Writer : Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Artists: Mikel Janín, Scott Godlewski
My only previous experience with Johnson was The Last God, which I had only sampled with one issue, which I found impenetrable, so I had no idea what to expect from this.
So you might say this was the biggest surprise (other than my pick for second best of Future State!), because I thought it was brilliant!
Johnson takes a truly mythic approach to Superman, both in the woman who hero worships him at a human level and the task Superman himself has on Warworld.
What made it so amazing for me was that it turned out to be the very unlikely spiritual sequel to Tom King’s Superman: Up in the Sky, the story originally serialized in the pages of the Walmart Superman giants, which immediately became one of my favorite King comics, and Superman comics in general.
Most writers get caught up in Superman going about his everyday heroics, or try to scale him back, and yet Johnson, like King, is somehow capable of doing both.
It doesn’t hurt this comic’s standing, and legacy, to have subsequently enjoyed the early issues of Johnson’s Infinite Frontier Superman ongoing adventures.
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