Superman: Son of Kal-El continues to be an excellent series up there with Taylor's perfect series, Nightwing. It explores what it would be like if Superman was younger and newer to being a superhero, but also more adamant than ever to save everyone and everything without violence. Read Full Review

The visuals here are great, but I should say that this issue has several art teams that overall mesh well. However, the shift is pretty obvious at points. It looks good if not flawless, but the story is top-notch as always. Read Full Review

Superman: Son Of Kal-El #12 builds the plot more, and its an entertaining read, but its not as great as it was in the beginning. Maybe Taylor is holding things off for the future, and the art is good, but compared to some of the other DC books coming out on a monthly basis, its par for the course Read Full Review

Superman: Son of Kal-El continues to be an outstanding book and this week's #12 is pretty great as well. Read Full Review

The superhero community embracing Jon as Superman has been a big part of whats made the title so enjoyable. Now its time for Superman to reward that faith by facing down Bendix and finally getting a big win against his archenemy. Read Full Review

That is a decent cliffhanger. Jay can't be an anonymous news agency when everyone knows who he is. What will the fallout be? This was a fine issue. But it seemed to just be restating the overall plot over again. We are 11 issues in. It might be time for us to pick up the pace. Read Full Review

While I still like this series overall, the lack of progression is really starting to get to me, especially this issue in that it feels like everything that is done here is done in a way that isn't really thought out and makes everyone involved look pretty dumb. Yeah, the art is great throughout and we get to an interesting cliffhanger, but the majority of our story felt lacking the whole way through. Read Full Review

I do enjoy the book, but the slow pacing and doesn’t Lex know that Bruce is Batman and Dick is Nightwing?

And of course Jon should be 10

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RKS - Jun 23, 2022

He writes Lex as if he is a moron, Taylor doesn't get or even respect the character as a worthy advisory for Jon. That's the problem, the reader doesn't care because he hasn't taken the time to flush out challenges for Jon to overcome.

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Decent issue with some story progression but Lex being an idiot and Jay being allowed into the white house wearing a mask were both too ridiculous.

Things that were dumb: Dick planting a bug when Jon has super -hearing, and his visit hasno other purpose: Bringing Krypto to a senator's office; a giant monster springing out of the senator.Superman so openly aligning with a fringe journalist outfitted like a terrorist. Dumb stuff

Too many things didn't work in this issue.
It was recently confirmed that Luthor knows that Bruce is Batman and Dick is Nightwing. Luthor actually killed Dick Grayson before, so him suddenly acting like he doesn't know, or being so easily outsmarted with the listening device just didn't work well. Jon didn't really do anything notable except for coming up with a very weird plan to spy on Luthor, and Batman's problems with Jay weren't addressed.
The art, especially in the Nightwing-Luthor part, wasn't great, and the characters looked pretty bad.

The art is bad, the story is bad, every single portrayal of Jonathan makes him look either mopey or constipated

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Batmanaholic - Jun 18, 2022

Hey I'd take a moody constipated Tim drake over the suddenly super twink he is now, drawn with girls eyelashes and chibi art super happy style. God this is the dumbest time in comics history.

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There is a lot in this issue that just doesn't make sense. They write Lex Luthor as if he wasn't a super genius. They are able to listen in using a bug that goes unnoticed, he calls Bendix within 5 minutes of Dick Grayson leaving?! He's Lex Luthor not some dumb teenage street hood. Talk about writing a plot of convivence. Also, why would Jon need a bug when he has super hearing? The only interesting character in this issue was Krypto and his use was just a cheap attempt to appease long time Superman fans as they shovel the newer characters down your throat. This entire issue was a filler issue that doesn't do much. They need to kill off Jon and have Superman come back to the books. Save your money kids.

More garbage