Hello, my darling readers!
With Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt de la Pena I reached the end of the DC Icons books. After the last two books were a bit of letdown, I hoped this one might save my opinion on the series. Let’s see how it turned out!
The Plot:
Clark Kent is discovering more of his stranger powers that don’t seem to be from this world. While he’s trying to adjust and balance that with his life as a regular teenager, he might uncover some dark stuff that’s going on in his hometown…
The Rating:
Well, Superman didn’t save the day here.
There are a few issues I have with this book, but the biggest one is how the story is spread out.
It’s a little over 200 pages long and almost nothing happens for almost 90 pages. So all the main showdowns, resolves and epilogues are squeezed in the final 20 or so pages. I got rather bored because even the setup of the story is not too exciting. There isn’t much going on either and ultimately many questions remain unanswered.
When it comes to logic, Superman is doing a little better than, for example, the Batman book. However, there are still a few irritating moments, especially with the fight scenes, where I had trouble figuring out what de la Pena was actually describing.
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