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Lol who remembers the whole "bendis is coming" meme lol. Lord how those horrors have came true.
i remember the bendis coming meme oh lord i really wish those rumors didn't come true
Bro it's was ALL over on DC comics like they're were giving us a warning.
Cardiay Horton indeed it did feel like a warning ⚠️ but not just warning but also kinda a threat as well to us Superman fans who loved Superman and Lois as parents to there son Jon Kent superboy
@@TevyaSmolka Exactly man I drop Bendis Superman as soon as he ruined Superman lore by making this boring characters Rogal Zaar responsible for the destruction of Krypton
It was a rip off of the 70s DC "Kirby is coming" marketing campaign.
I had no interest in Superman until Rebirth and loved it. Jon was the best thing they did...then they aged him up. So many missed stories because Bendis wanted to tell "his" story.
Kelly I know right😒, and the fact we finally got the pre new52 Superman and pre new52 Lois Lane married and have a great child was a great development for all three characters, and now it’s till someone fixes it
@@xanderg.1070 wait, they weren't together i assume? i guess i missed that pat because i know him and diana started to become a thing, also, what's up with her not doing her duties as the goddess of war? ever since rebirth happened, everything just seem out of place and i hated that
May May yeah everything was planned to be settled with doomsday clock, but after Geoff left to do the tv and movie side of DC, things has been a lot shaky
Same. Bendis is one of those writers whose only goal is to leave a mark on whatever story he's writing.
Peter J. Tomasi should've stayed on Superman.
He didn't have a choice
@@revolutionarydragon1123 Benny did make some points. Bendis' work is a mix bag. Had he been given his own book instead of Superman, it would've been fine.
@@jaredgarcia8638 he did get his own original book it Naomi he got his cake and get to eat it to
@@revolutionarydragon1123 he should have just done that
@@jaredgarcia8638 i know but it bendis so he can do whatever he wants
Tomasi was doing some great natural progression for the character...Making him a father and a husband made him interesting and human.
What Bendis is doing is generic comic book stuff that can be reversed in the blink of an eye...JUst creat some drama, characters are one dimensional, and you are to tired of this stuff to care anymore...
Well said
@@Kindservant you'd rather let bad writers continue to screw things up
Does anybody else think they made a huge mistake by aging John up so quickly and not telling a bunch of stories with Jonathan Kent Superboy and Damian Wayne Robin and doing a whole Teen Titans run with them
Yes.
ShadowMatter not me I thought it was brilliant and needed to be done
1000% yes
I really like supersons they ruined it...😕
yes a million times yes they made a huge mistake of aging up Jon Kent this quickly
Benny, you might have ultimately said "no", but your tone and just about everything else in this video sounded like an emphatic "yes".
It sounds like he said who cares about Story, Character, and Continuity as long as the action is good! The overpowered god Superman is struggling, that makes up for all of the other dumb shit
8:44 a fight between connor and John, that better be a rumor because that's dumb
Ameri Wryter indeed it sounds really stupid and garbage
Yeah man... especially when Jon went into outer space with his deranged grandfather Jor-el, and Lois is absolutely fine with it, then it's never explained how Jor-el escaped Doctor Manhattan.
Wasn't Jor-el killed or something? I remember clearly he was the villian, so why on earth Lois let her son go with him.
It was actually explained
@@MrMack49 What was explained? His escape... Because it wasn't. They explained that he was controlled, but they never explained how escaped and even afterwards he still turned out to be a tyrant, he created Rogol Zarr, his character was totally ruined.
@@barbos1507 Yeah but Doctor Manhattan saved him before Krypton exploded.
@@MrMack49 it was strongly inferred it was Manhattan. But the staff was controlling him, that as far as I remember was never explained, and how he came back later to go to space with Jon and Lois was never explained that I recall. Then he suddenly goes from trying to save krypton throughout history to creating the monster that destroyed it is another problem
I’m super mad about him aging up Jon 😡 The Super Sons were one of my favorite super pairs!
