This book is B-A-D. _-----Spoilers Ahead! Beware!!!!----- I don't even know where to start. I know! Let's start with the dialogue. The dialogue is awful. For one thing, Bendis is obsessed with 'poop'. He had Jon say the word in the dumbest manner. For some reason Bendis is obsessed with putting the word 'poop' in his recent DC comics or referencing 'poop'. He even had the Flash say "Cacapoopoo" and had Batman "empty his bowels" in an issue. Bendis has an unhealthy obsession with feces, from it being used as an adjective to actual act of defecating. I don't know if Bendis finds this hilarious (maybe he's a huge Adam Sandler fan) or if it's some gross fetish thing. But it is just gross and immature. I know I ask much from DC comics, but is it too much to ask that their heroes NOT be obsessed with 'poop'? I digress, ignoring the feces, Jon sounds more like a five-year old in the flashbacks than a ten-year-old and the way he talks is so different than any of his other appearances. Has Bendis never read a comic with Jon before (wouldn't be surprised). Also Lobo sounds like a Jersey Shore cast member. Another problem, Bendis has made Lois and Clark into the worst parents in the history of DC comics. They make Batman and Goku look better in comparison. They both abandoned their only son with a deranged maniac with no second thought and act shocked when bad things happen. This is Jor-El? The guy who kidnapped and tried to kill so many people during the Oz storyline? What's crazier is that they act like they never trusted Jor-El yet still abandoned Jon with him over dumb reasons. They are the worst parents on the planet. Even Bruce is a better father. Lois acts so upset over Jon's situation yet she's still the one that left him up there over petty reasons. Between this and her actions in Heroes in Crisis, one would expect that DC/Dan-Dildio are purposely trying to ruin the character (which wouldn't be the first time). They have made Lois into such a horrible self-fish character that it is disgusting. And then there's Jon. Bendis and DC have already ruined him by aging him up. They took part of what made hi interesting and twisted for their own sick pleasure and lazy drama. It's not even excuted well. Jon is 17, spent so many years away from his family, but still acts like a "kid"? (well, according to Bendis). Not to mention him taking pleasure in violence (something uncharacteristic of him). Even giving him a "scar to remind him that he's human" is just stupid hacky and cringy writing trying to sound deep. I remember in an interview that Bendis said he didn't want his Superman run to be like Zack Snyder's Superman. That his Superman was going to be more inspirational and hopeful. Yet what has Bendis accomplished thus far? Well, he aged up Jon taking away thousands of possible unique stories. He destroyed the interesting family dynamic from the rebirth era that was so great. He turned Superman and Lois into the WORST parents of the DCU. He retconned the destruction of Krypton (because heaven-forbid that Superman's origin doesn't have Bendis's sticky fingers all over it). He created two bland villain OCs (Rogal Zaar is the most generic villain ever. He's like a parody of comic book villains you see made fun of in cartoons). He genocided Kandor for shockvalue and to make Rogal Zaar look evil because lazy writing (I'm shocked he didn't have him shoot Barbara Gordon so we all know he's double evil! OoooooOOOOOOooooooh!!!). He turned Lois into a crazy person that hides from her husband. He hyped up the return of Nuclear Man then killed him off unceremoniously to make Rogal Zaar look good. And worst of all, he turned Superman into a sociopath that thinks about constantly killing Batman. For all of Bendis's bragging that he was going to make a Superman more light-hearted than anything Zack Snyder has done, he has made a Superman that is as bad if not worse. His Superman is a sociopath that dreams of killing his teammate and lets his family go alone with a supervillainn that tried to kill people without any investigation (at this point I expect Bendis to have Clark tell Jon he needs to let a bus of kids drown soon). This issue and everything Bendis has done with Superman has been the complete opposite of his Rebirth comics i.e fun and exciting. Bendis's Superman is nothing but the same old comic industry tropes and cliches with forced unatural drama that requires characters being dumb and is just trying too hard to be edgy and serious. He may wear his underwear on the outside, but this person is anything but Super. And this issue cements Bendis's Superman as terrible, unoriginal, and ,worst of all, unfun. On the plus side, the art was alright.