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Superman: Villains #1
The Man of Steel’s greatest villains react to the biggest news to ever rock the DC Universe. Lex Luthor, Mongul, Toyman, The Joker, and more of the world’s greatest villains must come to grips with how the world changes now that the truth has been revealed by Superman. Some of comics’ most unique and creative voices unite to tell a story that changes all the rules.
- GenresComics
48 pages, Paperback
Published March 4, 2020
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About the author
Matt Fraction
1,221 books1,864 followers"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
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June 2, 2020
Superman:Heroes and Superman: Villains appear to be the end of my pre-quarantine stack. I may take a break from comics for a little bit.
The news in the DC/Bendisverse is that Superman is telling the World that he's Clark Kent. These purely ancillary bookends could actually be a lot of fun. Essentially, a book apiece about how the Superhero and Supervillain community handle the news.
There's a bunch of people working on this with Bendis and Fraction the writers (with Rucka on Heroes and Jody Houser on Villains) and various artists, colorists, and letterers.
I generally hate these kind of one-offs, but this could be a really, really cool book. Can you imagine how much fan you could have with this premise?
It's quite dull though, like some of the most pedestrian comic writers hammered it out. Bendis's iconic multi-panel dialogue page is here, of course, in its perhaps most uninspired usage to date.
Any memorable moments are likely from Rucka or Fraction, and there's not many of them in Superheroes and less in Villians.
I am probably charitable in reviewing these books together and rounding up to two stars. They are really quite ordinary in something that has so much potential. But more than that, they’re plain tedious. I don't doubt that the main titles will be at least somewhat worthwhile, but skip this.
The news in the DC/Bendisverse is that Superman is telling the World that he's Clark Kent. These purely ancillary bookends could actually be a lot of fun. Essentially, a book apiece about how the Superhero and Supervillain community handle the news.
There's a bunch of people working on this with Bendis and Fraction the writers (with Rucka on Heroes and Jody Houser on Villains) and various artists, colorists, and letterers.
I generally hate these kind of one-offs, but this could be a really, really cool book. Can you imagine how much fan you could have with this premise?
It's quite dull though, like some of the most pedestrian comic writers hammered it out. Bendis's iconic multi-panel dialogue page is here, of course, in its perhaps most uninspired usage to date.
Any memorable moments are likely from Rucka or Fraction, and there's not many of them in Superheroes and less in Villians.
I am probably charitable in reviewing these books together and rounding up to two stars. They are really quite ordinary in something that has so much potential. But more than that, they’re plain tedious. I don't doubt that the main titles will be at least somewhat worthwhile, but skip this.
February 10, 2021
Mais um especial capitaneado por Brian Michael Bendis para descrever, dessa vez, a reação dos Vilões acerca da revelação do Superman ser ao mesmo tempo o jonalista Clark Kent. Auxiliado por Matt Fraction e por Jody Hauser neste especial, desta vez é o texto do próprio Brian Bendis que se destaca dos demais. Mas mesmo assim, como fazia na Marvel, a história em quadrinhos traz alguns erros cronológicos que uma pesquisa ou uma leitura atenta ao que foi publicado anteriormente poderia ter sanado. Por exemplo, nesta HQ os pais de Clark Kent/Superman, Jonathan e Martha Kent de Smallville estão vivos e o Homem dos Brinquedos é retratado como o supervilão clássico, quando o advento dos Novso 52 trouxe uma nova versão dele, mais tecnológica e asiática. São coisas como essa que deixam a história em quadrinhos mais fraca e, se quisermos ser radicais, bastante desnecessaria se comparada com a edição dedica da aos heróis e personagens coadjuvantes do universo do Homem de Aço.
March 27, 2020
The only 5 star review on this? Seriously? I could count off the top of my head the only Superman comics of the last 35 years I have NOT read. If you don’t love this you don’t like Superman. Go read Batman. Or Wolverine. That being said this, along with heroes, really hits home for me for the nostalgia factor alone. Back in the day the one shot specials that kicked off or capped off major events in the super books were a regular deal. The Wedding Album. Superman Red/Superman Blue. Superman Forever. Save The Planet. King of The World. Y2K came after the greats but that was still a good time. To get not one but two of these in the same monthly shipment from DCBS....it was awesome. For them to be so good also? Such a bonus. They just pulled the identity reveal trick 4 years ago but that whole storyline was 3 stars at best and definitely regularly 2 stars by the end. I blame editorial because I can see from Superman Smashes The Klan that Gene Luen Yang knows and loves Superman. Maybe I’m drinking the kool aid but I love what Bendis is doing. To see so much of it coming together here and successfully setting up some potentially great stuff in the near future? This is how comics are supposed to be.
July 6, 2021
I thought Pa Kent was dead....what gives??
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