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Super Sons #3
Super Sons: Escape to Landis
Finishing the thrilling adventure that began in The PolarShield Project, a mysterious new foe plans to release a deadly virus, launching the sons of the world’s two greatest superheroes on their biggest mission yet! With the news of the Four Fingers taking refuge in the land of Landis, Batkid, Superboy, and Tilly begin their journey to stop the deadly virus from being unleashed onto the world. Meanwhile, Candace has found her way to Landis and is taken underground to a group of people who still believe her to be the true queen of Landis. Our team is reunited in an action-packed adventure through the desert of Landis, an unknown territory filled with unknown dangers! New York Times bestselling author Ridley Pearson (Kingdom Keepers) and artist Ile Gonzalez bring the epic conclusion to a story three books in the making. Don’t miss the Super Sons of Superman and Batman as they spring into action on what might be their final mission!
157 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 6, 2020
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About the author
Ridley Pearson
187 books2,109 followersRidley Pearson is the author of more than fifty novels, including the New York Times bestseller Killer Weekend; the Lou Boldt crime series; and many books for young readers, including the award-winning children's novels Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, which he cowrote with Dave Barry. Pearson lives with his wife and two daughters, dividing their time between Missouri and Idaho.
Also writes Chris Klick mysteries as Wendell McCall.
Also writes Chris Klick mysteries as Wendell McCall.
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January 25, 2021
I am not impressed. The story is predictable, childish, rushed jumping from one thing to another.
I like that artwork but hated the boys costume design. I hate the that after all the time working together they are still surprised by Superboy's powers. One minute Ian is smart and secretive then he is taking selfies with girls while he us supposed to be under cover. The revelation to Ian got less then a page.
I kept getting these books hoping they hit better. I though after the last book the peices are in place, but this book was just a rush to try and cover everything and doing nothing really well.
I like that artwork but hated the boys costume design. I hate the that after all the time working together they are still surprised by Superboy's powers. One minute Ian is smart and secretive then he is taking selfies with girls while he us supposed to be under cover. The revelation to Ian got less then a page.
I kept getting these books hoping they hit better. I though after the last book the peices are in place, but this book was just a rush to try and cover everything and doing nothing really well.
November 11, 2020
This series is terrible. I get the impression that Ridley Pearson had already written this story before DC contacted him about writing a book for them and just shoe horned in Damian (I refuse to call him Ian) Wayne and Jon Kent. Metropolis and Gotham are in some made up country for some reason. Damian goes by Batkid instead of Robin and his suit is just some skateboard gear. The villains have names like Cray Ving and G. Reed. It's all childish and stupid. The entire book is just Damian and Jon running from one thing to another. If I was a kid, I'd feel insulted by this book.
June 12, 2021
Super Sons: Escape to Landis is a graphic novel and is written by Ridley Pearson and illustrated by Ile Gonzalez. The super duo of Jon Kent and Damian "Ian" Wayne concludes their adventure in this sequel to Super Sons: The Polarshield Project and Super Sons: The Foxglove Mission.
Damian "Ian" Wayne, Jonathan Kent, and their friend Tilly aka Puppet-Girl spend a lot of time running around warehouses looking for clues and fighting generic foes before they get an ally and the clue they need to take the next step of their journey – flying across the ocean to Landis to find the warehouse holding the virus they need to make the antidote to cure Lois Lane.
Meanwhile, Candace discovers that she’s the heir to the kingdom and has to undergo trials to prove herself and gain the chance to wrest the kingdom from the evil usurper. Her allies, including a deadly archer and a blind warrior and they continue to deliver the best scenes.
Super Sons: Escape to Landis is written and constructed moderately well. The pace of the narrative is both frantic and leisurely, as Jonathan Kent and Damian Wayne bip-bop from one chaotic scene to another without accomplishing much and the narrative focuses more on the secondary characters than the titular characters. Gonzalez's artwork is vivid and crisp, riffing on a classic comic style.
Overall, this Super Sons series was written rather evenly, albeit only moderately well. Person has created a world that replaces the well known landmarks of comic continuity – like Gotham City, Metropolis, and real countries for made-up ones. However, more egregiously, for those who are comic purists, the representation of the two titular characters in this particular universe is hardly recognizable from their core continuity counterparts.
All in all, Super Sons: Escape to Landis is a mediocre conclusion to an equally mediocre series.
Damian "Ian" Wayne, Jonathan Kent, and their friend Tilly aka Puppet-Girl spend a lot of time running around warehouses looking for clues and fighting generic foes before they get an ally and the clue they need to take the next step of their journey – flying across the ocean to Landis to find the warehouse holding the virus they need to make the antidote to cure Lois Lane.
Meanwhile, Candace discovers that she’s the heir to the kingdom and has to undergo trials to prove herself and gain the chance to wrest the kingdom from the evil usurper. Her allies, including a deadly archer and a blind warrior and they continue to deliver the best scenes.
