Krypto #195: Magical Smallville's Krypto

From: Superboy vol.4 #8-11 (August to October 2011)

Jeff Lemire's idea of Smallville was to make it a weirdness magnet, a place where alien cradles my deliver babies or puppies, where mad genius might be born, and where undead from the frontier days have an underground Superboy farm. Just the fact that Krypto lives there should be enough. Some highlights:

Krypto sniffing Parasite frogs.
Fighting a Phantom Stranger impostor.
And winning the day by ripping a magic computer to shreds.
It's really too bad the series then had to come to a close, because I would have loved to see what would have come next. Is there no end to your crimes, New52?!

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Anonymous said…
Yeah, one thing the nu52 really got wrong was reversing all the good development that had gone into Superboy. And the Lemire run was a treat.

The nu52 had so much potential; its biggest sin was making all sorts of cynical, stupid, poorly-thought-out decisions. There were some bright points in the nu52 -- the Azzarello run on "Wonder Woman" springs immediately to mind -- but for every Azzarello Wonder Woman there was a Krul Green Arrow, or a Nocenti Green Arrow, or a Percy Green Arrow. Putting Lobdell on "Superboy" was a death sentence.
September 22, 2019 at 6:29 AM
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