Category: Superboy
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Cary Bates, Jim Shooter (script) Mike Grell, Michael Netzer (pencils) Bob Wiacek, Bob Layton (inks) Jack C. Harris (assistant editor) Murray Boltinoff (editor) Mike Grell gets an inker for his pencils on the feature, but Bob Wiacek doesn’t bring anything to improve on them. In fact, the figures might be worse. Some of the close-ups,…
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Jim Shooter (script) Mike Grell (artist) Jack C. Harris (assistant editor) Murray Boltinoff (editor) Ken Klaczak (suggestion) Without getting effusive, this issue might be one of artist Mike Grell and writer Jim Shooter’s best Superboy collaborations. There’s only so much wrong with it; they both keep the comic packed and moving, and none of the…
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Cary Bates (script) Mike Grell (artist) Jack C. Harris (assistant editor) Murray Boltinoff (editor) This issue features Tyroc’s formal admission to the Legion, which will be handled entirely in long shot. Given it’s the ostensible point of the whole issue—the story’s about Tyroc’s last test before membership—the abrupt finish is a little disconcerting. Except it…
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Jim Shooter 1, Cary Bates 2 (script) Mike Grell (artist 1, pencils 2) Bill Draut (inks 2) Ben Oda 1, Joe Letterese 2 (letters Jack C. Harris (assistant editor) Murray Boltinoff (editor) Ah, yes, the valiant superheroes of the future… who are willing to sacrifice a little kid’s life because they don’t like him. Well,…
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Jim Shooter (script) Mike Grell (artist 1, pencils 2) Bill Draut (inks 2) Jack C. Harris (assistant editor) Murray Boltinoff (editor) Despite a poor opening, the feature’s not terrible. I mean, Mike Grell’s mid-forties-looking Superboy is always a thing, but otherwise—besides the incessant bickering between the Legionnaires—it’s an okay story. Once you get past Superboy’s…
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Jim Shooter (script) Mike Grell (artist) Ben Oda (letters) Jack C. Harris (assistant editor) Murray Boltinoff (editor) Jim Shooter and Mike Grell contribute both stories this issue and offer little quarter. Grell’s art is slightly better than usual (or at least not as obviously deficient), and I guess Shooter could be worse. The first story…
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Jim Shooter 1, Cary Bates 2 (script) Mike Grell (artist) Ben Oda 1, Joe Letterese 2 (letters) Murray Boltinoff (editor) The first story, from Jim Shooter and Mike Grell, opens with Princess Projectra’s shuttle crashing as she attempts to land at Legion headquarters. Timber Wolf is there to save the day, complaining about “women drivers”…
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Cary Bates (script) Mike Grell (artist) Ben Oda (letters) Murray Boltinoff (editor) What a strange comic book. Cary Bates and Mike Grell contribute both parts, feature and backup, though “feature” is a bit of a stretch. The lead story is a retcon. In the farther-flung future than the Legion of Superheroes, future Earthlings are obsessed…
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Today, a full month later than I’d hoped but a couple weeks before I feared, I’m dropping The Comix Section #1, an e-zine of comic book criticism. If you have a good color printer, lots of ink, legal-sized paper, and a powerful stapler, it can also be a paper zine. It was meant to be…
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Lobdell, always original, opens with an “homage” to Pulp Fiction. Along with Silva and Lean’s sparse, awkward artwork, it does not suggest this issue of Superboy will be an improvement on the last. Silva, who I apparently found okay before, is really lousy here. There are a couple panels I can’t believe DC let be…
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I feel like Lobdell’s approach to Superboy is to fling as much senseless garbage at the reader as possible and how they ignore the lack of story. Or the endless comparisons to Marvel’s Ultimate Universe. N.O.W.H.E.R.E.? Really? DC really went to Warner Bros. and sold them on doing a knock-off Ultimate Universe, complete with stand-ins…
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Did Scott Lobdell come up with the new Superboy approach, I wonder… It’s compelling. Superboy’s still a clone, but the comic is going to examine his creation. It’s a mix of Species, Supreme Power and The Incredible Hulk–at least the Robert Downey Jr. cameo. In other words, it is not original. Not in any way…
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