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A review by captwinghead
Superwoman, Volume 1: Who Killed Superwoman? by Jeromy Cox, Matt Santorelli, Steve Downer, Phil Jimenez, Joe Prado, Emanuela Lupacchino, Ray McCarthy
3.0
This has a lot of promising elements in it. 1) 2 female leads 2) Fantastic writer 3) diverse cast 4) 2 lesbian characters and 5) pretty good artwork. Unfortunately, something about the plot didn't quite work for me.
It starts out with Lois and Lana working together. Already, this is a welcome change from some Superman works where they just exist to fight each other over Clark. I have read summaries about what happened to New 52 Superman and I still can't tell you what happened. All I know is that this begins with Lois coming to Lana for help with her new abilities. Clark has been gone for a while and they're helping each other through it. I shipped it, not gonna lie. I loved seeing them together and the banter was wonderful. I would have gladly read a book about them working together to save the world.
Lana's abilities remind me of Carol Danvers' and I'm not sure how I feel about that. It's the typical Fantastic Four question for me: why would an explosion affect 2 people differently? It's the same explosion and the same elements. I don't understand why they'd have different abilities.
The big bad in this book is Lena Luthor. I quit Supergirl after season 2's premiere but I understand she's a popular character. It seems to me that either Rebirth went a completely different way or the CW changed her character significantly. Considering what they did to Archie, I'm betting it's the latter. Here, she's kind of an interesting foe. She has a reasonable cause for going evil and I appreciate that she's a brilliant scientist.
One note: I think the female characters in this book are fantastic! They all have purposes and lives outside of supporting male characters. Lana is a brilliant. Lois is funny and brave. Traci 13 wants to protect Metropolis and her girlfriend Natasha. Natasha is a genius engineer and creates multiple suits of armor to protect her family. I couldn't ask for better representation in this book.
The Lana/John relationship bored me, not gonna lie. Although it is refreshing to see the male character begging the female hero not to risk their lives for once.
Ultimately, this book failed for me when it tried to reveal Lena's evil plot. It actually kind of overexplained and that made for boring reading. There were way too many speech bubbles of Lana trying to berate Lex for his evil acts and I understood what happened pretty much from the first few panels. It wasted time in which we could have had kickass fighting sequences and instead we were given more of Lex in prison trying to make excuses for himself. Also, Ultrawoman's suit looked hilariously stupid.
So, with less needless explanation, this could have been an even better book. That being said, I enjoyed the cast quite a bit. I like what Phil Jimenez did here and I'm interested in reading more of his work.
It starts out with Lois and Lana working together. Already, this is a welcome change from some Superman works where they just exist to fight each other over Clark. I have read summaries about what happened to New 52 Superman and I still can't tell you what happened. All I know is that this begins with Lois coming to Lana for help with her new abilities. Clark has been gone for a while and they're helping each other through it. I shipped it, not gonna lie. I loved seeing them together and the banter was wonderful. I would have gladly read a book about them working together to save the world.
Lana's abilities remind me of Carol Danvers' and I'm not sure how I feel about that. It's the typical Fantastic Four question for me: why would an explosion affect 2 people differently? It's the same explosion and the same elements. I don't understand why they'd have different abilities.
The big bad in this book is Lena Luthor. I quit Supergirl after season 2's premiere but I understand she's a popular character. It seems to me that either Rebirth went a completely different way or the CW changed her character significantly. Considering what they did to Archie, I'm betting it's the latter. Here, she's kind of an interesting foe. She has a reasonable cause for going evil and I appreciate that she's a brilliant scientist.
One note: I think the female characters in this book are fantastic! They all have purposes and lives outside of supporting male characters. Lana is a brilliant. Lois is funny and brave. Traci 13 wants to protect Metropolis and her girlfriend Natasha. Natasha is a genius engineer and creates multiple suits of armor to protect her family. I couldn't ask for better representation in this book.
The Lana/John relationship bored me, not gonna lie. Although it is refreshing to see the male character begging the female hero not to risk their lives for once.
Ultimately, this book failed for me when it tried to reveal Lena's evil plot. It actually kind of overexplained and that made for boring reading. There were way too many speech bubbles of Lana trying to berate Lex for his evil acts and I understood what happened pretty much from the first few panels. It wasted time in which we could have had kickass fighting sequences and instead we were given more of Lex in prison trying to make excuses for himself. Also, Ultrawoman's suit looked hilariously stupid.
So, with less needless explanation, this could have been an even better book. That being said, I enjoyed the cast quite a bit. I like what Phil Jimenez did here and I'm interested in reading more of his work.