Convergence: Superman #1 Review

writer: Dan Jurgens / artist: Lee Weeks / DC Comics So here we are, DC’s “Convergence” event. Yay… Without going into my personal bellyaching about the event before it gets any footing, there are two things that are most important. One, it’s a cool way to see some pre (or just not New 52) DC characters in action where they might actually count for something moving forward. However, I don’t see any way this doesn’t become just overly complicated and a tangled mess of epic proportions, just off the premise alone. But here we are, so, let’s have some fun with it, right? All that preamble given, I enjoyed Superman Convergence #1. In pre-flashpoint Gotham, Superman has been trapped there, sans powers, since the Braniac dome went up over a year ago (timelines yo, who needs ’em right?). Clark is literally getting his Batman on with Lois playing the part of Oracle when the dome is mysteriously lifted, giving him his powers back and restoring things to the way they used to be. Okay, not really, like at all.

As you know from the Convergence storyline (because I know you spent two hours studying up on this first), Braniac has imprisoned infinite cities and suspended them in time. The Superman crew can’t go back to Metropolis, or the Metropolis they once knew, because it doesn’t really exist anymore. Instead, in some perverse tournament of champions, Braniac is pitting this collection of cities against each other, this particular Gotham City vs Gotham City of Flashpoint. That’s right, T…