The News Team's Magmaster12 has a new review up on the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:
"Following the DC KO event, we yet again have the main Superman go missing, and now have a surge of heroes trying to take over the mantle. One of them is probably one of the craziest characters in the DC Universe. Sure, it’s no crazier than the supervillain who gets his super strength from cocaine, but it’s still pretty wild. Superboy Prime, a hero from the Prime Universe, which was basically our own universe with its own version of DC Comics, where all the adventures and events are just fictional comic books. Due to the desire to include a Superboy in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, they established that Earth Prime DID have a Superman. However, immediately after discovering he has powers, his entire universe gets destroyed by a wave of antimatter. Real shame the Prime Universe writers at DC Comics never saw this coming. Due to a bizarre reluctance to kill off Superboy, Crisis ends with Superboy joining Earth-1 Lois, Clark, and Alexander Luthor in a Pocket Dimension. In a way, keeping him alive was kind of a mistake, because two years later, they would kill off a different Superboy from another pocket universe.
For the next 20 years after the end of the Crisis, we wouldn’t hear any updates from him. Then he comes back in Infinite Crisis, but this time as a whiny comic book fanboy complaining about how dark the universe has become. Already this has aged terribly, as this was an intermediate period between the gritty 90’s and awful New 52. So already his anger and pettiness are hard to believe as a fellow comic fan. Sure, Wonder Woman killed Maxwell Lord on live TV, but shortly after the original Crisis, we also had Superman kill a pocket universe Zod."
Read the full article here.
"Editorial: Does Superboy Prime Deserve Redemption?"
"Following the DC KO event, we yet again have the main Superman go missing, and now have a surge of heroes trying to take over the mantle. One of them is probably one of the craziest characters in the DC Universe. Sure, it’s no crazier than the supervillain who gets his super strength from cocaine, but it’s still pretty wild. Superboy Prime, a hero from the Prime Universe, which was basically our own universe with its own version of DC Comics, where all the adventures and events are just fictional comic books. Due to the desire to include a Superboy in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, they established that Earth Prime DID have a Superman. However, immediately after discovering he has powers, his entire universe gets destroyed by a wave of antimatter. Real shame the Prime Universe writers at DC Comics never saw this coming. Due to a bizarre reluctance to kill off Superboy, Crisis ends with Superboy joining Earth-1 Lois, Clark, and Alexander Luthor in a Pocket Dimension. In a way, keeping him alive was kind of a mistake, because two years later, they would kill off a different Superboy from another pocket universe.
For the next 20 years after the end of the Crisis, we wouldn’t hear any updates from him. Then he comes back in Infinite Crisis, but this time as a whiny comic book fanboy complaining about how dark the universe has become. Already this has aged terribly, as this was an intermediate period between the gritty 90’s and awful New 52. So already his anger and pettiness are hard to believe as a fellow comic fan. Sure, Wonder Woman killed Maxwell Lord on live TV, but shortly after the original Crisis, we also had Superman kill a pocket universe Zod."
Read the full article here.
