Comics Review: Superman: Heroes and Superman: Villains

Superman: Heroes (2020-) #1 by Matt Fraction

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Superman:Heroes and Superman: Villains appear to be the end of my pre-quarantine stack. I may take a break from comics for a little bit.

The news in the DC/Bendisverse is that Superman is telling the World that he's Clark Kent. These purely ancillary bookends could actually be a lot of fun. Essentially, how the Superhero and Supervillain community handle the news.

There's a bunch of people working on this with Bendis and Fraction the writers (with Rucka on Heroes and Jody Houser on Villains) and various artists, colorists, and letterers.

I generally hate these kind of one-offs, but this could be a really, really cool book. Can you imagine?

It's quite dull though, like some of the most pedestrian comic writers hammered it out. Bendis's iconic multi-panel dialogue is here, of course, in its perhaps most uninspired usage ever.

Any memorable moments are likely from Rucka or Fraction, and there's not many of them in Superheroes and less in Villians.

I am probably charitable in reviewing these books together and rounding up to two stars. They are really quite ordinary in something that has so much potential. I don't doubt that the main titles will be at least somewhat worthwhile, but skip this.





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