Well I’m mad too, but Jon can’t stay a 12 year old forever
And then doing nothing with it instead of fully using Jon and Damian’s relationship to get some emotional payoff
I agree let Jon grow up and be a kid, and Connor can be the “older one”
To make it worse, i wont even argue about the sexuality aspect, but doing nothing with him interesting and expecting that alone to sell the book. The book is terrible and IM ITS TARGET AUDIENCE lol
for feel I remember when he did that it got me so tight.
If Geoff Johns stayed in his position he would've kept Bendis in check
If Geoff John's was still in charge he wouldn't give bendis superman at all......didio did that cos he is a sour old shit face who doesn't care about what the fans want and he basically wants dc to be like 80s marvel
From what I've heard, Geoff John's is the one who wanted him.
General Mosquito Spray no actually dan didio wanted him, he is the one who hired him.
Geoff johns got demoted because of the controversy in the dceu concerning Zack Snyder and Joss whedon
Short answer: Yes
Long Answer: Who didn't see this coming
All jokes aside the reason I don't like his storylines when he tried expanding on existing franchises like All new X-men and obviously Superman.
Kingdom Come Superman all new x men was really good
@@sweetexorcist7322 Thank you for sharing your opinion
That and the dude has a unhealthy obsession with kitty Pryde
@bingly bingler i agree his uncanny x-men run with cyclops acting more and more like magento was really awful and was the final nail in the coffin for me especially his awful crossover with battle of the atom which was really bad and really stupid.
bingly bingler Most of it to run on X-Men has a lot of Katie pride dating a persona of Bendis or literally a self insert usually a self insert
I used to read both Superman comics then he came in and I just had to stop he ruined him and John Kent
@Yerachmiel HaLevi rebirth was fantastic. Why would they drop it.
@Yerachmiel HaLevi aye, I'm done with superman completely. Aquaman is all I'm reading now. Wanted more Green lantern and don't like blue beetle in rebirth compared to the previous versions.
Also Batman Beyond is all I'm reading with Aquaman....that and far sector. I'm reading more marvel now.
I still don’t get why DC even gave him both Action comics and Superman. What’s the point of having two different books for the same character if they’re also being written by the same person?
I think its a Bendis demand at this point. I think when he was writing avengers he had both books as well. Same thing after avx and he took over both xbooks.
Because Bendis doesn't play well with others. Look at how much he's ignoring things from JL.
Man people are saying that superman, Captain Planet,Silver Surfer and The Sentry Are boring because they’re so overpowered but let me just say that they have more character development if written properly
That's true but no one but a few people can do it right
@@kylarh4425
Agreed.
Same people at looking at what they can do but not who they are. It's not really fair to say you don't like someone because their op when their not portrayed that way in their stories. How many times has Superman met his match or put into a situation that requires more than just power? I feel like benny missed those stories and no Offense to him of course but you're going to think someone is boring if all you hear is what he can do
Michael Brent agreed and you’re right about that
Silver surfer is boring? I'mma take offense there
So basically he "subverted expectations" without a care about characterization and continuity. Sounds about right.
He also doesn't care about good writing
Sounds like Rian Johnson.
Seathify having recently watched knives out, I think it was probably more Disney’s fault
@@alexk8083 That's a good point. Last Jedi is the only movie by him that I don't like. I think if he was given a spinoff movie things would've turned out better.
Seathify probably. I know a lot of people don’t really like what JJ Abrams did but I imagine if he’d directed all 3 movies in the sequel trilogy, things like the continuity and pacing and whatnot would’ve been a lot better
YES!!!!!!!! Dropped Superman and Action Comics because of him. All the great storytelling that Peter Tomasi and Dan Jurgens did was ruined
I personally believe bendis has broken Superman and ruined my favorite Superman family with Clark Lois and Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy as his little 10 year old self being a family and having fun as a family also Jon Kent superboy was also being his friends with Damian Wayne robin and gave me my favorite team super sons and to see that all I gone is depressing and sad 😢.
Well the stories will get rebooted and you will get superman back
@@sonicathehedgehog7488 honestly at this point i think a reboot will happen with this upcoming crisis but i have a really bad feeling that these stories won't be retcon away unless bendis leaves but i don't want to wait for another reboot to get my superman and my boy Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy back to his little 10 year old self that's going to be forever and frankly i don't trust the higher ups at DC to give me my boy back alive and kicking.
