This is quite a change from last month’s Superboy.  They have taken the core concept of the character and put in a completely new way.  I’m not sure how they are going to reconcile this with the past Superboy stories?  Do they not exist?  Does this take place directly after the death of Superman?  I don’t know if they will every attempt to explain it.

The writer does a good job of introducing the characters, powers and setting, and we get a few surprises along the way.  The Rose character is vastly different than the virtual version and that was fun to see.  It was interesting to see how amoral a super-being could be.  I’m sure we’ll see how he develop morality, but it could lend itself to wacky hijinks for quite awhile.

The book ties directly into Teen Titans, but I hope it will be able to breathe on its own.  The art is nice and clean.  It is quite stylized with cartoony expressions and thick black boarders around the characters that make them seem like cardboard cut outs.

Interesting B-     —- Don

Superboy has another new origin story, keeping the basics of being a clone who is part Superman and part someone else (I hope it’s still Luthor, but if there’s a better idea I’d like to see that, too). They leave a lot up in the air as to when this takes place in relation to Superman’s “new” history and seems like it will segue into the Teen Titans story. There’s a mostly new supporting cast, bringing over Rose Wilson (not sure if she’s still Deathstrokes daughter, we’ll see…) and mentioning a bit of the Superman supporting cast.

While he’s still a clone, at least he’s not a robot or cyborg as the cover seems to suggest. Unlike the last incarnation of Superboy, the latter part of his “origin story” is the first bit we get, though the details have yet to emerge.

C+ — Ed