About Heroes

Writer: Geoff Johns & Sterling Gates

Artists: Pete Woods & Jerry Ordway

 

Another Sinestro Corps tie-in worthy of your money.  This time it's Superman-Prime, formerly known as Superboy-Prime in Infinite Crisis.  This book focuses on Superman-Prime as the Green Lantern books have been ignoring him.  This issue is all battle and flashbacks.  Superman-Prime lands on earth, takes on the heroes in an epic battle penciled by Pete Woods and interweaves his story with Jerry Ordway art.  We see how he lived on his earth, how he got roped into the Crisis, and his corruption by Alexander Luthor.  Now he's out to reclaim the Earth, and make the Anti-Moniter bow in his wake, after the Anti-Moniter has taken over of course.  Johns uses a cool story point that Superman-Prime is still wearing his energy collecting suit, and thus is collecting the Yellow Sun after being imprisoned in that Red Sun on Oa for over a year.  The heroes stand more of a chance against him since he's not at full power yet, making the battle less outrageous.  It gives the heroes a chance, at least until the sun rises in a great scene.  Also, Risk appears again, can you guess what happens to him when he tries to take on Superman-Prime again?  That was the best moment of the book, even if there was som deja vu going on. 

 

The second story is a backup where Lyssa Drak tells the story of another of the Sinestro Corps members to some Green Lanterns.  It's written by Sterling Gates with art by Jerry Ordway, it's ok, not doesn't trump anything Johns did in his Sinestro Corps back ups with Dave Gibbons.  This was a really good read and it fits in nicely with the stories in Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps, as they are focusing on Hal and Guy and not the villains all the time. Pete Woods finally is doing art with a good story after Amazons Attack! He does a great job here, and seems to work well with Johns and Superman, just see their great Up, Up, and Away arc.  Go grab this book if your curious about what Superman-Prime has been up to after Infinite Crisis or are enjoying the Sinestro Corps War, you won't regret it.  B+