@@TevyaSmolka true
Wave Storm indeed this sucks
Dude literally walked into the most interesting Superman in nearly a decade, took everything that made him interesting, and promptly threw it out the closest window.
Short answer, Yes. BMB is a bad writer, he can tell good one-off stories but shows no ability to function within existing cannons.
2019: a confusing time to be a comic-book fan.
Tom King ending his run on Batman on a low-note
BMB coming over to disappoint fans with his take on Superman
Sony and Disney fighting over custody over Spider-Man
My girl Gwenpool making a comeback only for her new series to enrage and confuse her fanbase
The only thing that made sense this year was the introduction of a fifth turtle in TMNT! Leave it to IDW to avoid all the drama Marvel and DC get involved with.
If you want a comic that is only slightly confusing then I recommend Red Hood Outlaw. The new issue basically involve him teaching kids how to be villains and its actually pretty heartwarming. Yeah it loosely ties in with Year Of The Villain but ehh, who cares
Add that Doomsday Clock finally wrapped up spectacularly but only to be ultimately disowned by stupid DC... I wonder if Alan Moore liked it? I have no doubt he got advance copies and chatted with Johns and Frank, too.
Brandon Romero Red hood outlaw is ok I just wish someone else was writing the book instead of Scott lobdell since his writing always feels mediocre
Deathstroke's new run was good tho
Power Rangers kept solid through and is on a very good arc at present
I lost faith in his run when he aged up John for no reason and basically prevented any future Supersons run
Bendis?
Brian Michael Bendis?
The writer?
Writer Bendis?
Oh I get it
Really, this Bendis
The one that writes like this?
Now I know, thank you.
Bendis.
Tv Tropes wrote a bit just like that when discussing his signature style. XD
God you've succinctly summed up his entire 50-year-life.
The more I read about Bendis and his work, the more I realize the dude works better in his own universe. Ultimate Spider-Man was fantastic... until Miles got to the main universe.
Reminds me of Zack Snyder
mostly because there was no prior continiuity or characterisation. he can't seem to not destroy them.
Yes, he at least ruined Jon
Ruins Jon, superman, lois, young justice
What a waste of potential for a stupid story
14:00 We weren’t all excited we were enjoying the hell out of it for the short time it was here.
Then Bendis came in and destroyed it all with awful characterization and terrible boring storylines, he didn’t start anything over he ruined what we had to make what he wanted and what he wanted is mediocre to bad.
Can we talk about that in the sideways annual, it was revealed that New 52 Superman was not dead but just in the Dark Multiverse. LIKE WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT
DC editors are joke for letting this through.
Fire Dan Didio
@@RyukinJakka didnt he play the penguin? 🍦🐧
@@RyukinJakka he should fire himself
@@thegenerousdegenerate9395 I see what you did there
They are infected.
The whole point of injustice is when you strip away Superman humanity benny lol. Not really the best example when you're saying he doesn't come off as human
Pretty much, especially with Doomsday Clock.
Yeah Superman is a character with great abilities but his real superpower is his humanity and morality.
Yes Bendis did ruin it and Morrison ruined Green Lantern for me as well. DC just had to give them those series.
Space Jesus GL does not even feel like Hal Jordan to me. This will hurt the book for years.
@@bwanabeast3169 yeah Green lantern is really confusing i have no idea what going on anymore.
The new "The Green lantern" is fantastic imo
@@b.l.8755 fair enough and i am glad you enjoyed grant morrison green lantern
@@TevyaSmolka what's wrong i haven't read it yet, can you tell me how it's bad? I don't want to waste my time reading a bad book
He made Lois iris from the flash show
We are the Flash
David Martinez when I saw that I cringed so hard
@@Tek-kv6jd 😂 that's up there with the top 10 worst dialogue ever written
David Martinez lol that line would never fly in the comics
OuterSol
comics iris :"wE ArE tHe FlA--"
comics flash: "which of us can use the speed force?"
Flash speeds out before she could finish the rest of her comment
Short answer yes and not just with the identity reveal either.
