Overall, this issue was a fun read with great character moments, and it leaves the reader wanting to know more about the North Korean Aqua-Man, with his mysterious powers and his heartbreaking story of oppression. The creative team had a little bit of a rough start last issue with the title change, and the new focus on the League, but part two of the arc found its footing, and the story is shaping up to be one of the best this book has seen since it began. Read Full Review

The scope and scale of New Super-Man and the Justice League of China continues to expand with the new rebranding, and issue #21 is one of the series' best. Read Full Review

The stakes are raised and the action is intense in this second installment about a guy defecting from North Korea under pressure from some friends. Those friends happen to be giant mythical spider crabs. This book is well-paced and very engrossing, and if you didn't jump onto this series last issue when the status quo changed, get off the fence and check it out! Read Full Review

I am always entertained by this comic. I look forward to it every month. This issue encapsulates it so well. Asian mythology and philosophy. Familial angst. Teen romance. All somehow gelled in a great story. I will enjoy this book as long as it lasts. Read Full Review

This issue of New Super-Man and the JLC is a fun, well drawn, and impactful story. Read Full Review

New Super-Man is firing on all engines and capturing everything readers might want from a young adult title on scales big and small. - Read Full Review

The moment I saw the cover of this issue, I knew I want to read it, because it may as well be "so bad it's actually good". You know, like Hong Kong 97, or The Room. Just the catchphrase, "introducing the new Aqua-Man of North Korea" was enough for me to buy it, and expect a trip I wouldn't get from any weed or shrooms. Too bad it wasn't really a trip, and didn't make laugh as i expected. Instead, it was a painfully obvious one dimentional political commentary made by someone who knows very little about global politics to begin with.
Look, I like good political commentary - Alan Moore and Frank Miller nailed the mid 1980s cold war paranoia devouring the US in Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns respectively, for example, and that's one of the reasons these stories are fantastic. On the other hand, there's modern day Marvel Comics, placing their regressive, tokenist commentary over the stories and characters. I have a feeling DC just did what Marvel is infamous for these days.
The issue reads more like propaganda than a regular comic, but to be fair, it makes few solid points here and there, like general hopelessness of someone who grew up in a totalitarian country and was brainwashed, conditioned, programmed, since day 1, to think one, particular way. It all lacks any subtlety and finesse, though, and that's the problem. It' just too obvious and too naive to be taken seriously as a whole, using scarewords like "socialism" or "imperialism" to sounds smart, while in reality it's not. Reality is more complex - too complex for such silly little comic to be captured. more