I'm a huge fan of Superman, in my top 3 alongside Nightwing and Spider-Man.
So I was definitely curious when I learned of this story. The basic premise is amusing, a Kansas boy named Clark Kent in a world where superheroes are fictional who gains Superman's powers as a teenager. The concept alone sounds like a really lazy parody, but the creative team do an amazing job with it.
Throughout the miniseries, we get to see Clark in different periods of his life and the consequences of the name his parents gave him, being teased by his family for it and mocked relentlessly by people in high school and at his job. Clark becomes a journalist for the New Yorker as well as a popular novelist. He meets a woman named Lois who hates the trend of people trying to hook her up with guys named Clark, and they end up one of the happiest and heartwarming comic book couples I've ever read. (Plus because it's a miniseries, editors who are bitter over their divorce can't break them up through lazy retcons and make BS excuses to prevent them getting back together.)
We also get to see Clark struggle with keeping his powers secret while using them for good (also the fact that he wears a Superman costume to do so is hilarious), as well as the American government trying to capture and vivisect him because they fear the threat he could become. I'm glad they never really bothered explaining what caused Clark as well as many other people to develop powers, there's hints of what it could be but I'm glad they didn't spell it out. Much more fun that way.
We get to see Clark get older, have a happy and stable marriage with Lois (Who is an interior designer and supposedly a pretty good one) and also become a father and the fears that he has. My only lament is that it ended, but that's how I know it was a great story.
ComicBook A Great Story
I'm a huge fan of Superman, in my top 3 alongside Nightwing and Spider-Man.
So I was definitely curious when I learned of this story. The basic premise is amusing, a Kansas boy named Clark Kent in a world where superheroes are fictional who gains Superman's powers as a teenager. The concept alone sounds like a really lazy parody, but the creative team do an amazing job with it.
Throughout the miniseries, we get to see Clark in different periods of his life and the consequences of the name his parents gave him, being teased by his family for it and mocked relentlessly by people in high school and at his job. Clark becomes a journalist for the New Yorker as well as a popular novelist. He meets a woman named Lois who hates the trend of people trying to hook her up with guys named Clark, and they end up one of the happiest and heartwarming comic book couples I've ever read. (Plus because it's a miniseries, editors who are bitter over their divorce can't break them up through lazy retcons and make BS excuses to prevent them getting back together.)
We also get to see Clark struggle with keeping his powers secret while using them for good (also the fact that he wears a Superman costume to do so is hilarious), as well as the American government trying to capture and vivisect him because they fear the threat he could become. I'm glad they never really bothered explaining what caused Clark as well as many other people to develop powers, there's hints of what it could be but I'm glad they didn't spell it out. Much more fun that way.
We get to see Clark get older, have a happy and stable marriage with Lois (Who is an interior designer and supposedly a pretty good one) and also become a father and the fears that he has. My only lament is that it ended, but that's how I know it was a great story.
Highly recommend giving it a read.