Hearing him age Jon, switch Lois 🤢🤮
BMB is the reason I started reading comics again with his run on Daredevil. But his writing style doesn't match the Superman books at all. Square peg meets round hole.
Chapelpluto I loved his DD run but damn it got depressing after awhile
@@thesuperiorspyderdan9470 yeah, it did. But watching a charecter like Matt get back up again time after time is why I loved his run on that book. But no one wants to read a depressing Superman though.
My biggest peeve with Bendis' Superman run isn't even the run itself, but rather it's effects on another series I adored. That series being Supersons, which was ended shortly after Bendis came on board with DC. While I'm not 100% certain about what caused Supersons to get axed, I don't think its a coincidence that Bendis promptly sent away Johnathan and aged him up shortly thereafter.
the problem is that the rebirth run clearly wasn't intended to end yet, they got bendis and booted Tomasi and Jurgens of the books before their story was finished.
“He’s closer to human than the superpowered guy that can look at you and light you on fire; thats like the whole plot of Injustice”
*ad randomly appears*: “It’s good to be transparent”
I think Bendis is ruining Lois lane
Straight up character assassination. Almost as bad as during her Sliver age era. Jerry and Joanne Siegel must be rolling in their graves.
*Non-Bendis Lois*: Was a caring and loving mother to Chris and Jon Kent despite initial hesitancy to be a parent.
*Bendis Lois*: Leaves son with a grandfather who despises humanity.
Despite all the crap she got, she always wanted a happily married normal life with Clark and was ready to even die for him, still learnt to respect they couldn't have it due to his constant duties. Bendis Lois just moved away and forgot all about that.
superman has always been one of my favorite heroes even as a kid
Shame what DC is doing with him nowadays :(
As someone who defended against people who were worried about Bendis jumping on DC comics,
I have to say, I hate Bendis’s run,
Yes Benny for the reasons you said, but I mean I don’t think it’s JUST because he destroyed what came before.
It’s that he destroyed what came before and the thing he replaced it with is just:”Meh” at best.
Tomasi’s Superman Rebirth got people excited, Bendis Superman on his best day objectively speaking at best just makes you go:”....hm.” (For me at least)
my answer exactly.
What's weighing Bendis down is his crutch at having to do some change (aged up Jon, Superman Reveal, New villains) that adds no substance, his excessive, immature, and wasteful dialogue and his general poor story telling..skipping what should be important events, his erratic slow pace on other scenes, and his ham fisting in of "his" stuff like Naomi, YJ, Legion, etc.
His main Superman books are really at this point just an advertisement for his stuff, leviathan, Naomi, YJ, Legion...
This man should not have the promotion he's been given. What the hell were they thinking? If they brought him in just for his connections, I raise my eyebrow at that too..a lot of those people I wouldn't trust to even clean my house, but perhaps I'm too harsh in that regard...
Did DC & Bendis Ruin Superman in 2019? YES
that's why i miss new 52, no joke
Yes, Bendis did.
Just like Tom King ruined Batman in 2019.
Dylan Tom King was the worst
Idk about that one. King did a great job on Batman in my opinion. Fans were just mad because they didn't get the outcome they wanted.
@@MrKhho100 no fans are mad because he's dragging out his story as if he doesn't have a plan.
@@MrKhho100 Go back and read the New 52 Batman run by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. That is what we call a Batman run.
Whats your opinion on tynions batman tho?
Superman n52: angest teenage
Superman Rebirth: responsible adult
Bendis Superman: midlife crisis husband that start to act like angest teenage
Every hero has the same reason for a secret identity, to protect those around them not to protect themselves. Bennis ruined superman and truly hasn't made any good comics in the last decade.
Superman: “I’m Clark Kent. Loved ones:dead.
Pretty much yeah. Preview art has already shown Mongul's gonna hit the Daily Planet soooooooo...way to go Clark.
My main problem with Bendis is that he seems to just blatantly disregard everything with that came before him just to do what he wants. Like he has very little respect for anyone else's work. I love Naomi and the story story he made introducing her, but when he has someone else's character and picking up after someone else's run, he seems to always mess shit up.
