Books : Superman: Exile

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- Superman Exile : When I stopped reading
I had always been a Superman fan as long back as I can remember. However, when "Superman" took the lives of three Zone criminals, I knew I was looking at an imposter. The Superman I grew up with would have never done such a deed. He would have returned them to the Zone and just dealt with it if they escaped again. Also if the real Superman had been forced to do likewise, in breaking his code, he would have exposed himself to Gold Kryptonite erasing his powers and ending his career.

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- Satisfying Journey!
Exile is great - any Superman fan should try it out - I thoroughly enjoyed it! Superman takes a self-imposed journey into space, leaving Earth for awhile. He deals with an inner conflict (what if Superman kills his enemies?) and has several other adventures along the way involving aliens, early Kryptonian history and the Eradicator device, and Warworld. What I really liked about the story was the variety and also the satisfying conclusion.

Of course the artwork is not the rich computer-colored style that we see nowdays. This is more of the late 80's look. But Superman is strong, heroic, deals with an inner conflict for a short time, and just in a word, is CLASSIC. Loved it! It goes up there among my favorites, definitely to be re-read again and again.

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- Exile - Answers
If you missed out on some of the DC universe changes, this is a must read.
It is very entertaining and gets you on the way to the current DC status.

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- Great Superman tale
Superman can be so much more than the boy scout as this story demonstrates.

The book is really 3-4 stories in one; it is back from a time when a comic took more than 5 minutes to read. It will take you sometime to get through this, and in this case that's a good thing.

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- Superman in Despair
I don't typically like Superman stories, try as I might. But this one isn't hard to enjoy.

It's not often you get to see Superman hitting bottom, and the creators really pulled it off nicely. The first half of this book details his slide into despair and self-destruction, and really says a great deal about loss. We can't always live up to the unrealistically high ideals we tend to promote.

This story proves that Superman has a great deal of humanity, more than most other superheroes out there. It's always a good thing to see heroes fail, because it's their reaction that defines who they really are.

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