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A review by stressedspidergirl
Superman, Volume 1: Before Truth by Gene Luen Yang
3.0
Poor Clark. That's pretty much my summation of this.
He has bad friends who ditch him when his life goes to crap, with the exception of Jimmy who tries to be part of his life it looks like.
But the League is willing to pick him up and help him when he has powers. And no clothes. But then when he has clothes and no powers he's worthless.
It's kind of sad. They don't understand what's going on, his identity is exposed thanks to Lois just... blowing him out of the water there, which OUCH, and he's on his own struggling and seemingly homeless here and cast off and shunned by society... dude. Dark.
There's some good humor but this is kind of a giant ouch.
I also find it weirdly humorous Batman sees him "explode" and decides to go grab his face and then thinks they should go have dinner aka get him drunk for the first time without feeding him first -bad friends- and then leave him to suffer without any kind of kindness for a hangover cure. If I had friends like that... Who leaves their buddy in the lurch like that? How did he even get home? Terrible.
He has bad friends who ditch him when his life goes to crap, with the exception of Jimmy who tries to be part of his life it looks like.
But the League is willing to pick him up and help him when he has powers. And no clothes. But then when he has clothes and no powers he's worthless.
It's kind of sad. They don't understand what's going on, his identity is exposed thanks to Lois just... blowing him out of the water there, which OUCH, and he's on his own struggling and seemingly homeless here and cast off and shunned by society... dude. Dark.
There's some good humor but this is kind of a giant ouch.
I also find it weirdly humorous Batman sees him "explode" and decides to go grab his face and then thinks they should go have dinner aka get him drunk for the first time without feeding him first -bad friends- and then leave him to suffer without any kind of kindness for a hangover cure. If I had friends like that... Who leaves their buddy in the lurch like that? How did he even get home? Terrible.