{"id":163,"date":"2007-04-14T09:13:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T09:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:10:47","slug":"superman-up-up-and-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/14\/superman-up-up-and-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: Up, Up and Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/suua.jpg\" title=\"Superman: Up, Up and Away!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/suua.jpg\" alt=\"Superman: Up, Up and Away!\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Kurt Busiek<\/strong>, <strong>Geoff Johns<\/strong>, <strong>Pete Woods<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Renato Guedes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(DC Comics)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84576-348-3<\/p>\n<p>After the never-ending calamity of the DC <strong>Infinite Crisis<\/strong> event, the company re-set the time line of all their publications to begin one year later. This enabled them to refit their characters as they saw fit, provide a jumping on point for new converts and also gave themselves some narrative wiggle-room.<\/p>\n<p>During that missing year, Superman vanished and Supergirl became the guardian of Metropolis. Clark Kent and his wife lived a normal, happy and successful life. Clark had adapted to a human scale of operation, but now that&#8217;s all about to change.<\/p>\n<p>Lex Luthor is freed from prison \u00e2\u20ac\u201c corporate lawyers never lose their powers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and moves to retake &#8216;his city&#8217;, the ex-Man of Steel still consorts with the likes of Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, but chooses to fight evil with a typewriter and a press pass. So when a plague of villains attacks, he&#8217;s helpless to resist the assault. Luckily that&#8217;s when his powers start to return, just as Luthor takes control of an ancient Kryptonian warship and moves to conquer the world. Can a gradually recovering but markedly under par Superman defeat the limitless power of the Kryptonite warship and regain his pre-eminent status as Earth&#8217;s greatest hero?<\/p>\n<p>Of course he can. There&#8217;s no suspense here, and I suspect no attempt was made to create any. Everybody knows how this will end and the creators have wisely concentrated on spectacle rather than narrative. After the establishing set-ups there is a dogged trudge to the inevitable triumph and then the board is cleared for new adventures. This is not a great start for the rebooted Man of Tomorrow but it is a necessary one, although I do wonder how this story would have evolved if the movie <strong>Superman Returns<\/strong> had been released in a different year\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Kurt Busiek, Geoff Johns, Pete Woods &amp; Renato Guedes (DC Comics)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84576-348-3 After the never-ending calamity of the DC Infinite Crisis event, the company re-set the time line of all their publications to begin one year later. This enabled them to refit their characters as they saw fit, provide a jumping on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/14\/superman-up-up-and-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superman: Up, Up and Away!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-superhero","category-superman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-2D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}