While he is already busy with many missions to save the Earth, Superman must go in search of a kidnapped girl. This orphan, a fan of the hero, is waiting for his help. In this title published by Urban comics, the hero wonders if he has the right to leave the earth unprotected to save a little girl.
No 35 hours for Superman
The life of a superhero is far from a sinecure. Overwhelmed, Superman manages planetary problems – the fight against an invasion of dinosaurs, a meteorite that threatens to crash on earth – while investigating this disappearance. Superman is here a detective looking for clues to help a fan. The publishers chose screenwriter Tom King. The latter proved to be very strong on short series by injecting depth into characters left out (Vision at Marvel, Mister Miracle at DC). He is associated with cartoonist Andy Kubert. Behind this succession of scenes, we discover Kubert's immense talent demonstrating that he is able to draw everything. The reader feels that the cartoonist is having a blast: a whole episode in full page for the race between Flash and Superman. The cartoonist confronts the representation of the Second World War after his father, Joe Kubert, reference of comics including war comics.
The Space Tour and DC Comics
Very quickly, the Man of Steel discovers that the girl is in space. During his research, Superman finds himself in very diverse situations. For example, he does a boxing match with the best mercenary in space. Each stage aims to show all the limitations of Superman. Far from Earth, he wants to reach Loïs by phone but a grotesque bureaucracy slows him down. The hero in love imagines the worst. These tests show strength. Even in a coma, his example pushes others to surpass themselves. On this trip, he will meet other outstanding heroes of the DC Universe. The fan will spot the allusions to DC artists: the orphan disappeared near Conway Street East. But also private jokes: Loïs says that his brand image is to fall from a building as in his films. However, the link between the episodes is not always obvious because the adventures go in all directions. Given the project to introduce DC comics to a young readership, we fly a little over these moments. We read a series of proposals that deserved to be developed on more pages. In this minor account compared to the other works of Tom King, we remain very interested in the quest of this eternal idealist to save an innocent woman. Each stage of the investigation is an opportunity for moral encounters or competitions with other superheroes. It is also an opportunity for cartoonist Andy Kubert to fully question himself in front of his father or in front of himself. Urban Comics adds the first story written about the character by the same writer in Action Comics 1000 and drawn by Clay Mann.