4.5 starsThought Kenan was an asshole at first. Hopefully he will become nicer. Seemed like he was starting to be. RIP Kenan's father. Is Dr. Omen Kenan's mom?Can't wait to read All New Superman volume 2!!!!

Kong Kenan lives in Shanghai with his auto mechanic father. He’s hardly hero material, something of a bully even. But, in a chance encounter in which he stands up to a super-villain brings him to the attention of Dr. Omen, a woman bent on creating her own team of heroes. She puts him through a procedure to give him powers, and the New Super-Man is born. But figuring out who the real heroes and villains are isn't easy ...This was a fun debut. If nothing else, it's nice to read a volume 1 that act...

This was better towards the end RTC

I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review. Very corny, and I'm not sure of the "why" of the plot. Just weird, overall, and not in a good way.

A cute book - more like Superboy than Superman. It was nice to see non-American characters but the story is fairly conventional. Powers are granted to kids who are not ready for it but over the story overcome their basic selfishness to save the day. The real charm of this book is the interaction between the New Justice League of China. The three kids are very cute together. Not necessarily funny as the humour didn’t land for me all the time but I was smiling.I liked the art mostly but not sure t...

What if Superman's origin was that he was a real jerk? That's the case with new Super-man. He is in the process of bullying one of his classmates when he accidentally becomes a hero by saving that same student from a super villain. I really like that the relationships of Super-man get more complex as the story develops, and he has to ask himself who the heroes really are. Where the story falls down is when a group of freedom fighters who want to bring democracy to China betray their ideals to fi...

Kong Kenan is picking on a schoolmate when a supervillain shows up. For whatever reason Kong throws a can of soda at him, knocking the villain senseless. The event is caught on video and he becomes an overnight sensation. This puts him in the sight of Dr. Omen who decides to make him the New Super-Man. So then Kong teams up with the Chinese version of Bat-Man and Wonder Woman to form the Justice League of China. They fight the Freedom Fighters of China repeatedly throughout the first arc. Who re...

I actually like this better than most Superman comics I've read! TRUE STORY !I'm not the hugest fan of Superman comics. I like the movies, I've like some of the TV shows, I've liked some of the adjacent novels, like Gwenda Bond's Lois Lane series. But I like Gene's writing, and I just read Dragon Hoops, where he talks about getting this gig, so I wanted to try it. I was very pleasantly surprised. Honestly? Kong Kenan being a bully and a brat works for me. He stands up to a bad guy, sort of as a

This is def one of my fave DC Rebirth titles. Okay so what did I like about it? Let's hit the positives. The main character is great. He's funny, charming, good (somewhat) and a nice contrast between this Super-man and our Superman. The chemistry between the main trio (the justice league of china, it's amazing, go with it) is near perfect. Especially by the end you feel these guys are friends, and it's a nice way of building through issue 1-6. The twist at the end is actually something that caug...

** received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review **4.5 starsI really enjoyed this!This is such an interesting take on Superman!Kong Kenan is not your typical Clark Kent type because he’s kind of an ass. He starts this book bullying one of his classmates. Of course, we find out later that there’s a little more to why he singled out that classmate in particular but he’s not a nice guy. He’s arrogant, he doesn’t seem to listen to anyone and he’s rude. Yet, when Lixin, the kid he’s bullyi...

Part of the DC Rebirth series, featuring a Chinese super-hero and written by Gene Luen Yang!Tbh, I wasn't super impressed with this, mostly because I didn't like Kenan at all. He was an immature bully and only kinda changed for the better, but not really. I didn't really understand why he was chosen to be the new Superman—particularly if anyone had a single conversation with him—although teasers at the end hint to why he would have been selected. I also wanted more character development with Bat...

The worst Rebirth comic that I've read so far. Which is a damn shame, because the premise intrigued me. Superman as a character is very much a product of where and when he landed, and I love the idea of exploring what he would be like if he'd grown up somewhere else. See Superman: Red Son for an excellent take on that very concept. So I was really into the idea of a modern Chinese version of Superman, who couldn't help but be different from middle American Superman. Instead, I get a blandly unli...

This Chinese Superman book was one of the few Rebirth titles that genuinely intrigued me, not least because it featured the only original new character in the entire line - I know that’s deliberate though, that Rebirth is about bringing back classic characters/timelines, etc. So it’s disappointing that New Super-Man follows the Rebirth trend of being unreadable drek. Kong Kenan is a bully who throws a drinks can at the first of many shitty Chinese villains he happens across. This one incident s...

Totally awesome! A whole new super-character with a whole new origin story. Gene Luen Yang is one of my favourite graphic novelists and though his run on the original Superman disappointed me, this new Super-Man of China totally rocks. A fantastic backstory with government and dissident organizations working behind the scenes and members of three new teams whose classification as superheroes or villains is blurry until the end. A spectacular job of introducing an army of new characters but espec...

Many of my GR buddies hated this book, but I actually thought it was alright. Yes, the concept is derivative, but that is the entire point, and I thought that Gene Yang managed to add enough of a twist to make it feel like an original enough creation. Also, like many others I was bothered by the fact that this Chinese Superman is a kid who's a bully and a dumbass, but by the end of this volume he starts to change, and I think there is enough room for him to improve and develop into an interestin...

The premise of this was intriguing, but sadly it did not live up to my expectations. I was excited to read this, since it is a series dedicated to a new and foreign hero with Superman’s powers. However, I was disappointed from the very beginning: the hero, Kenan Kong, was a bully with very little redeeming qualities. They tried to explain why he was a bully much later, but not convincingly. I don’t think this sends out a great message to younger readers either, seeing as a bully receives the gif...

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Interesting and fresh, but with a super strong 'YA' feel.

2.5.This book rubbed me the wrong way.World: The art is okay, it's a bit inconsistent but overall it's okay. There's not a lot of motion and the character designs are a bit similar. The world building here...where do I start. I like the idea of an Asian Supes (props for DC to represent and have a Chinese writer on it). The setting is different, and you can tell very much that DC wanted to set this book apart from the Superman norm. However, the world, especially the politics, political climate,

The thing about starting a story with an unlikable protagonist is that you need to make him likable by the end, or at the very least bring the reader onboard so they understand their point of view and can sympathise.While I did sympathise with Kenan by the end because of his tragic past, he still comes across as a real arsehole. He discovers that his powers only work if his intentions are aligned with the real Superman, meaning he has to truly believe he's doing things for Truth, Justice, all th...