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Superman: Lois and Clark by Dan Jurgens

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is a book that's really about the characters. Lois, Clark, and Little Jonathan are the last survivors of their universe after the events of Convergence. Now, they are the New 52 Earth where there's another Superman and another Lois Lane, both younger than them. What do they do?
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They move on and find a way to help on their New Earth. Clark still saves people, though anonymously and in a special black costume while Lois adopts the name of Author X and sets out to right wrongs and expose evil as a true crime writer. The idea of Superman misplaced into a difficult circumstance has been done in comics, and several written of an eternally mopey or petty Man of Steel, yet I think Jurgens really captures both Lois and Clark as people who have gifts to help people and they will find a way to do that, sooner or later, no matter what circumstance their put into. They move on, and get back up. Clark doesn't try to get in the other Superman's way or even make himself known. He doesn't want to interfere with how that Superman acts and develops. It's a picture of simple grace and humility that's just so appealing.

Beyond this simple virtue, Lois, Clark, and Jonathan make this wonderfully cute family. There's a lot of love and care in the family and it just radiates off the page.

There's not much use writing about the plots. Lois gets into danger with Intergang and Clark faces some epic villains. Neither issue comes to a major final resolution. In fact, the book leaves things open for further expansion. That's fine because this is really a character based book and I really loved these three characters and how Jurgens writes them. I got into the book hungry for more of them, and the stories only served to whet my appetite in that regards. This is one of my absolute favorite books made in 2016.



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