Case and Point Civil War 2. Seriously, if that story never happened, I guarantee Captain Marvel would not get all the hate she has, Hawkeye wouldn't have killed Bruce, Miles wouldn't have almost gotten arrested and so much other shit. All because Bendis wanted to stupid meaningless story that messed up everything. (That and the fact that Marvel had a movie called Civil War coming out and wanted a cash grab)
SuperSons was my favourite comic
Yes. Just look at John Kent
I mean yeah he killed superman. He killed the superman we had even more than the guy who killed the new 52 superman. Every character in the rebirth run stopped behaving like they did. We even saw the pinnacle of good parents (at least in comics) sending their son with an old man they didnt trust, thank god jon wasnt raped in his trip because then it would even be more difficult to oversee that he was tortured in a volcano for like 2 years by a villain version of his father in his 6 years of not seeing his family. Then when he came back after seeing what really should be compared to hell he just goes away again like if he didn’t have extreme ptsd
You didn’t ramble enough! You know how long I have been waiting for this! 😂
I really appreciate that you give context onto what has happened so far with characters in your videos. Cheers mate 🤙
Yh but 2019 in general wasn’t that great for DC compared to previous years
they will pull a SPIDERMAN and everyone will get mind wiped...this wont last.
hopefully
He definently ruined young justice
Every character in Young Justice sounds the same and it feels cringey
@@jgreen704 that sums up how he writes
OuterSol agreed young justice has just been destroyed
yes....the end.they fixed supes with rebirth,then dc let bendis ruin him again.
DC combined New 52 Superman and Pre New 52 Superman to form an all new charecter called Pre New 52 Superman.
The f*ck, really?
Chapelpluto it really was a good choice considering the mystery of the additional Clark Kent. It was more of like Superman red and Superman Blue coming together. Basically, the energy from Superman at the end of the new 52 made it back home to a person with the same DNA.
@@bwanabeast3169 this is more of a question than a comment. So are they saying that he has two different sets of memories or has he forgotten pre new 52 all the way around.
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp I was saying it looks like most of the combo comes from the pre New 52 Superman.
@@chapelpluto4484 oh, okay. I get ya
The problem (for me at least) isn't the changes it's how he sets things up. I think Bendis is a writer with good ideas in theory but he has no idea how to properly execute them or build up to them.
which is why i believe he should do new 52 superman, not family superman.
MrGummypanda I agree new 52 Superman would’ve worked better
@@TevyaSmolka i always say this but superman is a very difficult character to writer no matter which universal is it.
I talk to one of the commenter about bendis and he imply that it is very easy to bring super sons together, I pointed out to him that, Jon and Daimen were out of character.
Already i know he never read super sons or the rebirth.
Yes The answer is yes I knew Jon was doom as soon as they announced him as the writer
I miss Super sons with my boy Jonathan Samuel Kent Superboy and Damian Wayne Robin having fun adventures and going to school with Jon kent supeboy and hanging out with his friend Kathy and omen was tons of fun and to see all that gone is depressing and sad and it infuriates me that bendis took this great family and ruined everything for bullshit like rogol zar and the awful reinterpretation of Jor-el by having him not only escape dr Manhattan but still be a crazy lunatic who created rogol zar which also doesn't make any sense because by the end of the oz effect we saw him get recaptured by Dr Manhattan and taken away i assumed it was back to his own timeline not by what bendis and have him comeback because reasons which is bullshit. Also the way he wrote Lois lane and have her abandon her own 10 year old son Jon kent to a madman really doesn't make any sense whatsoever and garbage.
I appreciate you telling us your thoughts Benny
Superman was like my favorite dc series. It was so great with all the character driven story and the tone of it.
Getting into the the Bendis run has been so rough. 😭
Yeah Bendis completely trashed Superman
He messed up everything great about rebirth how could you make john grow up and not make more supersons
RIP superboy :(
Superman's one real weakness has always been a problem of striking a balance between a near omnipotent being and the quite normal beings he shares the planet with. Writers really have a fine line to walk between making him relatable or making him unapproachable and boring...
We know that good writers and smart editors can walk that fine line with ease.
