DC's Kal-El-fornia Love #1

by Joshua Hale Fialkov, Dave Wielgos, Brandon Thomas

The whole Super-Family is hitting the road in a series of action-packed adventures across the great state of California. Supergirl’s day at the beach is interrupted by a demonic creature from the deep and John Constantine! Jon and Conner Kent team up to wrangle an escaped beast in the Redwoods! Bizarro (literally) crashes an audition for a major motion picture! And join Superman and Lois as a kaiju from the California Ocean comes for their family vacation! The Summer of Superman is heating up, so slather on some sunscreen and snag your latest beach read—in stores this July!

85 pages, ebook

Published July 30, 2025

About the author

Joshua Hale Fialkov is the creator (or co-creator, depending) of graphic novels, including the Harvey Nominated Elk’s Run, the Harvey and Eisner nominated Tumor, Punks the Comic, and the Harvey Nominated Echoes.

He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.

He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.

Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.

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Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography

Reviews

[Madison Head · Rating 4 out of 5]

These were all individual stories that happened to take place in California. Some of them were amazing. Some of them were kinda bad.

[Emile Rudoy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Como todas estas antologías tiene historias buenas y malas. Mi favorita fue la de Jimmy Olsen, está muy divertida. También me gustó la de Superman. En la de Lois Lane me gustó que regresaran a Lucy. Se que soy una persona a la que le gusta mas lo anterior, pero extraño verla como personaje de soporte. La de Ice/Power Girl está increíblemente dibujada. Ojalá pronto le den un cómic regular a Bruno Abdias, lástima que la historia es una mierda que aliena a algunos lectores intentando ser políticamente correcta. La que si odié fue la de los Superboys. En fin, la pasé mejor que con otras antologías, pero nada completamente memorable.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorite stories in this were the Jimmy Olsen one, the Bizarro one, and the Jon and Conner one. I guess Jimmy dated a gorilla named Bruna at some point? Was funny seeing him challenge Grodd. Despite his missteps, it was sweet seeing Bizarro save a cat and learn a lesson after reading for the part of Superman. (He also went to Louisianna instead of Los Angeles by mistake.) And I loved the bonding between Jon and Conner. Both different from Superman but still part of the family. I guess they haven't known each other that well? Would love to see more team-ups between them in Jon's series.

[Cazadora De Mundos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pequeñas historias de la superfamilia.
La historia de Bizarro me quiso hacer derramar lágrimas, la de Power girl me gustó es tiempo de chicas, la de Superman me gusta hasta ahí, por parte de los Superboyz pudo ser mejor.
Me gustó la combinación de SúpergirlxConstantine.
Las demás están para pasar el rato.

[Kat Siegel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun group of non-interconnected summer stories following DC heroes