Here is something I was initially intrigued with: a battle between the modern-day incarnation of Superman and a reasonable facsimile of the 1940s-Superman. Make no mistake… DC pulled this same stunt with Wonder Woman a while back: the modern-day incarnation meets up with the 1940s-version on the cover, only to have WW meet up with her mother in the past in the actual book. But people are thinking that they won’t actually pull the same thing twice, right?
The old adage of “Never judge a book by its cover” has never been so true.
Don’t kid yourself here though. There actually is a super-human being running around looking like 1940s-Superman. Heck, he’s even drawn in the same style and nicely done too in contrast to the current art included in the issue, which is also pretty good. Unfortunately, this is the only Superman-type character you’re going to see in this issue; the modern Kal-El is trying to convince an old man to delete his fictional work about a superhero. There’s nothing special behind this issue; it’s your typical “metahuman good-guy who uses brute force and eventually goes berserk” story. Only difference this time is that they’re using a character whose style comes from the early days. Nonetheless, it’s not a spectacular
This is worth buying if you’re a Superman completist, a regular fan of the franchise, or just get a kick out of seeing a guy drawn in the style of the forties beat on a bunch of cops drawn in the current style. Just don’t jump into this issue expecting what the cover shows and declares, because it is misleading (there is no battle between Man of Yesterday vs. Man of Tomorrow).
What’s next? Is Batman going to have an issue in which the cover shows the current-age Batman facing off against the 1940s Batman, only to be squaring off against 60s-style Batman?
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