Superman Family Adventures #10

   Superman Family Adventures by Art Baltazar and Franco is one of my favorite all-ages series. It's normally very well written, humorous, and extremely clever. I'm not sure what happened with this issue.

   Superman in an attempt to reunite his mother and father accidentally frees General Zod and family from the Phantom Zone. Zod's got revenge on his mind and he's decided to take it out on the Family of Steel by selling... hot dogs? When Zod uses a special salt to turn dogs 50 feet tall in an attempt to conqueror the earth, I literally slapped my head and tossed this book across the room. Meanwhile, a Brainiac drone visited Superman's space satellite and dressed up as a cowboy. What the---

    This issue was awful. It's the worst one of the entire series and I was so disappointed. I've read dozens of stories by Baltazar and Franco and I've never been disappointed. But sometimes even the Yankees lose a World Series or two...

    This issue does progress the story line of Superman's mother surviving the destruction of Krypton. And I thought having her and Zod's wife be like two doting housewives while the hubby's fight it out was very funny. But that was about the only thing about this issue that was any good.

   Not Worth Consuming

   Rating: 4 out of 10 stars.

Superman Family Adventures #8

   

   A few months ago I was able to check out several issues from this dynamic all-ages series devoted to the Family of Steel. I had found issues 7-12 but somehow overlooked this issue. Was it checked out or just misshelved? I'm not sure, but it did provide cause for quite a bit of confusion.
 
    Between issues 7 and 9, it was somehow revealed that A) Brainiac was behind a plot to overthrow the earth and B) Kara, the mother of Superman had survived the destruction of Krypton! The Brainiac revelation wasn't such a shock, as his emblem of 3 connected dots had been popping up since issue #1. But having Superman's mother be in fact alive was a big shock to me.

   How did this happened? And did this also occur in the pre-New 52 DC Universe?

   Well, I can't answer the second question but I can say- Oh who am I kidding? It's a major spoiler. You'll just have to read it for yourself.

    But at least I got my answer- finally.

  Worth Consuming

  Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.

DC Nation Super Sampler/Superman Family Adventures Free Comic Book Day Flip Book (2012)

The Green Lantern B-side cover.

 

Art Baltazar does it again with the preview of his latest DC Kid’s book Superman Family Adventures. Just like Tiny Titans, it’s cleverly written for kids but offers lots of Easter eggs for grown-ups. It’s like a Disney movie, offering a little something that all ages can enjoy.

There are also two very good short stories about Cartoon Network properties Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series. The art is spot on to their respective shows and the plots are quite good. Even better- they are original stories and not verbatim rip-offs of episodes I've already seen.

Worth Consuming.

Rating: 9 out 10 stars.