DC Comics Has Updates for the Confused or Disgruntled Superman Reader
Editorial comment followed by DC’s announcement.
The 2007 batch of Superman books have been a little haphazard. It seems as though DC has placed monthly schedule ahead of story continuity, and so readers have come down with a case of Storyus Interuptus (if I may be allowed to get a little Wile E. Coyote on you). If the creative team was late, DC editors had fill-in stories published instead of making the books late.
This has been carried through in the Batman books and in Wonder Woman. Those of us that have been reading comics for decades will remember the “fill-in issue”, but that concept disappeared to be replaced by the “late book”. Usually the perpetrators were the superstar artists like the fellows who started Image Comics. These days it is mostly the creators that have been lured over from Hollywood (think Kevin Smith and the Lost creator who never came up with the end of Ultimate Wolverine/Hulk).
Now it seems that DC is trying to get it together to present stories without interruption in Superman by changing some things around to publish a continuing story without interruption.
Check out the following announcement from DC Comics:
Several issues of SUPERMAN and SUPERMAN ANNUAL #13 have changed contents as detailed below.
SUPERMAN #668 now will feature the story slotted to appear in SUPERMAN #669. In this issue, written by Kurt Busiek with art by Rick Leonardi and Dan Green, the new 3-part story “The Third Kryptonian” gets under way. A year ago, Superman learned of another Kryptonian on Earth. Now the hunt goes into overdrive, as the Metropolis Marvel and the Dark Knight Detective’s search takes them from China to Gotham City to California and more. Plus, important developments for Superman’s foster-son Chris Kent, who also gets to meet Robin the Boy Wonder!
SUPERMAN #668 is scheduled to arrive on October 10.
SUPERMAN #669 now will feature the story solicited to appear in SUPERMAN #670. In this issue, written by Kurt Busiek with art by Rick Leonardi and Dan Green, secrets of Krypton’s past are revealed in “The Third Kryptonian” Part 2 of 3, as survivors and enemies come fast and furious in a centuries-spanning story of interstellar adventure and survival. But someone’s stalking the third Kryptonian…and now he’s after Superman, too!SUPERMAN #669 is scheduled to arrive on October 24.
SUPERMAN #670 now will feature a story solicited to run in SUPERMAN ANNUAL #13. In this issue, written by Kurt Busiek with art by Rick Leonardi and Dan Green, it’s the slam-bang, no-holds barred conclusion of the 3-part story “The Third Kryptonian,” as the entire Superman family — Superman, Supergirl, Power Girl, Krypto, Chris Kent and even Batman — makes a desperate last stand against a deadly threat to every Kryptonian in the universe!
SUPERMAN #670 is scheduled to arrive on November 7. This issue will have 48 pages.
SUPERMAN ANNUAL #13 now will feature a lead story written by Kurt Busiek with art and cover by Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino. The big-action finale to the “Camelot Falls” epic! It’s Kryptonian versus magic, in an all-out confrontation between Superman and Arion, beneath the Atlantic. But how does Superman battle a sorcerer? And what does it mean for the fate of the world? The answers involve tidal waves, shipwrecks, secrets, revelations, New Gods, monsters, a walk through time with the Phantom Stranger and the truth about Khyber. Don’t miss the climactic chapter of a story that will have repercussions for Superman and his world for years to come.
In the backup story, written by Busiek with art by Renato Guedes and Wilson Magalhaes, the Superman family — including The Man of Steel, Lois Lane, Chris Kent, Jonathan and Martha Kent and others, are reunited for what may be the last time.
SUPERMAN ANNUAL #13 is scheduled to arrive on November 28.
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