tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post1430992778035922468..comments2024-03-27T19:22:03.112-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Review: Superman #13Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-74046172077664372192019-07-16T23:36:01.785-04:002019-07-16T23:36:01.785-04:00Is he really a member, or does he just know? It ma...Is he really a member, or does he just know? It makes no sense that he is a member, since he has no power like the others... Kinofreakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925596842605783593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-49096588143875330662019-07-16T17:53:46.093-04:002019-07-16T17:53:46.093-04:00Top review. The business with Jor is horribly disa...Top review. The business with Jor is horribly disappointing, this was the obvious point to undo not only Zaar being responsible for Krypton’s demise but to emphasise that whatever he’s like now due to Dr Manhattan - or whatever the story is this week - he was once a good, heroic parent. I just want this, and the rubbish surrounding Zor, undone so much. <br /><br />That Kryptonian loo made me laugh, John Byrne would never have had Kryptonians with actual bodily functions! I suppose Jor was in there so Lara wouldn’t hear his dubious doings. <br /><br />I did enjoy the early scene with the Els, and the art and colour was stupendous, especially in the floating head and Kryptonquake scenes. <br /><br />Jor’s skycycle is the best thing since the Supermobile. . <br /><br />Good to see modern Jor’s hair growing back. <br /><br />Where was the proofreader this time? ‘‘We all trust pray you are’? ‘Ingtage’?’. The excellent Rob Staeger reckons the latter is an ‘autocorrect’ thing, and it should have been ‘stage’, which makes sense. <br /><br />Have we met this Kito previously? What a bitter soul she seems, but with this version of Jor, she may have good reason to pour scorn on him. <br /><br />I wonder whether this issue was changed, that cover is very off. <br />Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-25460521193438062832019-07-16T14:58:35.333-04:002019-07-16T14:58:35.333-04:00"Maybe the Guardian wonders if all of this en..."Maybe the Guardian wonders if all of this environmental distress is because of some intentional interference."<br /><br />Could be that's what he meant. I read it that things were getting tense and threats were flying, only to be denied they were being made. At least, they claimed Jor-El made a threat. Must really have been something in his tone of voice, because I just read what he said as "Come on, guys, don't let me down, I've had your backs!" That's no threat.<br /><br />Jor-El was in no position to make threats. He's way outnumbered; unlike the others has no political power (what's he even doing in the Circle?); and his planet is inconveniently about to blow up.<br /><br />But Ali Apsa seemed to threaten him all the same. Asked why he brought up Zaar, he answered "Oh, it was just a question." Ha! Something like that out of the blue is not "just a question."<br /><br />My guess is Bendis will want to keep the relevant theme (and 80 year history) that Krypton suffered a drastic environmental collapse. Turning the cause of a planetary scale failure into an act of sabotage would not serve the theme nor the history. So I expect Rogol Zaar will have a tangential role.<br /><br />Maybe he'll simply make things worse or accelerate them? Planets suffer disasters, like the runaway hothouse on Venus, but don't usually blow up! Or at least none that I have visited.<br /><br />Earth could sustain a massive asteroid bombardment. All mammals would be wiped out, but earth would soldier onward.<br /><br />There's that mention of a cousin's Bar Mitzvah that was a bit jarring. If he wasn't just going for pure laughs from the incongruity of it, maybe Bendis is making a less-than-serious suggestion that the Diaspora spread Jews much further than anyone ever would have guessed. It also makes me think of how often the Superman story is compared to the Exodus story, where his mother sent baby Moses off in a basket to save him from certain death.<br /><br />T.N.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com