Superman Year One

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I’ve had an artist call me and say, “I don’t know how to tell a story without a script.” It was a couple of years ago, and I said, “No, you can. You’ve done it before.”“No, I’ve only worked from a script.”“Wow, and you get paid for this, huh?” I honestly think everybody should be able to do it this way, but not everybody can. Year Zero features Joker using an evil mystical amulet to possess and hurt members of the Justice Society. Superman is possessed, but frees himself after Batman gets through to him. The Joker takes this as a challenge to corrupt Superman, leading to the events of Lois' death. The biggest divergent mark in his version is Superman in the military. Forget the Atlantis stuff happening around it, the expanded relationship with the mermaid Lori Lemaris. The very thought of Superman in the military, in the modern age, is an outrage. That’s Vietnam for you. You can have Captain America, the Justice Society of America, fighting in WWII, both because that’s literally what made them relevant in the first place and what still makes sense in their stories, but Superman??? Of course not!!! Right? I’ve said this a million times. My father told me, “Get used to the fact that there’s somebody better than you anywhere in the world. You’re not going to be the best artist in the world, so just accept it and then do the best you can.” I’m too busy trying to keep it on schedule, get it done on time, make sense of it, and not look stupid. “Don’t F this up.” Was the famous words of an astronaut. “Oh, lord, don’t let me F this up.” That’s the feeling I had when I was starting.

So Frank Miller, hubris laden, bored silly and seeking to put a few more dollars into his accounts has decided to write a Year One story for Superman. The funny thing is that it starts out well enough. No really. I actually liked the story for the first part- from the destruction of Krypton to the Clark Kent in High School...I was fine with it and thought it an interesting take on the Superman origin story. The bad guys he battles are absurdly one-dimensional. High school bullies that supposedly hold Smallville in thrall and attempt to rape Lana Lang, Navy grunts in a bar who attempt to rape female customers, and a version of Poseidon that’s out to rape his own daughter: this is just laughably childish characterisation and lazy writing.

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Now, let me start by saying I thought the art was really good, some of Romita's best. The story was..harder to rate. John Romita Jr., (Daredevil: Man without Fear, Eternals: Το Ξύπνημα των Θεών, Wolverine: Δημόσιος Κίνδυνος) χωρίς να εντάσσεται στις κορυφαίες στιγμές της καριέρας του, παραμένει εντυπωσιακό στα μεγάλα καρέ και αξιοπρόσεκτο ακόμα και στα πιο τυπικά σημεία της αφήγησης. Ο έμπειρος σχεδιαστής ακολουθεί τη ροή της αφήγησης του Miller και προσαρμόζει αξιόλογα το σχέδιό του στις αλλαγές αυτού. Το πιο ενδιαφέρον σημείο της δουλειάς του είναι η σχεδιαστική αποτύπωση της ωρίμανσης του Clark, η εξέλιξη της μορφής του από τον έφηβο μαθητή του Smallville στον θρυλικό υπερήρωα. I liked that Clark kept his humility and scout outlook even when everyone was always either criticising him or questioning him. The comic does a good job at illustrating how much he has to restrain himself to avoid not only hurting others, but also becoming self-absorbed.

Another comic book series, titled Injustice: Ground Zero, followed the Injustice comic prequels. This series was a retelling of the game's events from Harley Quinn's perspective. [9] [10] Rogues— Ten years into retirement The Rogues reunite for One Last Job that takes them to Gorilla City. Written by Joshua Williamson and drawn by Leomacs. The final chapter is where it completely derailed in my books as the story lost its focus and expanded its cast to include other heroes and villains that shouldn’t have been in this story in the first place—amongst them all, he unsurprisingly decided to ruin the Dark Knight with some of the worse dialogues of all time. This whole chapter almost felt like it that was designed to prove the people at Warner Bros and DC Comics that he had a “better” idea—the premise of it could’ve been good but the execution here was horrible—than director Zach Snyder as to what Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) should’ve been. Wordy and boring with pompous captions all over the place, out of character, way too long for what it’s worth (nowt). I can’t believe the guy who was my absolute reference in the 80’s could fall down so hard. Miller has lost his mojo; for good it seems. We played with everything a human goes through in adolescence all the way up to adulthood. All the little things you go through, bullies, dealing with school, football, sports, dealing with women (or dealing with men). Everything that a normal human goes through is applied to Superman as a super being.The final essay omitted these lines and, as a whole, was more from Cap’s perspective, and considerably more generic and uplifting. Waid later told Newsarama that “the abridged version that’s being circulated by news outlets severely mischaracterizes what was actually written.” The part that takes place in Atlantis was also really nice. I specially love it builds up its glorious reveal slowly with Clark swimming deeper and deeper to the bottom of the sea. As long as you keep the editorial base, the need for the editors to get the character right, especially with a character like Superman, which… I don’t have the history with the character. But as long as I get those things correct, then we’re good to go in any direction. But I started off that way, and I got used to it.

