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Title: In stores February 8, 2006 Post by: Great Rao on February 07, 2006, 10:46:59 AM Just a reminder that Superman 226 (http://dccomics.com/comics/?cm=4805) and JSA 82 (http://dccomics.com/comics/?cm=4833), both featuring the Earth-2 Superman, will be in your local comic shop this week.
(http://superman.nu/kal-l/superman/images/superman226_mini.jpg) :s: Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on February 07, 2006, 10:06:50 PM Oh boy - will he be reaping and killing like his good pal S-boy Prime? :roll:
Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: Super Monkey on February 07, 2006, 10:57:29 PM That's the worst Earth-2 Superman drawing ever :l:
Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: Great Rao on February 07, 2006, 11:08:46 PM I'm just as P.O.'d as the next guy about what DC did to Superboy-Prime, but I'm still looking forward to these two titles. It's been an extremely long time since the Earth-2 Superman's existence was admitted by DC. Now he's finally back in the spotlight and back in the Justice Society of America; a year ago this would have been considered an impossible dream.
Quote from: "Klar Ken T5477" Oh boy - will he be reaping and killing like his good pal S-boy Prime? :roll: It doesn't look it. Seems that Paul is finally getting the chance to wrap-up the JSA. This page is from the NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/books/07levi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin): (http://superman.nu/a/History/levi450.jpg) The Superman issue is most likely a re-telling of the 1938 origin with an E-2 wrapper. :s: Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on February 08, 2006, 08:22:32 AM The JSA dosbanding was also in New Fronteir and I guess Paulie did it first.
And yeah Im not liking the art but did E2 Sman have gray hair already by 1951? :roll: Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: Superman's Pal on February 08, 2006, 09:56:27 AM Quote from: "Klar Ken T5477" And yeah Im not liking the art but did E2 Sman have gray hair already by 1951? The first couple of times Earth 2 Superman appeared in the JLA/JSA team-ups he was pretty much identical to Earth 1 Superman (IIRC even his "S" insignia was the same as Kal-El's). It wasn't until Superman 2 appeared in the 1970s All Star Comics that he was shown with greying temples. Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: nightwing on February 08, 2006, 10:12:31 AM Technically any story printed in 1951 would have been an Earth-2 Superman story, since the Silver Age is usually said to have begun around 1956 (with Showcase #4) or in Superman's case perhaps 1958 (with Action #241).
And none of my copies of comics from that era show Supes with gray hair. I don't think he was shown with gray hair until Levitz and the Giffen/Wood art team brought him back in the All-Star revival of the 70s. Personally, I'm digging the Perez art in a big way. Though I agree the McGuinness cover is no great shakes. Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: Great Rao on February 08, 2006, 02:51:24 PM Quote from: "nightwing" Technically any story printed in 1951 would have been an Earth-2 Superman story, since the Silver Age is usually said to have begun around 1956 (with Showcase #4) or in Superman's case perhaps 1958 (with Action #241). And none of my copies of comics from that era show Supes with gray hair. Nor was he shown working for the Daily Star nor having a costume with a golden-age S logo on it. I think the real guideline for whether or not the Earth-2 Superman should have grey temples in 1951 is his appearance in all those "Mr. and Mrs. Superman" stories. If I recall correctly, he had not yet gone grey. Quote Personally, I'm digging the Perez art in a big way. Though I agree the McGuinness cover is no great shakes. Then perhaps you'll be pleased that the McGuinness cover introduces the Joe Kelly/Howie Chaykin/etc Superman issue and not the Paul Levitz/George Perez JSA issue. I've read both the comics in question and my take on it is that although the Earth-2 Superman is back, he's a different character with a different continuity than the old E-2 Superman. The JSA story was fun. It read like an old issue of All-Star only better and the artwork was fantastic. I made another find while in the shop this week: Alter Ego #56 (http://www.twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=55&products_id=344) was on the stands. It has some fantastic Superman material, including a Neal Adams cover and a never-before-published interview with Jerry, Joanne, and Laura Siegel from 1975. :s: Title: Re: In stores this week Post by: Spaceman Spiff on February 09, 2006, 12:59:50 AM Quote from: "Klar Ken T5477" And yeah Im not liking the art but did E2 Sman have gray hair already by 1951? Quote from: "Superman's Pal" The first couple of times Earth 2 Superman appeared in the JLA/JSA team-ups he was pretty much identical to Earth 1 Superman (IIRC even his "S" insignia was the same as Kal-El's). It wasn't until Superman 2 appeared in the 1970s All Star Comics that he was shown with greying temples. Quote from: "nightwing" I don't think he was shown with gray hair until Levitz and the Giffen/Wood art team brought him back in the All-Star revival of the 70s. E-2 Supes appeared in JLA #73-74, 82-83, 91-92, and 107-108 before All-Star Comics was revived. These are reprinted in the Crisis on Multiple Earths TPBs, the first four in Volume 2 and the last four in Volume 3. In most of these, E-2 Supes looks identical to E-1 Supes. In fact, where they appear together in #91, I don't see any clues to distinguish one from the other. In #107-108, however, E-2 Supes sports the graying temples for the first time. The coloring is less consistent in #107 than in #108, but DC corrected that in the TPB reprints. Even with the difference in hair color, E-2 Superman's costume appeared identical to the E-1 version, and he also appeared to have identical powers. When All-Star Comics appeared in 1976, I was surprised by the lesser powers of Power Girl and Superman, which was inconsistent with what was shown in the JLA/JSA stories just a few years earlier. |