Superman: Bizarro's World

Rating:
Summary: Nice to read, but not what I and other readers would expect
Review: The plot: Lex Luthor II is dying because of some clone deseases, and he desides to create another superman clone and put his mind on it. The clone obviously ends up a bizarro, escapes luthor and things happen. He tries to re-create his world (in an abandoned warehouse, not like in the 38's Superman), with Lois in it.

The story is nice to read, but it's most definitely not what I would have expected when I saw the title. The excuse to re-create Bizarro was stupid. Bizarro's World wasn't another misformed planet, but some sort of old warehouse. Plus, it's a 5-issues story when it could have been a lot less, they just made it bigger to sell more.

Anyway, it's not boring. I would just read something better, like "Erradication!".

Rating:
Summary: What A Backward Planet This Must Be
Review: Those responsible for writing the Superman comics in the 90's, loved to create these multi-part stories, that played out through all of the Man Of Steel's books. Some, like Death of Superman, worked very well. While, The Trial Of Superman, all but falls flat. The five part Bizarro's World, comes in somewhere on the lower end of those two examples mentioned.

THE STORY: Superman's long time adversary, Lex Luthor, used his great wealth and had himself cloned, in the event of his death. Now his clone, known as Lex Luthor II, is himself dying from a degenerative disease. In an effort to save himself, the clone decides to recreate Bizarro, a backwards version of our hero, who has an immunity to the ailment, thus Luthor II can be saved. Problems arise when Bizarro decides to turn our world upside down, into his own "unique vision" The real Superman must step in, to set things right, before it's too late. As much as I have always enjoyed the humor/novelety of the Bizarro concept, it works best in small doses, not spread out over 5 parts--a two parter max--that's it. I got bored halfway through with this story and had to struggle to reach the end. Bizarro gets old fast.

THE ART: The book's art is mixed. Some good Some bad. But that's to be expected when you have mutiple artists working on one story. The team of Penciller Jackson Guice and Inker Denis Rodier rises to the top with their crisp style.

The 126 page book features a gallery of the single issue covers from the original news stand version and an introduction written by the editor of this graphic novel, Bob Kahan. I would skip this one though and read some other Superman stories instead.