Name: Superman
ISBN: 9781401240288

Keith Giffen

Dan Jurgens

Helspont, a descendant of the ancient alien race of Daemonites, has enlisted an army of robots to obtain all there is to know about the Kryptonian menace standing between him and dominion over the people of Earth.

Secrets and Lies

Superman

Dimitris Papastergiou

If you could read shit, this is what it would be like to read shit. Yeap.

There is an alien named Helstop? Helstomp? No idea because he's so forgettable. Simply because it's a stupid character with nothing to offer.

Well, anyway, that evil character is talking to himself to give us info about his whole background and why he's on earth and why he wants Superman and why why why a million other things. HE. IS. TALKING. TO. HIMSELF. Cheapest fucking way in comics to vomit all the shit you want the reader to know since the Golden Age.

The fact that Supes is talking to himself when something happens ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME. is just annoying as fuck. It's like I'm back in the 40's. 

The artwork is meh. Nothing exceptional. It's just there. To be honest I DID like some panels. Even though the villains suck. They suck so much, they forgot they got teeth.

No story. Nothing. Just Superman going against some dumb alien who thinks is superior. They fight it out. Supes wins. Yay. The end. 
Oh oh, we also get some boring as fuck material with Lois and her sister or something. I completely forgot and I JUST read the thing.

I am NOT reading the next volume because I want to have fun when reading comics, so I'm gonna let it go and read it in the future. Also I read some reviews of my friends' here about Vol.3 He'l on Earth that you have to read a bunch of other series too to understand what's happening in this whole clusterfuck.. so no thanks.

Do NOT read this if you want to read a good Superman story.

Eleanor Luhar

Another great comic, featuring some of our favourite people - including Clark Kent, Superman (no, they're not the same person), Lois, Jon and even Superwoman.

Carrying on from the previous volume, we're waiting to discover who this new Superman is after the original Superman's death, not to mention the mysterious Clark Kent who's turned up too. And tying into Superwoman, Lana is still mourning the death of her friend when the replacement Lois turns up.

I've found this plot really intriguing - what happened to Superman and Lois Lane? Where have all these "replacements" come from?

The first issue(s) in this volume touch(es) on Lex becoming the new Superman, featuring several other famous heroes. Again, this ties in to Superwoman.

I love Jon, and it's nice to see Lois and Clark/Superman making themselves a little life together. And I like how the different Clarks and Lois' have their little differences as characters, despite technically being the same people. And Jon is trying to cope with the change in lifestyle, with this whole new world.

I think this is a really interesting story currently. It's a good comic in general, and I plan to keep up with it. 4 stars.

Sans

Of all the graphic novels I own, I started with this one. Not sure why, but I had to start somewhere, right? 

There were some amusing lines that did little to improve a pretty mediocre collection of stories. Superman is a hit or miss character with more misses than hits (for me at least). This is just the latest miss.

Superman Secrets and Lies