Bringing Honey Bagder into this book almost ruins it. I'm not sure if this decision was Tamaki's or if it was mandated by editorial, but it drags down what otherwise would have been a pretty good book. X-23 was always written as a very dark, borderline sociopathic character for a decade before Brian Michael Bendis decided to denude her of any personality in his All New X-Men. Tom Taylor doubled down on this terrible development by creating Honey Badger, a character who seemingly exists simply for Laura to have inane conversations with her. Mariko Tamaki should do herself a favor and kill off Honey Badger ASAP.

Otherwise, the art was pretty great. I also liked how the Stepford Cuckoos have returned to being more or less identical. Another Bendis sin was when he tried to give the three remaining Cuckoos individual looks and personalities. But by making them distinct from each other, he removed the thing that made them different from all the other students, and that made them boring. I hate Bendis so much. Kudos to Tamaki for going full Cuckoo. more

Truth, Justice and The Globalist way? Bendis you are a joke. I hope this was a fake Martian Manhunter. Ivan Reis’s art is wasted on such a garbage story.

This series picks up right where Bendis’s mini left off.

-the art was beautiful
-it was cool to see Superman doing Super things
-the flashbacks with Lois were really nice (hopefully she comes back to the series soon)

-i’ve already had more than enough of mopey Superman from the New52
-Jon does not act a THING like Jon.
-Bendis still has Flash acting like an idiot.
-the tone of this comic felt very unbalanced.

while the interruptions of Superman and Martian Manhunter’s conversations felt really forced,
i didn’t mind them as they did help break up an awful lot of painful dialog.
unfortunately it didn’t really make that dialog any more interesting though.

was not all that thrilled with the reveal at the end. more