“Death comes to Smallville”

Blackest Night: Superman #1 is the first issue of the second 3 issue series that D.C. is releasing in conjunction with the Blackest Night series.  This, just like the Batman one before it, is to supplement the main series with a look at the Superman universe.

The story starts in Smallville with the rising of the Golden-Age Superman and proceeds on like a horror movie.  There is a ominous feel through-out the book as the sun goes down on the small town.  You know that bad things are happening but your not quite sure how bad they are.  Is Kal-L observing people and their fear or is the story implying that he’s putting them out of their misery?  By the end of the book, nobody seems to still be around in the town, so they all could be dead!  Guess I’ll find out next issue.

I love how they introduced the Golden-Age Lois Lane from the dead but I almost thought it might be our Lois instead with everything and everybody so far in this series ripe for the picking!  I also like that New Krypton is not immune to the goings on of Blackest Night.

The book is written by James Robinson and Eddy Barrows and they did a super job at adding to the series with this book.  It looks like another winner from D.C.!

4.5 out of 5

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