Superman Batman
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Graphic Novel Summary: Written by Jeph Loeb Art and cover by Ed McGuinness, Dexter Vines and Tim Sale Cover by Ed McGuiness and Dexter Vines DC Comics is pleased to offer a special new edition of the classic trade paperback collecting SUPERMAN/BATMAN #1-6 to coincide with the Fall 2009 WHV direct-to-DVD DC Universe Animated Original movie, featuring the same logo as the movie packaging. Advance-solicited; on sale October 28 • 176 pg, FC, $14.99 US
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| Author: | Jeph Loeb |
| Artist: | Ed McGuinness |
| Cover Artist: | Ed McGuinness |
| Artist: | Dexter Vines |
| Cover Artist: | Dexter Vines |
| Artist: | Various |
| Cover Artist: | Ed Mc Guinnes | In Stock? | Not currently available |
| Genre: | Superhero |
| ISBN: | 1401202200 |
| Lists: | Essential Batman Trades - Part 3: The Crossovers |
Customer Reviews
If you like big, stupid superhero comics--the kind where explosions and tits matter far more than plot, characterization, or even comprehensibility--then Superman/Batman is the book for you.
This is especially true of Jeph Loeb's run as writer on the title, since that is his great gift to the sequential art form: He writes very big, very stupid superhero comics with many explosions and many tits. It's a tough job, but it must be done.
This first volume of Superman/Batman illustrates Loeb's gifts perfectly, and artist Ed McGuinness illustrates them perfectly too; his balloony, cartoonish style is ideally suited to the big and the stupid.
The plot is something involving Lex Luthor and Batman and Superman made into public enemies, literally, as in most wanted criminals in the nation. I don't remember. Cause that's the big thing about big, dumb superhero comics; you don't remember them. They will not stay in your brain. You can be the most anal apoplectic fanguy/girl on the planet; you can study and study hard, and pen Wikipedia entries, and correct your "peers" on whatever "message boards" you want.
Dumb comics leave your brain just as they found it, which is to say, they have no lasting impact whatsoever. Which is what makes them worthless, and what makes them great.
This is especially true of Jeph Loeb's run as writer on the title, since that is his great gift to the sequential art form: He writes very big, very stupid superhero comics with many explosions and many tits. It's a tough job, but it must be done.
This first volume of Superman/Batman illustrates Loeb's gifts perfectly, and artist Ed McGuinness illustrates them perfectly too; his balloony, cartoonish style is ideally suited to the big and the stupid.
The plot is something involving Lex Luthor and Batman and Superman made into public enemies, literally, as in most wanted criminals in the nation. I don't remember. Cause that's the big thing about big, dumb superhero comics; you don't remember them. They will not stay in your brain. You can be the most anal apoplectic fanguy/girl on the planet; you can study and study hard, and pen Wikipedia entries, and correct your "peers" on whatever "message boards" you want.
Dumb comics leave your brain just as they found it, which is to say, they have no lasting impact whatsoever. Which is what makes them worthless, and what makes them great.
2 pts.