BMB is a horrible writer. He tripped on the line
You should slap a Benny face over the KSI logo on that shaker.
I like KSI. I would rather buy a Benny shaker though.
Brian Michael Benis owes an apology to Peter Tomasi, Dan Jurgens and of course the fans.
Haven't read. Did enjoy Bendis run on New Avengers. Do you all recommend?
Are you going to be covering the new Jonathan Kent super boy run or not? Maybe please at least the first issue would be kind of nice so we kind of get an idea of what’s going on thank you krakkom
For some reason, Bendis likes to reveal everyone’s identity. He did it in Ultimate series, regular Marvel books, now Superman. I am not a fan of his at all. It was not good news for me when I heard he was coming to DC, except that it saved my Marvel comics from his writing. Guess Mephisto is going to have to come over to save Superman.
I'd love to see a similar video discussing/reviewing Tom "Bat-Cat" King's run from y'all
Being a fan of Tomasi's run and a die hard Superman fan ever since I was a baby.....I like his run and what's he's doing with DC so far. Come at me bro!!
Id argue that the worst thing about Bendis is the fact that hes looking to introduce his characters, ive lost count to how many characters he has introduced since he joined DC. This doesnt allow for the stories to flow naturally, im always trying to figure out who that person is or what might be important for. Its also hard for me to relate or care for those characters, they have no background and might never get one, because there are so many new ones, there is no way all of them are going to stick around
This podcast is on 🔥🔥🔥
That almost reminds me of the fact that we never got an official explanation (as far as I remember...) as to why and how Doctor Manhattan was able to overpower and trap a Fifth Dimensional imp like Mr. Mxyptlk.
Can we all talk about how the Leviathan event made no sense.
Your right and No, we cannot.
I didn't get Levithan at all. When the reveal happened I thought, there had to be a better option than this.
i agree Leviathan was terrible nobody liked that event it made no sense whatsoever
I jumped onto superman in bendis run, and I loved it, later on I read the earlier rebirth superman/action comics and I gotta say I preferred it for so many reasons, but I still enjoy elements of bendis run (except action comics) and I'm gonna Do my best to embrace the new stories for the parts I enjoy
He did screw over green lantern I mean really how does 11 year-old hack a fucking green lantern Ring. With their mothers laptop no special equipment just a freaking laptop
DC should depower Superman like John Byrne did in the mid eighties .
What does it matter at this point? They'll replace him soon anyway, and if comics survive long enough, he'll probably just reset to classic after that experiment bombs.
Can you do more Spawn issues on your Channel?
Totally agree regarding Lois, Jon, Rogol and Jor-El. I am ok however with Jon in the Legion, since that's really the only solution you can do now that he's aged up, although there were opportunities lost. Lois "leaving" Clark made no sense and only made things worse for their reputation. Jor-El's story as Oz was ignored but the ending to Jor-El's time on Earth was a good one, but didn't execute it right. As for Clark's secret identity, I'm still not sure. It's only been 1 issue so far, so I gotta see if there will be more coming. I will say this for sure...I miss Pat Gleason in Action Comics.
I was out around the start of Event Leviathan. I remember being like, "What? They're spies?"
RIP Super Sons
“The story I enjoy ended, so this is the new story.” Good point, but the thing is, Bendis robbed Jonathan Kent of years of story about him growing up. It is the equivalent of having one year of Dick Grayson as Robin, taking him away for 6 issues, and bringing him back from a 15 year old boy to a 20 year old being nightwing. Jonathan Kent growing up so fast feels forced rather than organic growth. If Bendis want Jon in the legion, fine, I actually like that idea, however I feel it could have been handled better. For starters, if Jon is going to stay in the future, don’t put him there until way later, like a couple of years, have him grow up normally as a teenager. When he eventually goes to the future, it will feel like a kid going to study abroad. As a student who studies abroad myself I can say that applying this premise to Superman’s family has a lot of potential. We get to explore how Clark and Lois miss their son and how Jon also feels homesick, how their relationship could change when Jon does come home for “vacation” If Jon grows up normally, we as readers will be more invested when he does go away because it feels like an actual part of life instead of being so forced like Bendis is doing right now. If Bendis really wants the legion now, seeing how in Doomsday Clock 12 the legion part of Geoff Johns’ Secret origin is back in cannon, Jon can simply do as Clark did and only go on weekends, we can see Jon paralleling Clark, see how Jon reacts to stuff in the future, we can even have Flashbacks when Clark was a kid because we never got to saw it in secret origin. We can even have Superman, now as an adult and dad, interacting when his childhood friends. There more ways to do this than Bendis is doing right now that would make fans happy.
