The Man of Steel

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In a major coup to Marvel, DC recently signed an exclusive deal with Brian M Bendis (the mastermind behind years' worth of Marvel events and big name comics like Ultimate Spider Man and New Avengers). As part of his new deal Bendis is taking over the Superman and Action Comics titles as the two creative teams that have been writing those books wind down. The Man of Steel is a mini series that basically acts as the prequel to the new run on those two books. Bendis is changing up a few elements of Superman's history and status quo: first, he is introducing a fun new villain Rogor Zaal (who claims to be the culprit behind the destruction of Krypton) and second, he is at least temporarily separating the Superman family. Zaal is the better of the two elements so far; he is a Doomsday level villain with a huge presence and a ton of power but he is also hyper intelligent and a master tactician. His hatred of Krypton and its inhabitants comes from a misplaced sense of protecting the universe from them and when he learns he didn't wipe out of the entire race he heads to Earth to finish the job. Zaal is going to be a major foe for Superman going forward and they have some fun back and forth scenes here aside from just a Doomsday-like thrown down. The Superman family drama isn't as solid so far, however, and has caused a bit of controversy around the new run. Lois and Jon both seem to be missing and Clark seems in mourning throughout the book, until it turns out that Jon has gone on a tour of space with his re-stabilizing grandfather Jor-El (revealed to be Mr. Oz in a recent mini event) and Lois goes with him. Bendis has sworn in statements online that he has no plans of breaking up the Kent family, but either he's going to put fans through their pacing for the sake of cheap drama or there's something else up his sleeves. All in all a great Superman comic with an engaging new villain, but it does lose some points for the needless sidelining of Jon and Lois (especially after Peter Tomasi's recent run has shown that being a father figure was the exact course correction Superman needed).

So let me start off by saying that I’m a comic book lover and have been my entire life. Superman is that one character who I'll always keep coming back to and will always be #1 on my list for favorite character ever, I love everything about what he stands for and have more Superman comics and graphic novels/trades than for any other character. This book was hyped up with it being Bendis’s debut at DC. Honestly like most people I think he’s rather overrated but I’d take him over Morrison any day. This book contains the mini series that leads in to the start of his run on the actual Superman title so while the plot does come to a conclusion it doesent really close the story and carries over into the ongoing Superman title. The story was ok and there are elements such as Jon and Lois that I’m not really thrilled with what Bendis does with them, but it’s still a Superman story and honestly I’ll read them all. I get a lot of the dislike for Bendis’s writing on the characters and definently not having an understanding of them and making them do things totally out of character. But that said I think you can look past a lot of that if you love Superman like I do. I will say the actual ongoing series of Superman which you can read the first half of the arc in the unity saga hardcover is amazing, there are still issues with the way certain characters are handled but the story is amazing and I’m absolutely loving it.

