{"id":375,"date":"2007-05-31T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=375"},"modified":"2007-05-31T08:30:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T08:30:01","slug":"superman-birthright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/31\/superman-birthright\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: Birthright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/supbirth.jpg\" alt=\"Superman: Birthright\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Waid<\/strong>, <strong>Yu<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Alanguilan<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-013-1<\/p>\n<p>This wonderfully user-friendly re-tooling of the most rewritten origin in the history of comics pays loads of lip service to the most common modern conception of the first super-hero \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that of the <strong>Smallville<\/strong> TV show &#8211; whilst still managing to hew closely to many of the fan-favourite idiosyncrasies that keep old duffers like me coming back for more.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with Clark Kent&#8217;s protracted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gap-year\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when he wandered the planet, secretly doing good, through his early moments with Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, et. al., and ending with the saving of Metropolis, the calamitous \u00e2\u20ac\u201c albeit temporary \u00e2\u20ac\u201c downfall of Lex Luthor and the public acceptance of this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153strange visitor from another world\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Mark Waid and Lenil Yu have produced a feisty reworking that shouldn&#8217;t offend the faithful whilst providing an efficient jump-on guide for any late-comers and potential converts. And it&#8217;s much more fun to read than this review, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2003, 2004 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Waid, Yu &amp; Alanguilan (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-013-1 This wonderfully user-friendly re-tooling of the most rewritten origin in the history of comics pays loads of lip service to the most common modern conception of the first super-hero \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that of the Smallville TV show &#8211; whilst still managing to hew closely to many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/31\/superman-birthright\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superman: Birthright&#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":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-superman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-63","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}