Superman Family Gets Its Post-Reboot Preview

With the news of the Bat-Family's fate semi-revealed, the next big question became, "What's going to happen to Superman and who's going to write it?"

Action Comics #1 will be written by none other than Grant Morrison, the acclaimed writer of All-Star Superman. If there were any doubts that this reboot is not being carefully looked at, this might as well have quashed them. Morrison knows Superman better than any writer out there and if his work on All-Star is any indication, we're going to get a Superman reboot worthy of the gods. As long as he sticks to what he does best, Morrison has the potential to create a legendary comic book.

Superman #1 will be written by George Perez, the writer of Crisis on Infinite Earths and probably the greatest written stories of the Wonder Woman comic during the 90s. While Action Comics #1 will serve as a reboot story, Superman #1 shows the present and how things have changed post-reboot. Notably, Superman's costume has changed and closely resembles the costume Wizard chose to be a costume for Superman should they ever change it. Hopefully Perez still has it in him, because it's going to be tough to follow in the shoes of Morrison.

This is where things start to worry me. Supergirl #1 will be written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson, writers of Smallville and Superman/Batman. This comic is described as "Supergirl’s got the unpredictable behavior of a teenager, the same powers as Superman and none of his affection for the people of Earth." That statement really worries me because what made Supergirl's most recent take so good was that she arrives on Earth suddenly getting superpowers without the time it took Clark Kent to learn his. Kara isn't sure what she is; she's used to having no superpowers and would love to fit in with humans, but she's a Kryptonian thrust into battle simply because of what planet she's from and who her cousin is.

"None of the affection for the people of Earth" is a horrible way to describe Supergirl. I'm already going to be cancelling this one from my pull-file.

Finally, Superboy #1 is described as, "They thought he was just a failed experiment, grown from a combination of Kryptonian and human DNA. But when the scope of his stunning powers was revealed, he became a deadly weapon." This is actually similar to Superboy's origin in Reign of the Supermen combined with the later knowledge that he is a hybrid of Superman and Lex Luthor. I'm not digging the Tron inspired outfit, nor the implications on the cover that Superboy is a robot. I was never a fan of Superboy anyway, so I won't be picking this up. Superboy #1 will be written by Scott Lobdell, known mostly for writing Uncanny X-Men in the 90s and the new writer of Red Hood and the Outlaws and Teen Titans. Lobdell is the first announced writer to be working triple duty.