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@ Pop Syndicate--- Adventure Comics #3

"The biggest problem with Johns’ Superboy story here is that, at best, Superboy is functioning in a supporting role.  The last two issues have revealed more about Wonder Girl and Red Robin than they have about Superboy.  This issue even reveals more about Krypto’s loyalty than it does about Superboy.  Going back to the start of Geoff Johns’ run on Teen Titans, Conner Kent has remained a blank state, searching for a purpose.  Of what we’ve seen in this series so far, Conner is only interesting insofar as it’s been fascinating to see Johns tell about the reaction to Conner’s return.  Wonder Girl’s search for what their relationship is or Red Robin’s lack of direction are far more gripping than Superboy trying to figure out chem class or checking off what makes him the same as or different from Superman and Lex Luthor."

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I'm caught up right now in a love/hate relation with Adventure Comics.  Part of me loves it in a Dawson Creek way (not that I ever really loved Dawson Creek) but this should be that kind of story where you can almost hear Paula Cole's "I Don't Want to Wait Forever" softly in the background but then it gets bogged down with Lex Luthor and Brainiac showing up as the evil geniuses whose cackling you can practically hear throughout the entire book.  I'm liking this book on one level but fear the eventual Luthor/Superboy meeting.

But the Francis Manapul artwork is fantastic.  I hope this is the style he uses on Flash.