A solid start. World: The art is great, what you expect from Gary Frank and Robinson, there is a realism and grounded nature to their art that is amazing, especially the characters and their ability to convey emotions. The world building is also great, it's the continuation of 'Brainiac' and it's the change of the status quo that is Kandor. There are a lot of pieces and potential fallout so it's great for drama. Story: I will be honest, I love Jimmy but I found his story boring, convoluted and d...

An interesting beginning to what could be an epic tale of epicness.

If you ever found yourself saying "I need 85 pages of Jimmy Olsen before I get into a Superman story", this is the book for you. If not.....pass.

True this installment in the New Krypton storyline (which I believe will cover four volumes) has a little bit of everything. Science fiction, conspiracies, government cover-ups, etc. Not much characters work here, but a solid entertaining story.

Man this volume felt SO uneven. So the first half of this book is basically Jimmy: The Story Of somebody Nobody Cares About. Jimmy goes after a hidden figure, and soon is hunted down, and honestly...Jimmy is just...ugh we'll get to that later. On the second half of this story Clark goes to his new Krypton which is right near his icey palace. Superman is trying to figure out what to do. Now there's a ton of people on Earth similar to him in power and powers. People flip out and are scared as fuck...

The first of 4 volumes following the events of Superman: Brainiac. In defeating Brainiac, Superman freed the bottle city of Kandor, which is now full sized and on Earth. He reunites with his Aunt & Uncle Alura and Zor-El (and they reunite with their daughter, Kara aka. Supergirl). In the meanwhile, Jimmy Olsen uncovers some very odd information about a Cadmus project and a government Assassin and seeks answers from The Guardian.Clark also deals with the aftermath of his father's death just previ...

This first volume of the last pre new 52 superman event is fun but has some issues. Jimmy Olsen and Guardian specials are decent stories but but they do not work as well at the very beginning of this story. Also I found myself still at a loss over who Guardian is by the end of his special. Perhaps, it's that I never heard of him before these issues, but I feel I needed more context of what he is in the Superman mythos. Everything else in this book is great. A strong concept and execution leads t...

It's okay. I liked the tension with Alura refusing hand over Kryptonian killers and not trusting the humans. I didn't care much for the big fight, which was corny - can anybody explain to me why, even in comic book logic, Zatanna saying "shazam" backwards would depower Kryptonians? - and the entire storyline felt very drawn out. The best chapters were James Robinson's Jimmy Olsen and Guardian specials, where he really got to dive into a solid mystery/noir vibe, and gave the book a feel of actual...

2.5 stars"The people on Earth are good, for the most part." -- Superman, on page 109Right there with ya, Supes - I just wish I could say the same about this volume. Taking place on the heels of Superman: Last Son of Krypton (which I coincidentally read just last month, and found to be exceptionally good), New Krypton, Vol. 1 makes a big strategic mistake by opening with a boring, dialogue-heavy story that doesn't even feature our title character. Instead, readers are treated to Jimmy Olsen on so...

Wow! This might actually be a Superman story that has legs. First thing I noticed: James Robinson is writing most of it and I like most of his stuff.Second: The story line is intriguing – Kandor, the Kryptonian city in a bottle captured by Brainiac, has been restored on Earth, right next to Superman’s Arctic Fortress of Solitude.As the disaster porn that was the movie, Man of Steel revealed, Superman had huge problems with a handful of Krytonians, now there’s over 100,000.What if the all want o...

Pretty good. I am in the process of going back to read the DC Comics stuff Pre-Flashpoint and New 52. The book featured the writing of two of my favorite comic book authors, Geoff Johns & James Robinson. This story is just really cool. The first half of the book finds Jimmy Olsen trying to step up his reporter skills. Olsen is investigating a mysterious organization that is using cloning and other weird experiments to create an army to combat Superman. Meanwhile Supes has a problem that hits clo...

Well this sucked. At least the first half. The first portion of this story is Jimmy Olsen following a few leads. Thats it. if you were expecting Superman to be in act 1 and 2 of a Superman book you'd be disappointed, I was. On top of that it was confusing as hell. I read this after reading the awesome Superman: Brainiac story by Geoff Johns. What a let down. This is the next chapter of that story and I thought that Johns was going to be the sole author again, it sounded great. That leads to the

What are the powers and abilities of Commander Gor?

This one was good and like starts with a Jim Olsen story as he is trying to find something related to the Guardian and he comes across Codename Assassin a man named Jon Drew and he is targeting him now. Meanwhile Olsen tries to find the clone of Jim Harper and learns more about this project and we get his POV and that entailed there and its fascinating to find it but its presented in a boring way with too much exposition and even the motive isn't that clear.And finally the main story starts with...

New Krypton picks up from the end of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Superman: Brainiac, when Superman defeated Brainiac and freed the bottled city of Kandor, formerly Krypton’s lost capital. My memory’s hazy on this point but I thought he took Kandor to Mars before he resized it back to normal so the inhabitants wouldn’t get superpowers like he did and dominate Earth? Anyway, in this book Kandor is resized in Antarctica and the 100,000 inhabitants get the same superpowers that Superman has. If Lex...

It took me a while to get into this one. It is okay but doesn't get to Superman until halfway through. You'll probably be better off picking something else.

Good book. It took me a little bit to get into the Jimmy Olsen opening story line but then the pages flew. Kandor meet Earth, Earth meet Kandor. The story is very X-men like. Fear of homosuperiors, etc. Oh and the apparent death of another major character in the Superman universe...somehow I think they'll find a way to bring this one back though.

Wow.So...we covered a lot of ground in this chapter.Not sure if they gave me enough of each new topic.The Lex Luthor part is very well done..One of the best Luthor rants.Supergirl seems less..I don't know just less. I thought we were going to see a much more impactful Supergirl. Maybe I have been reading the signs wrong. [Red Lanterns level anger]The other Kryptonians are still shadows in the background..but a story done well.

It was the last great pre-TheNew52 Superman storyline. It was supposed to entertain and enlighten and energize the Superman books for years to come. It was one of the most massive, interconnected tales of Kal-El ever told.And I thoroughly enjoyed it.And I think I was one of the few who did.And that is a complete shame.Superman New Krypton is a storyline that takes place over almost two years worth of Superman, Action Comics, Supergirl, Superboy, World of New Krypton, Adventure Comics and various...