I’ll be straight with you. In my head, anyone who isn’t Steve Gerber writing Howard The Duck is tantamount to comics blasphemy to me…
On the one hand, I’m all for a revival of DC’s ancient SF anthology; on the other hand, this is Vertigo, and I often get exasperated with them. Unfortunately the balance comes down on that side, for me.
Recently nominated for an Eisner award for Best New Series, Superboy is one of the best superhero books DC is publishing. If you haven’t tried it, give it a go.
It’s not quite up there with Giant-Sized Man-Thing, but Giant Size Atom’s a pleasing oxymoron. If only the contents were as diverting.
I thought that with this new site starting, when I visited the comic shop this week I’d buy something kind of at random, and the first issue of Superboy by creators new to me seemed a suitable choice.