Super Sons: Escape to Landis is written and constructed moderately well. The pace of the narrative is both frantic and leisurely, as Jonathan Kent and Damian Wayne bip-bop from one chaotic scene to another without accomplishing much and the narrative focuses more on the secondary characters than the titular characters. Gonzalez's artwork is vivid and crisp, riffing on a classic comic style.
Overall, this Super Sons series was written rather evenly, albeit only moderately well. Person has created a world that replaces the well known landmarks of comic continuity – like Gotham City, Metropolis, and real countries for made-up ones. However, more egregiously, for those who are comic purists, the representation of the two titular characters in this particular universe is hardly recognizable from their core continuity counterparts.
All in all, Super Sons: Escape to Landis is a mediocre conclusion to an equally mediocre series.
March 25, 2021
I originally gave up on this series after the first two books, but after finding out the third one would be the last, I wanted to be a completionist. This is just as juvenile as it was at the beginning, so if you're like me and thought maybe it would get better, the quality didn't really change. There is kind of a story, but it's super rushed, which really doesn't make sense given that this isn't a one-off story. Stuff comes up at the end (like Talia) that really feels like it should have been introduced earlier.
September 22, 2023
After a 3 year hiatus, I finally came across the third and final book of Ridley Pearson's Super Sons trilogy. This is definitely something I don't recommend as such a long gap between volumes can really make someone forget a lot of the minutia. It's those littlest of details that distinguish this vision of the heirs of Batman and Superman from the main DC Universe version. But they're also the subtle changes that greatly influence the plot.
A quick summary of what happened prior is that the sons of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne meet after rising floodwaters caused by climate change, displace the Kent family deeper into Batman territory. Superman has gone to Mars to collect a special dust that may help a series of weather satellites deflect some of the sun's most potent rays. Meanwhile, Batman is busy trying to stop a deadly flu-like plague which has already killed hundreds and now threatens the life of Lois Lane.
In Volume 2, Jon Kent and Damian Wayne met a new girl at their school named Candace, who is the exiled child ruler of the faraway kingdom of Landis. The Super Sons and Candace learn that the Governor General of the land of Coleumbria, which houses cities like Metropolis and Gotham City, plans to weaponize the virus and use it to destroy Landis. As Candace races back to Landis to save her people, Jon and Damian, along with their friend Tilly are working to find the cure for the virus. Only, the trio are now in hiding as the evil rulers of Coleumbria have identified them and have placed assassins on their tail to stop them from their goal of saving both Coleumbira and Landis.
I had said in reviewing book 2 that it just felt that too much stuff was being crammed into what will turn out to be a trilogy. I really felt like a 4th book was going to be needed in order to make everything come to a satisfying end. Writer Ridley Pearson stuck to the trilogy format and it didn't feel rushed to make all of these dangling plot threads come together in just 150 pages. I still don't understand why the names of these different regions and even some cities are different from our worlds. In the monthly DC books, Metropolis and Gotham are in the United States. I'm also not sure if Candace is supposed to be a version of Wonder Woman or Vixen. Maybe she, along with Tilly, are all-new characters that incorporate elements of other characters from DC lore. I'm just not that sure as there are so many other canonical characters in this trilogy like Perry White and a female version of Jimmy Olsen.
Ile Gonzalez continues as the artist of this series. Her art is pretty good. Though some of her facial expressions on characters, especially villains are a bit too exaggerated for my taste. But I really liked her dynamic framing of this book; especially the scene where Candace is meandering through a crawlspace. Gonzalez frames the story with these twists and turns that show the character moving about gingerly in between frames of action outside of the air vents. Such a Jack Kirby or Will Eisner thing to do in which I am a huge fan of both!
As much as the ending of this trilogy was satisfying for me, I was even more pumped for the beginning of a new graphic novel by Pearson which is previewed at book's end. Called Indestructibles: The First Fracture, this book promises a super hero group of all-new characters. For those who complain of modern reboots of your favorite characters which involve the changing of race, sex or gender identity and wish that the big comic publishers would focus on creating all-new characters, you've been granted your request. Just don't expect to see a sequel. As with just about any comic book or graphic novel by DC or Marvel that introduces all-new characters, it didn't sell very well. In fact, it did so poorly, I can't even find it on Amazon!
The Super Sons trilogy has come to a close. It was a good read. It's just not a world I need to visit again. Until I can understand better why Ridley Pearson needed to create a whole slew of new continents and nations for this book, I think I am better off just sticking with the Super Sons of the monthly DC floppies. Plus, having a deadly virus take over the world just in time for a pandemic is kinda eerie and not how I want to escape into comic books from the real world. I need my fantasy to be just that, a mindless trip away from reality and it's troubles.
A quick summary of what happened prior is that the sons of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne meet after rising floodwaters caused by climate change, displace the Kent family deeper into Batman territory. Superman has gone to Mars to collect a special dust that may help a series of weather satellites deflect some of the sun's most potent rays. Meanwhile, Batman is busy trying to stop a deadly flu-like plague which has already killed hundreds and now threatens the life of Lois Lane.
