Kon-El is fighting by their side, but it is his progenitor, Jon Lane Kent, who has take n over his body. Initially intent on waging his war on metahumans, Kent soon learns the values of being the true Superboy.
Wolfman's coda to the 'New 52 Superboy' is well thought out and perfectly realised. The parallels with the Crisis Superboy are clear.
November 2, 2025
I challenge of the many writers of this Superboy run to explain it. There are multiple Superboys in multiple timelines, none making sense and none enjoyable to read. There are random characters from random universes and they won't be seen again because other writers can read this and see they are all awful. This entire New 52 Superboy run will go down as the worst of the bunch and that's saying something. Overall, abysmal.
January 8, 2026
A highly controversial end to a controversial run that changed writers multiple times. Still, I think Wolfman tied it all together well, and Jorge Jimenez's art was gorgeous. Many didn't like the shift of the main character to Superboy's counterpart, the Son of Superman, but I thought it was an interesting angle. This was absolutely the best TPB volume of Superboy's New 52 run.
April 16, 2020
The timey-wimey stuff was far too wibbly-wobbly
January 8, 2021
convoluted and uneven volume. Some good art, some bad art. Not worth the investment to get this far into the series.
February 4, 2019
It's dumb and bad. I can't decide if it is more dumb than bad, but it is definitely bad and also dumb.
February 23, 2017
I was left utterly disappointed with the last 15-ish issues of Superboy. Conner caught my attention while I was reading Teen Titans, so I went ahead to read his solo series. In all, the first half of the series has its strong points. Seeing him as a Teen Titan, and seeing him as in individual character was very interesting and it gave me a better understanding of him, and his past.
Tie-ins with Superman and Supergirl were both quite pleasant to read. I liked very much both H'el on Earth, and Krypton Returns where I am introduced to the Superfam properly (i've not read any of their comics thus far, but have knowledge of certain events that surround them).
When Vol 5 hit, I was lost. I didnt care enough about Jon. I cared that he took over Conner's body (Superior Spider-Man much?) but I wanted to see how Conner was fighting inside his mind. Halfway with the arc, it seemed like Jon (who was so dead set on mass murder of metas) had a reshuffle of personalities. When Conner finally came back, it's like /he/ was a reshuffle too because suddenly he's such an understading saint?! And he's OK with Jon taking over his body because Jon's actions are suddenly justified when he was thrown into time and space.
Enter past!Jon the original psycho killer. The ending was so iffy I cannot even begin to formulate proper thoughts on it. Vol 5 was a perfect example of how NOT to mix clones, time, space, and drama. Just... no.
I wanted more of Conner Kent, Superboy. Himself, with the Teen Titans here and there, with Clark and Kara and their Kryptonian adventures. Those were /good/.
It started off really good, and unfortunately ended so horribly. I also felt that the writers didn't know how to flesh our Conner as an individual character because he's always been with affiliated with the Teen Titans (and for some, Young Justice). They had to tie in two events /with/ the Superboy volumes and even then, it seemed like he was just a side character, which saddens me.
Started great, went downhill, could've been better.
Tie-ins with Superman and Supergirl were both quite pleasant to read. I liked very much both H'el on Earth, and Krypton Returns where I am introduced to the Superfam properly (i've not read any of their comics thus far, but have knowledge of certain events that surround them).
When Vol 5 hit, I was lost. I didnt care enough about Jon. I cared that he took over Conner's body (Superior Spider-Man much?) but I wanted to see how Conner was fighting inside his mind. Halfway with the arc, it seemed like Jon (who was so dead set on mass murder of metas) had a reshuffle of personalities. When Conner finally came back, it's like /he/ was a reshuffle too because suddenly he's such an understading saint?! And he's OK with Jon taking over his body because Jon's actions are suddenly justified when he was thrown into time and space.
Enter past!Jon the original psycho killer. The ending was so iffy I cannot even begin to formulate proper thoughts on it. Vol 5 was a perfect example of how NOT to mix clones, time, space, and drama. Just... no.
I wanted more of Conner Kent, Superboy. Himself, with the Teen Titans here and there, with Clark and Kara and their Kryptonian adventures. Those were /good/.
It started off really good, and unfortunately ended so horribly. I also felt that the writers didn't know how to flesh our Conner as an individual character because he's always been with affiliated with the Teen Titans (and for some, Young Justice). They had to tie in two events /with/ the Superboy volumes and even then, it seemed like he was just a side character, which saddens me.
Started great, went downhill, could've been better.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 26, 2016
Ah look, here comes Superboy to screw things up again. This oversized volume feels almost like an apology for the character, but it's a bear to read. Especially the first issues, where Superboy is an all-out villain; the motivations behind it aren't emphasized enough here to justify the total jerkishness of his behavior, and his ultimate plan is complicated to the point of absurdity. Then we have the redemption arc, where because some people (humans, not metas) are nice to him, Superboy gets better... And then there's the Superboy con, which is trying so hard to make sense of all the different superboys, but it gets lost in its own explanations, so ends everything with punching and resetting.
The art's decent throughout, although the artist never does a great job differentiating the different shades of Superboy Jon/Kon from each other, which just adds more confusion to an already overly-intricate plot. But it ends with things basically back to the status quo, maybe with a knot of the character plotting finally untangled. But this is really only for major Superboy fans - casual readers won't find much to like here.
The art's decent throughout, although the artist never does a great job differentiating the different shades of Superboy Jon/Kon from each other, which just adds more confusion to an already overly-intricate plot. But it ends with things basically back to the status quo, maybe with a knot of the character plotting finally untangled. But this is really only for major Superboy fans - casual readers won't find much to like here.
February 27, 2015
There is some great fun potential in here with alternate timelines and Superboy versions. But in the end it fails to payoff since it undoes bold choices made earlier in the title.
Additionally this is probably the first volume I have ever read where letters hurt the experience. The volume includes the work of multiple letters. In some cases facing pages are clearly lettered by different people as the left page would have a heavy fuzzy style while the right side would use a clean thin style of letter. The jumping around between the two styles was not tied to a setting change and it completely pulled me out of the story.
Additionally this is probably the first volume I have ever read where letters hurt the experience. The volume includes the work of multiple letters. In some cases facing pages are clearly lettered by different people as the left page would have a heavy fuzzy style while the right side would use a clean thin style of letter. The jumping around between the two styles was not tied to a setting change and it completely pulled me out of the story.
August 26, 2014
Was expecting better from Marv Wolfman, the man behind Marvel's old Tomb of Dracula and DC's best incarnation of the Teen Titans. He played it a little too slow to get to the present day where the meat of the story was to reside. Pity, because I think it really would have rocked, but you simply can't play those long multi-issue prologues anymore. The average price of $3-5 bucks a pop for a single issue of most books leaves you with an impatient reading audience.
December 4, 2017
At first I thought Superboy was a very interesting character, he is trying to figure out who he is and where he belongs. But the story is so confusing, villains appear and disappear, problems are never resolved. And I felt so lost.
Also, these last issues are not even about Superboy, but a new character who I really didn't care. I didn't know him, and I wanted to know what the hell happened to Kon. I don't even know why I wasted my time with this.
Also, these last issues are not even about Superboy, but a new character who I really didn't care. I didn't know him, and I wanted to know what the hell happened to Kon. I don't even know why I wasted my time with this.
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