The New York Times had an article entitled ‘Can this man save Superman?”. This man being Brian Michael Bendis. The problem was that Peter J. Tomasi and Dan Jurgens were creating some of the best Superman stories since I started collecting in the 1970’s. I went decades without seriously collecting Superman comics because I found the stories so uninteresting but since Rebirth I was eagerly anticipating each Deluxe Edition of Superman and Action Comics and now DC was pulling the plug because of how highly regarded Bendis was in the industry. Bendis didn’t just take over one Superman comic. He’s writing Superman AND Action Comics so if you’re a Superman fan but not a Bendis fan you’re basically out of luck.The impression I get is that Bendis’ is trying to get back to Superman’s roots as a being of pure goodness. This seems to be quite popular with writers these days. The problem is that as someone who has read Superman stories going back to the 1930’s I can tell you that this Superman has never existed before. Not in the Golden Age, not in the Silver Age and not in the Bronze Age. This is a very recent Modern Age invention and the pure Superman is a very boring Superman. It reminds me of J. Michael Straczynski’s “Grounded” storyline where Superman walks across the United States to reconnect with everyday people. Interesting idea, boring as hell.I usually like when writers go bold and make characters their own but I really don’t like that Bendis removed Lois Lane and Jon from the comics. This seems like a terrible decision since a lot of readers were really enjoying the Superman family. Bendis is also cleary trying to turn Rogol Zaar into a top tier villain but he comes off as a forgettable throw away character. Zaar isn’t just a villain for the Man of Steel mini-series. Bendis is continuing to use him in the regular series. Zaar is just obsessed with killing all Kryptonians but the explanation for why is pretty weak. Besides Zaar, the other issue Superman is dealing with is an arsonist which is as dull as it sounds and doesn’t get resolved in this series. I can see that Bendis is a superior writer but some of the dialogue is just weird. At one point Superman says, ‘as my ma always said, “fire is fire.” Is that seriously something ma Kent always said? An empty tautological statement?I don’t hate what Bendis is doing and I’ve certainly seen worse Superman stories but DC must consider this a disappointment. Before Bendis, Superman and Action Comics were selling around 40 thousand issues which really isn’t great. When Grant Morrison took over Action Comics in 2011 it sold over 180k. With Bendis at the reigns of Superman and Action they’ve been selling more in the 60 to 70k range. Morrison’s issues dipped rapidly in sales but stayed well above what Bendis is doing. With the acclaim Bendis received I’m sure DC was hoping for far better but I’m assuming readers saw what Bendis did with The Man of Steel and didn’t have much interest in continuing. Even The Man of Steel sales were mediocre so I guess people just didn’t have tremendous interest in seeing Bendis write Superman.I wish Bendis success and for whatever reason I’ve continued collecting Superman and Action despite not really enjoying them and I buy very few other comics. Undoubtedly, a great story can be written with an introspective Superman but I just don’t see that happening here and I think the sales numbers reflect it. Besides writing all the Superman comics, Bendis is also writing a handful of other titles so I have to wonder if the workload is causing all his projects to suffer. DC seemed to be drawing some kind of parallel between the arrival of Bendis and the arrival of Jack Kirby in the 1970’s when Kirby took on a massive workload but times have changed and I don’t think the experiment is working very well thus far. I’m going to stick with it a little longer but my patience is wearing thin and I may give up on Superman comics for the time being,

All I've read was just gloom and doom about Bendis taking over the Superman books, so glad I decided to buy this book and find out for myself. I absolutely loved it! Couldn't put it down! Just ordered Vol. 1 of Both Action Comics & Superman can't wait to see what happens next!

I just finished reading every superman title from new 52 to all of rebirth action and superman titles and bendis is up there with Tomasi! I loved how well he knows Clark. It's a shame we lost lois and jon but let's see what he has in store!

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John Byrne, Mark Waid & Geoff Johns escribieron en su momento el nuevo origen del hombre de acero... Man of Steel, Birthright & Secret Origin... Bendis nos vende humo con el título, si bien no cuenta "el nuevo origen" de Superman, agrega un elemento que supone una variante a la destrucción de Krypton y a raíz de aquí surge la historia, Rogol Zaar el villano en turno que no sólo quiere terminar con Superman sino con toda la raza Kryptoniana, Bendis juega con carta blanca y esta miniserie es el preámbulo a una historia más grande en los títulos de Superman y Action comics y es donde falla este tomo pero en la parte gráfica es donde mejor luce el tomó, simplemente brutal la pléyade de artistas que pasan a plasmar una parte de la vida de Superman, Garcia-López, Hughes, Maguire, Reis, Jim Lee, Sook entre muchos más junto a una edición hardcover sublime.

Excelente!Llegó antes de tiempo y a un precio muy bueno.Brian Bendis sabe sacarle el jugo a la mitología del kriptoniano.Nada en la vida de Superman será lo mismo despues de BMB.

Bendis ignora 80 anos de história e escreve qualquer coisa, resumindo é isso.Só coloquei 2 estrelinhas porque apesar de um texto horroroso os desenhos são ótimos.