I was already hating this book but determined to finish it when something really strange started happening about 2/3 of the way through. Text started being repeated at a crazy clip. It just kept coming, and eventually every time there was another instance, I just wanted to fling this book into the garbage can. The next 2 photos are collages of these double texts. Each panel is a separate occurrence. What the hell? Who signed off on this crap?! origin ιστορίας του Superman γίνεται πολλές φορές με τρόπο ασταθή και βιαστικό. Στιγμές όπως η «υιοθεσία» του Clark απ’ τους Kent ή ο σχηματισμός της Trinity εκτυλίσσονται μέσα σε ελάχιστα καρέ, ακολουθώντας έναν γρήγορο ρυθμό που αφήνει πολλά κενά, μοιάζοντας να έχει μπει η αφήγηση σε fast forward. Ίσως αυτή είναι και μία συνέπεια του reboot μίας ιστορίας από αυτές που γνωρίζουν πλέον οι πάντες. The story is split into the six years preceding the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game. While Year Zero takes place before Year One and tells the story of how and where The Joker got the idea to drive Superman to madness, Year One to Year Four sees Superman's totalitarian regime fighting against one enemy after another. "Year Five" brings the narrative to that of the game, setting up the events that take place.Phillips, Brandy (January 15, 2013). " 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' Battle Edition and Release Date Revealed; Digital Comic Based on Game Available Today". DC Comics. Imagine if someone wrote the Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman in the absolute worst possible ways. Superman as an arrogant ultra-strong, amazing alien to be looked up to who is motivated almost entirely by a sense of morality that isn't explained even partially, and who is a ladies' man almost to a fault. Batman as an illogical, arrogant vigilante who exists almost exclusively to be a foil for Superman. Wonder Woman as a five-second character who lusts after Superman with the fire of a thousand suns. Literally, that's her whole thing. It's so weird and offended me partly because it was such a long read to be this bad. I gotta say, Wonder Woman giving him that weepy-eyed look as he flies out the window made me throw up in my mouth a little. Miller στα δύο πρώτα τεύχη δεν είναι τόσο οι επιλογές του για τον Clark (αν και χωράει αρκετή συζήτηση ο ουδέτερος τρόπος αντιμετώπισης του αμερικάνικου στρατού), όσο το γεγονός ότι αποτελούν ως επί το πλείστον τυπικές ιστορίες, που ακολουθούν τα κλασσικά μοτίβα του είδους τους, στα οποία η παρουσία του Clark μοιάζει σε στιγμές σχεδόν διακοσμητική. Ειδικά το πρώτο τεύχος είναι μία τυπική teen αφήγηση, που διαδραματίζεται σε ένα σχολείο της αμερικάνικης επαρχίας. Οι έρωτες, οι φιλίες, οι αντιζηλίες, το bullying και το αμερικάνικο ποδόσφαιρο είναι κάποια απ’ τα βασικά συστατικά του τεύχους. Ο Clark γίνεται φίλος των πιο ντροπαλών παιδιών, εκείνων που συχνά περνούν απαρατήρητα απ’ τους σχολικούς διαδρόμους και που μετατρέπονται στους κύριους στόχους του bullying απ’ τις βίαιες παρέες των σχολείων. Έτσι ο Clark, χωρίς να θέλει να αποκαλύψει τις υπερφυσικές ικανότητές του, γίνεται υπερασπιστής των φίλων του και εχθρός των τραμπούκων.