Brilliant ideas, Lenny! I had and posted (above) some similar ideas, but yours are much more detailed and thoughtful!
@@debbys-abqnm4537 Superman is my favorite comic book superhero so I really want him to have good stories.
agreed and in fact i would've been all for my boy Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy being aged up normally like us and we could've followed his adventures like we were doing at the beginning during the Lois and Clark miniseries with Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy being his little 10 year old and learning how to control his powers and that miniseries lead up to rebirth which was fantastic and tons of fun and to see all that potential storyline now gone is sad and depressing
Why havent you done this run of superman and action comics and the leviathan event
I hate it when people say he isnt relatable, he has a human family, human friends, grew up human, he's closer to a very powerful human-kryptonian hypbrid than an over powered god
Dan Jurgens had the Lois and Clark return story with John. Quite fitting too since Jurgens was the main Superman guy in the early 90's Death of Era
Yes he ruined it for me. I never read superman ever. But I finally picked it up once I saw he had a son he was teaching. That dynamic was amazing. We got supersons out of that. Now everyone is split. Sorry I like bendis but I can't support his run. Sad fan :'(
A similar thing can be said about Jason Aaron and his work on Thor. As I was not a fan of his work on Thor.
Short answer: yes!
Hey they explained zaar backstory in supergirl 21-33. John and Damian are in the legion now.
Dan Jurgens’ Lois and Clark series was a perfect example of a good Superman series. Then Bendis came..... sigh why....
God it is werid seeing the man behind the voice.
Both marvel and dc seem to love destroy to many beloved characters
Not to say there were bad stories but I like good writing what bendis has done feels bland and poor setting up for payoffs that feel blah.
The only way to fix the Jonathan Kent age up is giving him siblings. I'm prepared to give the identity reveal a chance as there is usually a plan for this to lead somewhere bigger. It could give the character a chance to level up. But it also outs Clark's son as Superboy and his wife as his co-conspirator who also shares his professional conflict of interest.
Bendis ends his run is December.. yes yes yes
I still hate how Bendis aged up Jonathan Kent just so he can be in his Legion of superheroes run, cuz I really love him and Damian adventures in the Super Sons rebirth run. And I was really excited to seeing the two Superboys, Jonathan Kent and Conner Kent, to meet for the first time and seeing them have a brotherly relationship(cuz Bendis says he wants to see them fight, I really don’t want a battle between two Superboys just for the sake of having a battle). But unfortunately that’ll won’t be the case.Hopefully someone new writing Superman and Young Justice and retcon or fix it cause the biggest problem is that he too focused on what he was to do and doesn’t thinks about the stories he creates and ignore characters and settings that were being built up for rebirth. 😒😒
Thanks for your opinion Benny.
My thougths on Bendi's ''New age'' of Superman.
On Beneath Jhon:
-HE WAS A GREAT OPORTUNITY TO DRAFT AN EMERGENCY OR EVENT NEW SUPERMAN REBOOT. Yes, I like his kid adventures but I really get interested when Bruce made the research and say he could be even stronger than clark. If someday a world ending crisis came to DC Universe, in the reboot it would be a complete fresh oportunity to Jhon take the cape and become Superman, It would have to be done in slow pacing, in slow burn, but it could be done, Jhon could be a great Supes with new stories and different from his father, but carrying the legacy of the family. Even if happens now I don't believe it, EVERY YEAR Jhon grows like 5 from 10 years, at this point someday in 3 years he will be an oldman, there is an extreme narrative hole there.
