Product Description: Its been seventeen years since Superman disappeared. Now, sunspot activity has given Jon Kenta young man who has no idea that he is related to the Man of Steelsome truly unexpected powers. Jons discovery of a heritage he never imagined takes him on a whirlwind adventure in which he is recruited by a terrorist group called the Supermen and set on a dangerous course to find out what really happened to his father.
GREAT STORY This was a really cool story. If you like fantasy and adventure and alternate versions of the Family of EL (as in Jor-El, Kal-El); this is a great read. So different than just reading a Superman comic-better
Son Of -- This is a great else-where story. You would like to think it could fit in with the normal DC universe.
A story that is well-told, but with many flaws (Note: This review contains spoilers) Set twenty five years after "The Death of Superman" and fifteen years after his disappearance and second apparent death, the narrative picks up with the life of teenage Jon Kent, the son of Clark and Lois. This is a different world, where the US Federal Government has abridged certain freedoms for a stiff "law and order" stance, the Justice League is federally funded, and Lex Luthor supplies them both.
The Deus Ex Machina is that Lex has been biding his time, working his roots in and placing all of his chess pieces in the needed places on the board. The problem is that it reads like a second rate ripoff of the The Watchmen, taking a formulaic "rich people bad and oppress the poor" approach, resulting in a lackluster and somewhat convoluted plot (his final stroke was going to be to buy up 60% of the national debt and take "controlling interest" of the US government, as if that's possible...) where Lex is less the worthy arch-nemesis of the Man of Steel and more of a cardboard villain.
The Justice League has also changed over this time, becoming overly comfortable with royalties and government paychecks and not a little jaded. Again, there are problems. The way their compromises are portrayed is oddly exaggerated and entirely inconsistent with the long-established core characters; Wonder Woman funding a terrorist group (lead by Pete Ross and Lana Lang), Aquaman allowing tourism in Atlantis, or Bruce Wayne becoming comfortable with being a federal employee. Further, we get no insight in to *how* they came to be the way they are, so we're left with accepting these radical changes with no compelling reasons as to why.
But perhaps the most glaring blemish on this book is the heavy-handed one-trick-pony social commentary that reads like a Reagan-era tirade: The ultra-rich have gotten richer and the poor poorer with the help of federal laws that took away economic rights and "tore up the Constitution." With this stark image of the world the reader has again been given no real explanation as to how it came to be (how did Lex and the unnamed wealthy convince millions of voters to support these laws?), so whatever one's political standpoint, you're still left accepting that it simply happened.
On the up side, the art is well done and the story well told. Thus, it isn't a bad book, just mediocre. If you want an Elseworlds tale along similar lines that holds up better, try reading JLA: The Nail or Kingdom Come.
this is never going to happen. judgeing by thir personalitys this is never going to happen What happend to the other super heros? and where is pete and lana's son? seeing john kick luthor's butt really made me feel good. and superman too. he has broken down supes dna so now luthor has gotten superman's powers.
P.S. we get to see wonder woman in a night gown.
heros: john, superman, lois lane, green lantern, flash, martian manhunter, wonder woman, aquaman, batman, lana lang, pete ross.
villans: lex luthor, morgan edge {mentioned.}
Ultra Good book The book "Son of Superman" was one of the most awesomest books I have ever read. Although it has the same proablems all Graphic novels has, Shortness, it is still a good buy. the takes place in the future where an evil martian manhunter got superman and the world has become place where order is more than justice. The JLA become surrenders to the man and works on a payroll, not even a justice team anymore they're justice a symbol to help the goverment keep control.
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