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By Greg Rucka<\/strong>, Geoff Johns<\/strong>, Matthew Clark<\/strong> & Rags Morales<\/strong> (DC Comics) A character that has been continuously published for nearly seventy years can have some fairly extreme highs and lows. More often than not the lows are the real killer, as that’s when fans jump ship. Sometimes that’s nothing more than a portion of the audience being out of step with editorial thinking. Sometime the product is just not good enough. I’m not going to say which I think is the blame for my belief here, that after a woefully poor period recently, an element of reasonable quality is creeping back into Superman’s adventures.<\/p>\n That Healing Touch<\/strong> (reprinting Adventures of Superman<\/strong> #633-638 and Superman Secret Files 2004<\/strong>) moves once again towards an element of closer continuity between tales as it tells of an ongoing duel between our hero and the despicable villain Ruin who seems hell-bent on testing Superman by attacking all his friends.<\/p>\n Also welcome after so many months of testosterone drenched agony and angst are a few lighter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if somewhat portentous \u00e2\u20ac\u201c moments signalled by the carefully handled appearances of the interdimensional sprite and long-time gadfly Mr Mxyzptlk (it’s a measure of my inherent Comic Guy Sadness that I typed that last word without having to look it up, and despite the sirens, steam and funny little croaking, pleading noises emanating from my spell-checker, I’m just not going to ‘Add To Dictionary’).<\/p>\n If the impetus continues to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153back\u00e2\u20ac\u009d toward story and characterisation over torn S-shirts and snarling we could be in for a veritable reading renaissance.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 By Greg Rucka, Geoff Johns, Matthew Clark & Rags Morales (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-196-0 A character that has been continuously published for nearly seventy years can have some fairly extreme highs and lows. More often than not the lows are the real killer, as that’s when fans jump ship. Sometimes that’s nothing more than … <\/p>\n
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