{"id":11610,"date":"2017-12-17T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2017-12-17T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:15:50","slug":"superman-earth-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/superman-earth-one-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: Earth One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;They&#8217;ll <strong>need<\/strong> to see your face so they can see there&#8217;s no evil in it&#8230; to see the gentleness and decency in you&#8230; and know that they have nothing to fear.&#8221; &#8212; Martha Kent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Superman: Earth One<\/strong> (3 volumes) by J. Michael Straczynski, Shane Davis &amp; others, published in 2010-15<\/p>\n<p>Clark Kent has decided to do something with his life to make him happy &#8212; he&#8217;s just not sure what that is. Then an alien armada comes to Earth led by Tyrell. Clark knows he must reveal himself because he&#8217;s the only one who can stop them. Tyrell reveals that Krypton was destroyed on purpose, in a deal his people made with an unknown party.<\/p>\n<p>What if <strong>Superman<\/strong> had been created in the 21st century? It might look something like this. It starts when he moves to Metropolis as a young man, with flashbacks to when he was a child and when he arrived on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Lois Lane and Jim Olsen are terrific characters here &#8212; willing to do anything for the story, to tell the truth. Lisa, Clark&#8217;s next door neighbour, is another great character.<\/p>\n<p>This is a superb story, and I like the artwork quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/superman-earth-one\/\">1st 2 volumes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;They&#8217;ll need to see your face so they can see there&#8217;s no evil in it&#8230; to see the gentleness and decency in you&#8230; and know that they have nothing to fear.&#8221; &#8212; Martha Kent Superman: Earth One (3 volumes) by J. Michael Straczynski, Shane Davis &amp; others, published in 2010-15 Clark Kent has decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,56,5,93],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-graphic-novels","tag-review","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}