Rating:  -
This is so much better than the volume 1, it's a good story and a fresh way to re-introduce an old enemy. A darker but a very good story than the ussual storys from the world of superman, yet in this story superman gives the feeling that he is a little heart less.
Rating:  -
This might sound hypocritical after reading my review for (the much more light-hearted) Showcase Presents: Superman, but I thought For Tomorrow was awesome. I liked it better than Broken City, and I loved Broken City.
Was it too cynical? I didn't think Superman was too dark and mopey. He did something that he thought would benefit people and it wound up biting him in the ass. Hasn't there always been Superman stories like that? Isn't that how (pre-crisis) Lex lost his hair for cying out loud? I thought the story did a great job of exploring his role on Earth as a savior, an alien, a man, and a husband. Sure there's some self doubt, but the story is epic enough and fascinating enough and entertaining enough that the doubt doesn't bring the story down at all.
And I definetly didn't think that Superman acted anything like some cocky jerk from 100 Bullets.
Great action, great art, cool villains, really neat idea for a story, as well as FANTASTIC dialogue. Why is it getting such bad reviews everywhere?
Rating: -
Manu of the negatie reviews I see for this series have one big complaint; they did Superman all wrong. The character and manner of Superman is definitly different, but I liked the change.
Superman has been around for nearly seventy years, and when characters have been around so long, changes have to be made to make the story fresh. In this series, Clark, or Kal-El, dose a lot os soul searching about his heritage. He thinks much about his father and Krypton, and even insists that people call him Kal-El rather than Clark. This is a darker, more conflicted Superman, who is trying to come to terms with a crisis that e inadvertantly is responsible for. The image of good old and naive farm boy from Kansas is nowhere to be seen. I liked the cahnge, though. Why can't Superman change? Is he not allowed to get depreesed or angry? All well written characters must occasionally stray from thier stereotype.
The only reason I gave it a 4 instead of a five is because the dialogue got confusing sometimes. I had to read over more than once to get the meaning, but just because it is a comic doesn't mean you don't have to think and interpret.
Bottom line: if you want to read a series, keeping an open mind, with a different take on Superman, you will most likely enjoy this. If you want the same old Superman thats been around for years, do not buy this.
Rating:  -
Azzarello does not know who sueprman is, he's not an alien, he is one of us, he may come from space but his mind is that of a human, but azzarello does not understand this.
the book has good art by lee till near the end when because of his dead lines his art clearly starts to go downhill, and it's a shame since that is when the book starts to pick up a little and get some fights, where lee could shine.
what we get is a horrible ending to a year long story, none of it makesmuch sense, the reasons behind what happen, that again shwos lack of understanding by azzarello as to who the characters really are, and his own ceated character liek the preacher turn out poorly, almost a nice set up, to be used so badly near the end.
we also see zod, this is like the 4th or 5th zod, we have seen alter worlds, fake kryptons with a zod, ghost of a zod who took over a human and plagued superman for a long time, and among all the zods..we get another one, this one looks like the silverhawk enemy mon-star with the spikes, and is a thrw away enemy, as all the zods seem to be, perhas one day we an get one who is worthy of the superman the movie 2 zod.
Rating:  -
First, I'd like to say I'm a Superman fan. This is not a Superman I recognize. The Man of Steel gets involved in a war? Huh? The only war he's ever gotten involved in was WWII and that doesn't count because it's pre-crisis. (And it was pretty much insisted upon by the War Dept.) Then it takes this bizarre turn into some kind of pocket universe and Clark Kent only wants to be known as Kal-El or Superman! I thought we decided twenty years ago that Clark Kent is who this man is and Superman is the mask he puts on so that he doesn't have to worry about his family and friends.
I was unfortunate enough to read this story month-by-month and it definitely didn't shine reading it that way. I gave this book its second star because I think reading it all at once it might be a fairly good story and might make a little sense. A lot of the new characters like Fr. Leone are interesting even if it's not clear why they are important for quite awhile in the story. The last complaint I have is it should have had an Elseworlds sticker on it because otherwise I'm not sure how this fits in with any other Superman comics I've read recently (or maybe ever).
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