In Volume 2, Jon Kent and Damian Wayne met a new girl at their school named Candace, who is the exiled child ruler of the faraway kingdom of Landis. The Super Sons and Candace learn that the Governor General of the land of Coleumbria, which houses cities like Metropolis and Gotham City, plans to weaponize the virus and use it to destroy Landis. As Candace races back to Landis to save her people, Jon and Damian, along with their friend Tilly are working to find the cure for the virus. Only, the trio are now in hiding as the evil rulers of Coleumbria have identified them and have placed assassins on their tail to stop them from their goal of saving both Coleumbira and Landis.
I had said in reviewing book 2 that it just felt that too much stuff was being crammed into what will turn out to be a trilogy. I really felt like a 4th book was going to be needed in order to make everything come to a satisfying end. Writer Ridley Pearson stuck to the trilogy format and it didn't feel rushed to make all of these dangling plot threads come together in just 150 pages. I still don't understand why the names of these different regions and even some cities are different from our worlds. In the monthly DC books, Metropolis and Gotham are in the United States. I'm also not sure if Candace is supposed to be a version of Wonder Woman or Vixen. Maybe she, along with Tilly, are all-new characters that incorporate elements of other characters from DC lore. I'm just not that sure as there are so many other canonical characters in this trilogy like Perry White and a female version of Jimmy Olsen.
Ile Gonzalez continues as the artist of this series. Her art is pretty good. Though some of her facial expressions on characters, especially villains are a bit too exaggerated for my taste. But I really liked her dynamic framing of this book; especially the scene where Candace is meandering through a crawlspace. Gonzalez frames the story with these twists and turns that show the character moving about gingerly in between frames of action outside of the air vents. Such a Jack Kirby or Will Eisner thing to do in which I am a huge fan of both!
As much as the ending of this trilogy was satisfying for me, I was even more pumped for the beginning of a new graphic novel by Pearson which is previewed at book's end. Called Indestructibles: The First Fracture, this book promises a super hero group of all-new characters. For those who complain of modern reboots of your favorite characters which involve the changing of race, sex or gender identity and wish that the big comic publishers would focus on creating all-new characters, you've been granted your request. Just don't expect to see a sequel. As with just about any comic book or graphic novel by DC or Marvel that introduces all-new characters, it didn't sell very well. In fact, it did so poorly, I can't even find it on Amazon!
The Super Sons trilogy has come to a close. It was a good read. It's just not a world I need to visit again. Until I can understand better why Ridley Pearson needed to create a whole slew of new continents and nations for this book, I think I am better off just sticking with the Super Sons of the monthly DC floppies. Plus, having a deadly virus take over the world just in time for a pandemic is kinda eerie and not how I want to escape into comic books from the real world. I need my fantasy to be just that, a mindless trip away from reality and it's troubles.
February 28, 2021
Worst comic book series I've read by far, and I have read lots of bad comic books.
Nothing makes sense.
I know the writer didn't know the characters intimately but how dare he calls these pathetic characters Batman, Superman, Superboy and Batkid. Don't even start me on Talia.
Demon's daughter couldn't trace two kids in a desert!? Are you kidding me?
The greatest detective on the world couldn't retrieve a tiny bottle so he asked his son to do it!?
Superman, literally an alien who can fly was on a space ship for months so he could get some dust from Mars!? He has super speed he could do it in hours! Also he has a buddy in Mars who calls himself Martian Manhunter, why didn't anyone asked him for it?
Scientists need some dust because icebergs are melting!? The world is protected by an alien who is called Superman, he has freeze breath why don't you try that first?
I'm gonna stop ranting cuz this series doesn't even deserve that.
Nothing makes sense.
I know the writer didn't know the characters intimately but how dare he calls these pathetic characters Batman, Superman, Superboy and Batkid. Don't even start me on Talia.
Demon's daughter couldn't trace two kids in a desert!? Are you kidding me?
The greatest detective on the world couldn't retrieve a tiny bottle so he asked his son to do it!?
Superman, literally an alien who can fly was on a space ship for months so he could get some dust from Mars!? He has super speed he could do it in hours! Also he has a buddy in Mars who calls himself Martian Manhunter, why didn't anyone asked him for it?
Scientists need some dust because icebergs are melting!? The world is protected by an alien who is called Superman, he has freeze breath why don't you try that first?
I'm gonna stop ranting cuz this series doesn't even deserve that.
October 22, 2020
Finale to the young superkids adventure to save the world and help a friend connect to her mystical culture.
October 24, 2020
It's nice to read something that doesn't overly focus on the main heroes
October 31, 2020
The ending is majorly rushed, but kids will probably like the conclusion.
SN: The warrior women were soooo pretty!
2.5
SN: The warrior women were soooo pretty!
2.5
July 26, 2021
It didn't get any better.
September 25, 2022
Conclusion of the trilogy, and…eh, more of the same with extra royalty and Talia Al Ghul.
August 7, 2023
A lot of fun!!
May 3, 2024
Was not a series. But once I read the first . I had to read the rest.
August 2, 2021
This is a good end to the series, and I do think this works overall.
I like that this is doing its own thing, but I wish it felt a little more like the DC world.
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I like that this is doing its own thing, but I wish it felt a little more like the DC world.
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