Superman’s new secret identity in DC Comics was an epic flop

DC Comics is shaking up the Superman world, with Clark about to get caught up in a protracted adventure in the world of gladiatorial warfare. Who is going to take care of Earth in the meantime? The duty will fall to his son, Jon Kent, but Jon is still figuring out what it means to measure up to his father’s massive boots.

This week, he experimented with the idea of ​​having a secret identity. Or, to put it another way, he experimented by looking absolutely disgusting. Now a white jacket and jeans is not the thing worse thing a person could wear. But a flexible blonde wig, Jon? Sunglasses? Drive a giant red jeep to school?

Trying to get the name out Finn connors?

What else is happening on the pages of our favorite comics? We will tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of books our comic book publisher enjoyed this past week. It’s part of the Superhero Lives Society pages, part of reading tips, part of “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. There may not be enough context. But there will be great comics. (And if you missed the latest edition, read this.)

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The good news is that “Finn Connors” was just a sham on the part of writer Tom Taylor and artist John Timms, and in the first 10 minutes of his first day of school, Jon had to jump into super action and blow up his front. Honestly, Jon, I think this is for the best.

Please burn that wig.

Cable: recharged is the character’s first adventure in the Krakoa era since he was resurrected as a gray-haired old man and sent his teenage self back to the future. The relatively self-contained one-shot celebrates and fondly pokes fun at classic ’90s Cable stories and doesn’t miss a single opportunity for puns like the one above. It’s kind of rules.

Image: Robert Venditti, Wilfredo Torres / DC Comics

We have a full review of Superman 78 # 1 for you, but I would like to celebrate how Wilfredo Torres nails the tightrope of drawing the likeness of real actors in a comic in such a way that they are completely recognizable, yet stylized enough not to. fall into the haunting valley.

Echolands is a new series of Batwoman (2011) by JH Williams III and W. Haden Blackman, and you may be wondering why this double page is so long. Well every number of Echolands It is the same size and proportion of a regular comic, but the fold is in the little end of the book, not the long one, creating these huge horizontal spaces for Williams to fill with his painstakingly detailed art.

Image: Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo / DC Comics

I am a simple Batman fan. I did a whole plot on Alfred leaving his surprisingly large fortune in well-invested back wages to Dick Grayson after his death, and Dick turning over and dumping the millions into a nonprofit called the Alfred Pennyworth Foundation, and I put it in the summary. It also gives me a big, warm, fuzzy feeling.

Elena Casagrande is very good at producing double page battle scenes in Black widow which is not even noticeable when it happens at this point. Except for this page with over 60 (!!!) panels! My God!