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       Superman: For Tomorrow - Jim Lee & Brian  Azzarello (2013)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 15, 2013, 12:28 pm
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       The original run of this came out back in 2004 I believe, but I
       wasn't into comics by then and haven't really been back in the
       world of comics since the heyday of Image Comics. So I have
       slowly been hitting Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels of some
       of the things that I missed out on all together and one of them
       was Superman: For Tomorrow. Having just read it, I wish I could
       go back in time and keep this as one that I should never read.
       To say this was and is underwhelming wouldn't do it justice. The
       writing and more specifically the story is lame. It's beyond
       boring. I don't know if the "prelude" to the Vanishing took
       place prior to the 12 part story arc of Superman: For Tomorrow,
       but we are literally dropped into an event that has already
       taken place. If there wasn't a prelude prior to this, I think
       this was a huge misfire on the part of Azzarello as a writer,
       especially if he is going to bog down a story that we have to
       figure out with tons of exposition that is just lifeless. I
       plowed through this as fast as I could because I wanted it to
       end. It's beyond boring. That's all I can think of right now.
       Wasted time.
       So, there is Jim Lee's pencils, that's gotta count for
       something, right?. Yes and no. Yes, his art is always fantastic
       to look at and will always "save" a book from being totally
       useless. But, his pencils here is not nearly as good or epic as
       seen in Batman Hush. They can't compare. His run on Hush is like
       the bar that he will always have to measure up to now and his
       run on Superman: For Tomorrow just doesn't get there. Only pick
       up this book if you are a Jim Lee fanboy, otherwise, this is a
       Skip.
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