John Romita Jr's art is great and there are several beautifully detailed and vibrant moments throughout the story. Read Full Review

Superman: Year One started with promise but has slid downhill from there. While the finale isn't quite the cringe-worthy wtf release that was the second issue, it's also choppy enough to make you wonder if you're missing pages. One step forward, two leaps back. Read Full Review

The final issue of Superman: Year One is an odd mishmash of decent ideas, never becoming greater than the sum of its parts. Read Full Review

This series is a confusing mess, but it's also a fascinating one that raises a lot more questions than it answers. Read Full Review

I'd say Superman: Year One is for completists only, but given the looseness and weirdness of much of its storyline, I'm not sure I can even make that endorsement. Read Full Review

Superman: Year One #3 reads like a checklist and never offers the slightest bit of stylistic flair or originality to justify this exercise in the repetition of superhero tropes. Read Full Review

This issue and the series as a whole is a hollow cash grab banking on the name of its famed author. Read Full Review

With Superman Year One #3 on the stands, Frank Miller has completed his statement on Superman. Unfortunately, its clear that that statement is Frank Miller doesnt understand Superman, either as a character or as a symbol. The book ends with Superman leaving Earth on another quest, possibly foreshadowing a Year Two; lets hope that that never comes to pass. Read Full Review

Intro totally disregarded the last issue which was confusing. The crime spree pages are drawn fantastic and was a really fun take on this new smart ass Kent. I like the way Miller writes him I just feel like Miller made a really boring story here. It was pointless and it ended without anything to really ever make you want to go back and read. Still some amazing artwork tho.

Miller almost went full all star batman here.

***Reviews the entire series***

Frank Miller is one of those writers that you can't deny as a legend in the industry, but also can't deny that he should retire. And this book is an example why. Idk if its fatigue from writing, or he lost his spark, or whatever, but this book, given it costs 8 dollars each, is totally not worth it and is second to worst in DCBL after the Dark Knight one shot also written by Frank Miller.

In short, I don't understand the end goal of this book. It just goes through his life, which is cool, but doesn't reach a level of why he becomes Superman. All it does is show how superior Superman is to humans and how many girls he can hook up with.

The Narration is confusing, sometimes its narrated by outside narration , then thoughts in somebody's head, then you have to try and figure out who's actually talking. The panelist should have color coded this better. And the editor really needed to proof read some of Miller's dialogue either due to grammatical errors or Miller's poor use of dialogue in general.

The art by Romita Jr. is nice, I really did like it on top of the really animated colors
by Alex Sinclair. But the story, the direction itself is bland. A life journey is cool, but it still needs a focal point for me, and I was presuming that focal point being how Clark became Superman. But it was handled with such muddled and boggy technique. It also felt like reading from issue to issue or even page to page, I am missing out on some information that I should know but couldn't find in the 3 books.

In short, Miller's vision of Superman is wack, incomplete and really boring if this is what Superman means to him. Glad I got these books for half off. So I don't feel too bad. But Miller seriously needs help writing or else just lay down the pencil.

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Really not good. My only praise would be that I like how the narrator talks about Superman in absolutes.

I really don’t feel like Miller knew what story he even wanted to tell. This was a jarring read with little coherence from scene to scene. And Romita Jr just never seems to work for me as an artist.

The only good thing I can say about this comic is, it ended. 3 issues of plot gibberish, jumping from one thing to another, from one character to the next. There's no depth to be found here, just things that Superman must see before he becomes Superman, all condensed o much, you can't possibly think they'd be relevant to Clark. These are one offs, as important to one's life as meeting a random person in a coffe shop and talking for two minutes, before you get your cofee, leave the building and never see this person again.

The entire 3 book long origin was a total waste - Miller failed in everything, I think. His story is uninteresting, characters are flat, have zero development, obstacles Clark faces leave a lot to be desired, to say at least, and dialogues are very stiff, unnatural.

Another miss for DC Black Label, which so far has been one never ending wave of crap, with maybe 2-3 gems hidden in between everything else. more

If I could rate this series a zero out of 10, believe me, I would. This is the worst DC Black Label comic of all time, and this is why I dont consider Frank Miller as my top writers

This is trash and everyone should be ashamed of themselves.

The retconning was terrible in the first issue and now they take some key moments of Superman’s life like meeting Batman and Wonder Woman and simplify it by rushing through these key moments. And not telling them well or correctly to begin with. So glad this is over.

Absolutely crap story by a mediocre creative team. The boring characters don't help it.