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A review by mjd3jaggy
Superman: American Alien by Max Landis
5.0
I’ve been meaning to read more comics and this came highly recommended by one of my good friends. Spider-Man has always been my favorite superhero (I pretended it was human torch for a while when I was younger, but I was lying cuz I wanted to be different), and I’ve only really read his comics, but I’ve been meaning to branch out. And since Superman hasn’t gotten a ton of great film representation I’ve been wanting to explore his character through the comics because I want to see firsthand why the character is so beloved. This is a great start.
To start, it’s a lot funnier than I expected. Obviously, since this is only a 7 issue comic, not all of the Superman characters are going to be allowed to have a ton of important “screen time.” However, there were a lot of fun interactions. The story is focused a lot on Clark’s struggle with being an alien, and how he overcomes it to embrace his true identity as a human/American. There’s some really powerful conversations with his mom, his best friend from Smallville and Lois about his identity as Superman and Clark Kent. There’s also some less serious and fun interactions with Batman, Oliver Queen and Deathstroke. And there’s some great Clark Kent’s interviews with Oliver Queen again and Lex Luthor. Overall, it’s an extremely well-written comic about the most iconic superhero and what makes him so great. I’m excited to read more about him.
To start, it’s a lot funnier than I expected. Obviously, since this is only a 7 issue comic, not all of the Superman characters are going to be allowed to have a ton of important “screen time.” However, there were a lot of fun interactions. The story is focused a lot on Clark’s struggle with being an alien, and how he overcomes it to embrace his true identity as a human/American. There’s some really powerful conversations with his mom, his best friend from Smallville and Lois about his identity as Superman and Clark Kent. There’s also some less serious and fun interactions with Batman, Oliver Queen and Deathstroke. And there’s some great Clark Kent’s interviews with Oliver Queen again and Lex Luthor. Overall, it’s an extremely well-written comic about the most iconic superhero and what makes him so great. I’m excited to read more about him.