YMMV / Superman: Earth One

• Awesome Art: The first two volumes were drawn by Shane Davis, and they look beautiful. Ardian Syaf also proved himself a worthy replacement for volume 3.
• Base-Breaking Character
  • Clark Kent. Fans are conflicted over how "human" Superman should be, how sincere the Clark Kent identity is, his place as The Ace, and of course, that he has to be dragged into saving the day instead of just being The Cape. A number were mollified by Clark's steady Character Development.
  • Jimmy Olsen. While he has a lot of fans (see Ensemble Dark Horse below), there are some (mostly Lois Lane fans) who think he's a Spot Light Stealing Squad and a Creator's Pet.
• Broken Base:
  • Several issues that are particularly contentious in the fanbase are: the change in the cause for Krypton's destruction (some hate the idea of it having an intergalactic conspiracy behind it as a Myth Arc), the occasional speechifying by characters, and from the fact that JMS is seen as a Scrappy creator by several superfans (being the contested-author of Spider-Man's One More Day, and his abandoned runs on Superman with the Grounded story-arc and on Wonder Woman with the Odyssey story-arc.)
  • For fun, go to an online forum and argue about this comic being better or worse than Man of Steel or The New 52 Superman.
• Complete Monster: General Zod-El, from Volume Three, was once Krypton's greatest soldier. After a conflict with his brother Jor-El, Zod started a bloody Civil War that killed many of his own people. Upon his loss, Zod helped Krypton's enemies destroy the world, watching billions die with the sole condition that he be the one and only survivor, even if it meant Earth being destroyed in the process. Zod later arrives to torture and murder Clark, his own nephew, threatening to murder Clark's mother for spite and being willing to kill as many humans as it takes to hurt him more.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: If the reviews are anything to go by, it's Jim Olsen.
• Iron Woobie: Superman himself, considering the amount of things he has to endure in order to save the world.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Jim being willing to die for to get photos is meant shown him being brave and noble but instead it makes him look like a reckless idiot.
• Wangst: Clark in first volume is often accused of this, especially after Tyrell's invasion starts.

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