PUBLIC MARKS with tags superman & dc

Ah, “Last Son”. The much-ballyhooed, much-criticized, much-excoriated story arc that was to be one of DC’s big draws for 2007, only to get shot in the foot pretty much the second it got out of the gate.

Sometimes in the comic books world, a major story that embodies the word ‘epic’ – in all the best senses of the word – comes along and flies under the radar of much of the comic-reading public, simply because it wasn’t accompanied by the requisite hype blitz.

Superman Earth One has polarized fans of the Man of Steel, with some finding it a worthy “rebooting” of the venerable character, and others believing it is little more than pandering to today’s Twilight-obsessed tweens and teens.

Superman: War of the Supermen collects Superman: War of the Supermen #0-4 and Superman #700, all originally published in 2010. Despite the lack of a volume number, this completes the seven-volume series of graphic novels that began with Superman: New Krypton, Vol. 1 and extended through Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton Vol. 1 and Superman: The Last Stand of New Krypton Vol. 2.

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