Superboy #2

Superboy #2 starts off right where #1 ends, with Superboy proving what a danger he is to himself and those around him. And of course, the secret organization “N.O.W.H.E.R.E.” wants to unleash him on “Red Robin and the others.” We have the classic standoff: scientist working directly with the project claims it's not ready, owner/financier of the project wants immediate results, preferably of the destructive, deadly kind.

This dynamic isn't wholly original, but it works well enough here, possibly because Rose Wilson shifts the chemistry just enough. Again, Rose here is a pleasant surprise, but Scott Lobdell hasn't really gotten into her character that much yet. As someone who's personality has shifted more than a few times in the DC Universe, I'm interested as to what role she'll play in this universe. 

Superboy #1

Confession: I technically already wrote and published Superboy #1. However, what I realized the day after I posted the blog entry was that it was Superboy #1 published in January 2011 and written by Jeff Lemeire, not September 2011 by Scott Lobdell. So I deleted it, frustrated because there went a lot of now-wasted time right out the window.

That's why this review is coming a few weeks late. And sadly, this review isn't as positive as the one about Jeff Lemeire's #1. Not to say this issue by Scott Lobdell and drawn by R.B. Silva is subpar, because it's not, but it does win the unique award of being the second-best Superboy #1 this year.

Superboy #1 is an origin story. Which honestly, is rather annoying. Superboy is one of those characters whose origins is rather convoluted and has been retconned over and over. To add yet another origin just makes it more confusing. The problem with characters who have lackluster, nonsensical, or overall poor origins, is that every new writer tries to improve upon it, and make it the definitive origin for that character, and most just make it worse.