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tawfek's review
4.0
This volume have two story lines that are intertwined in a pretty good way
First the daemonite story line which we haven't seen the end of , second the anguish and the soviet submarine storyline , And yeah you guessed it right the daemonite story line is the real deal its crossing over to many other comics which we really don't have to read ,So far its proving to be the best storyline about superman i have read with origins for the daemonites and i predict origins for the kryptonians run in with the daemonites as well since Helspont knows Jor-El superman's father.
I loved Anguish she might become A hero in the future who knows but she sure is not a villain.
I don't know the big idea about Portraying the Russians as evil always in American comics but we got used to it already , Lets just say we knows the big picture and it wont affect our view to the real world politics.
Oh almost forgot to speak about the aliens the Russians kidnapped he has a point doesn't he ?
And its the second time we see Superman having a conversation with a so called "villain" since i don't consider the alien a villain as well we kidnapped him and he stroke back against us its only fair
we have a saying in Egypt it goes like this " if you are going to summon a demon you have to be able to send him away" They summoned an alien who they cant control and they got whats coming for them.
First the daemonite story line which we haven't seen the end of , second the anguish and the soviet submarine storyline , And yeah you guessed it right the daemonite story line is the real deal its crossing over to many other comics which we really don't have to read ,So far its proving to be the best storyline about superman i have read with origins for the daemonites and i predict origins for the kryptonians run in with the daemonites as well since Helspont knows Jor-El superman's father.
I loved Anguish she might become A hero in the future who knows but she sure is not a villain.
I don't know the big idea about Portraying the Russians as evil always in American comics but we got used to it already , Lets just say we knows the big picture and it wont affect our view to the real world politics.
Oh almost forgot to speak about the aliens the Russians kidnapped he has a point doesn't he ?
And its the second time we see Superman having a conversation with a so called "villain" since i don't consider the alien a villain as well we kidnapped him and he stroke back against us its only fair
we have a saying in Egypt it goes like this " if you are going to summon a demon you have to be able to send him away" They summoned an alien who they cant control and they got whats coming for them.
coolnameguy's review
3.0
#7 set up a really cool premise, but it was completely forgotten in the very next issue. The rest were hit and miss. The character writing for better, but everything else is still really dull. May give up on this one soon, unless I find out Geoff Johns starts writing this, he tends to nail Superman.
jammasterjamie's review
3.0
Better than Morrisons run on Action comics, but that's not really saying much, is it? Great art, glad to see the return of Jurgens, but there's something with the New 52 Superman that I'm just not connecting with.
rhganci's review
2.0
Scott Lobdell makes a play to get things going in a cohesive direction by the time the annual comes along, but by then, SUPERMAN VOL. 2: SECRETS AND LIES is a pretty messy mix of weird personal crisis, alien threats, and green monsters.
There's really not a lot to say here beyond my view that the story doesn't really communicate anything very heroic beyond the fact that Superman can stop things that he is stronger than, and gets absolutely pounded on when something else confronts him. There's a lot of that--Superman getting punched, kicked, de-uniformed, and thrown into the surface of the moon. Helspont is kind of the central villain, but the rest of the lot comes and goes, especially in a brief arc involving some kind of vestigial Cold War mistrust between the U.S. and Russia, in which some Russian guy named Ivan (really) assumed that Superman was American and decided to steal a Superman, or a Superman-like being, from another dimension. It backfired, predictably, and there was a net change of zero as a result.
I guess that describes the overall effect of the book--the writers cobble a series of similar, and therefore repetitive, storylines together, but nothing comes of it. The entire book essentially kills time, serving only as a mild connective tissue between the early teases in volume 1 and the HEL ON EARTH crossover that is on its way later this summer. There's just not a whole lot of substance here, and the story lacks any discernable suspense or character development to make it a memorable issue.
There's really not a lot to say here beyond my view that the story doesn't really communicate anything very heroic beyond the fact that Superman can stop things that he is stronger than, and gets absolutely pounded on when something else confronts him. There's a lot of that--Superman getting punched, kicked, de-uniformed, and thrown into the surface of the moon. Helspont is kind of the central villain, but the rest of the lot comes and goes, especially in a brief arc involving some kind of vestigial Cold War mistrust between the U.S. and Russia, in which some Russian guy named Ivan (really) assumed that Superman was American and decided to steal a Superman, or a Superman-like being, from another dimension. It backfired, predictably, and there was a net change of zero as a result.
I guess that describes the overall effect of the book--the writers cobble a series of similar, and therefore repetitive, storylines together, but nothing comes of it. The entire book essentially kills time, serving only as a mild connective tissue between the early teases in volume 1 and the HEL ON EARTH crossover that is on its way later this summer. There's just not a whole lot of substance here, and the story lacks any discernable suspense or character development to make it a memorable issue.
shannonleighd's review
3.0
I'm not really a Superman fan but I don't usually dislike him. He's just kind of "meh" for me. What's funny though, is whenever I seem to like a volume he's in the people that are actually fans don't. Not sure why that is! I enjoyed this volume, I think largely in part because there's not much "Clark at work" in any of the stories. We get a little bit of a side story concerning Lois and her sister Lucy, but it wasn't a huge part of any of the issues.
Although, I understand Clark can be a bit spacey (heh) but really I put him not showing up or forgetting something squarely on Lois's, Lucy's, and Jimmy's shoulders. Why would you ask someone in quick succession with other people to do various things without any confirmation? It's a lazy trope and one I hope doesn't show up in this series again.
Overall this was a pretty good volume though. Way better than the first.
Although, I understand Clark can be a bit spacey (heh) but really I put him not showing up or forgetting something squarely on Lois's, Lucy's, and Jimmy's shoulders. Why would you ask someone in quick succession with other people to do various things without any confirmation? It's a lazy trope and one I hope doesn't show up in this series again.
Overall this was a pretty good volume though. Way better than the first.
sans's review
2.0
Of all the graphic novels I own, I started with this one. Not sure why, but I had to start somewhere, right?
There were some amusing lines that did little to improve a pretty mediocre collection of stories. Superman is a hit or miss character with more misses than hits (for me at least). This is just the latest miss.
There were some amusing lines that did little to improve a pretty mediocre collection of stories. Superman is a hit or miss character with more misses than hits (for me at least). This is just the latest miss.
birdmanseven's review
2.0
This had the flashy stink of a 90s era misfire. Not good and completely forgettable. Get it together, DC. Also the new costume is dumb. Superman shouldn't be wearing a turtleneck.