-Jhon not only help Clark and Superman to have new roles, being Clark on the role of Pa' Kent, having that aspect of his life we could understand some reasons of supes eternal optimism and keep foward even in the most dire of the situations. But more than that, HE MADE DAMIAN A LIKEABLE CHARACTER, for years Damian's personality has been a cause of division between fans, he is an insuferable brat, on some fair reasons because his backstory, but he needed an extreme Yin to his Yang, that was Jhon to him. Bendis could bring back somekind of ''supersons'', but it won't be the same thing again, it was a messed thing and has few to nothing purpose.
-BOYZARRO AND ROBZARRO GONE, yeah those were Gleason/Tomasi's new characters and their arcs were complete fun, Boyzarro was also like Jhon but also in oposite ways and also had a great potential. Every panel of Robzarro it's pure gold, you didn't knew if actually he was the oposite of Damian, or actually was Robzarro was that kind of bizarro character, they deserved better, seriously. Bendis just don't have use for them on his stories, and I don't know if that was a good thing or bad, because ughhhh...!
-SERIOUSLY WHY CONNER COULDN'T BE ON YJ/LEGION? Because he was in those ones before and Jhon not? I sincerely think Conner would be better as a Big Brother ''thing'' as the youngster guy on adventure with the little brother around that on ''Who is best for the cape?'' Superboy thing, They already did that, and Prime won on raw power aspect.
-JHON BEING TORTURED BY ULTRAMAN AND SUPERWOMAN ON HIS GRAMP'S ''MISTIC'' TRAVEL, just...no --_ This was the result of Clark and Louis parenting on Bendis Run. Neat. -_-
On Beneath Clark:
-CLARK KENT IT'S NOT A WHITE LIE OF SUPERMAN, CLARK KENT IT'S THE SON OF JHONATAN AND MARTHA KENT. Pa' and Ma' Kent didn't grow Kal El, they didn't have the knowledge, or the beliefs to do that, Clark Kent it's the earth, mortal, normal, regular, nice kind of regular guy, that anchor to Superman to humanity. Most of the times Clark likes to be Superman and Superman Likes to be Clark, this is a thing taken from movies where most of the people start to criticize ''well if I were Superman I won't be that wimpy four eyes farmboyscout reporter''. Once upon a time, like even close to the 90's that was a Superman cliché, now we have all kinds of superguys with different personalities and motivations, most of them darker or grittier, so, you don't need to think that as a cliche or even a bad cliche, because now Superman can have that as his niche as superhero. So yeah, I think his secret identity revelation it's stupid.
-LOUIS AND CLARK RELATIONSHIP IS A MESS. We tought it was weird to see Superman/Wonder Woman, that's why it was rebooted, now we almost think those were good times, almost, if not were for those awesome stories of Rebirth (Seriously, Frank and his wife and Louis and his husband was an extreme, great example of how they were improved on the marriage).
-Superman doesn't care for his family, WOULD WE THINK HE CARES FOR THE WORLD? That's another problem, his reaction on Jhon's growing thing was dumb, he lost five years of his son's life and he was like ''meh'', he sees Louis running for stories on a predatory phase and he simple it's not there to express what he thinks about that, or that doesn't even matter.
-Finally, well, yeah, I think the best opening for Superman was on Rebirth where he goes to help everyone in the night and says good morning to Metropolis, you can start a movie with that panel, and on a personal thin, I like superman because he do absurd things like carrying a building on his back, or punching a guy with a finger, he does absurd things, writters think on him like a god between mortals or like a really absurd good guy, most of the time they think on him on the first one, and both lines on extreme are the death of the character.
I drop the book on Bendis run, its dumb, and loses more than he won on the long term.
Is there any street fighter videos on this channel?
Question what if catwoman got her own robin?
I feel like if you wanted break up Clark and Lois you need to do it in a way that’s believable and makes sense.
Catwoman's Robin... Kitten?
The answer is yes. Yes he did, I was reading Superman a non-stop. Then a while into bendis run I gave up on it. Dropped it which broke my heart. It was a drag.
the reason is that they missed out on a lot of learning opportunities with jon and great storylines, that could of been/ oh and when will you be covering the new supersons where damian looks ginger?
That should be the video name "Wait til he leaves"!!!!!!