Superman Special #1 Review

DC Comics So after the milestone release of Action Comics #1000 and before the pending release of Bendis’ The Man of Steel mini-series, DC Comics has decided to gift us a small anthology of Superman stories to tide us over. We’ll be talking about each three stories in brief. For Those Who Serve Writer: Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason / Artist: Scott Godlewski Unsurprisingly my favorite story of the anthology, For Those Who Serve acts as yet another coda to the Tomasi/Gleason run on the character, this time closing out a plot point from way back when: Captain Storm being stranded on Dinosaur Island, brilliantly captured by Scott Godlewski. Jon Kent, a.k.a Superboy a.k.a. Best Thing to Happen to Superman, opens the story with narration that immediately reinforces the fact we’re dealing with a kid who continually wants to help others even if there is a large risk involved. When Superman gets home, there’s not a moment to lose and the two go off to do some science and find a way back to the island where they rescue Captain Storm and slowly reintegrated him to modern society.

The story is poignant and subtle in its delivery and ends with perhaps what is the greatest burn towards Batman/the greatest acknowledgment of Lois Lane, and I am always finding myself wishing for more time. Strays and Strangers Writer: Mark Russell / Artist: Bryan Hitch Russell and Hitch’s endeavor is on a drastically different scale than either of the other stories, because it’s a mostly self-contain refl…