>"Lost again in the jagged jigsaw of time gone awry..."
>>151757487Wasn't there a DC girl superheroine whose power was that she had several magical paints that gave her different powers?
>>151757550Wouldn't the husband be the flora because it does all the seeding and then the fauna puts the seeds in its belly?
And that's it.
After having storytimed all 5 issues of this series and enjoying it a lot I don't think it stuck the landing. To me this was a story about Superman belatedly growing up but then it ends with him as a literal baby again at the end (and his girlfriend is his mom...)
>>151758233Yeah is a pretty weird ending, there is the implication that batman is working on the cure, but it's a weird spot to left your MC on.I enjoyed it and I really liked purple K parts, but now I see that, like batman, superman has a Lex Luthor peoblem.
>>151757544Primer, dont bring her up because it'll cause shitposters to go into an autistic seizure.
>>151757487Superman, they're not supposed to bleed when you finger them.Go easy, damn.
>>151757487Go to bed with itchy bum, wake up with smelly finger.
Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #5 Cover B Juan Ferreyra VariantSuperman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #5 Cover C Alex Eckman-Lawn Variantreally cool cover.
This art was really bad
yeah its a weird ending out of left field
>>151757834Okay while this whole technobabble thing is annoying, seeing Kryptonite do physical effects on Superman is an interesting idea.
>>151757679dammit luthorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCtMWXEbojE
>>151758805That Superman is swiped from old Garcia Lopez art
>>151757487Does Pride Kryptonite give superman aids?
>>151757749>they kept Pink turning him gayAlright, that got a chuckle out of me.
>>151759250It explicitly doesn't turn him gay, they're making fun of it.
>>151757815>soup d'jor-elraison d'etre
>>151757487>>151758067This was genuinely fucking awful
>>151758233It reminds me a bit of the ending of Superman: Lost, where it seemed like it seemed like the story was going somewhere only for a weird happy end to come out of nowhere in the last few pages.
>>151757913The Ellisons aren't going to be happy about this one.
>>151757797Flora produces large gametes like females. Fauna produce small gametes like males.
this sucked
>>151758067I have prompted enough slop to AI writers to tell with certainty that this comic had the dialogue done with AI.
>>151757749Nice of the writer to borrow PAD right here
>>151757487Gummy worm fingers
>>151758067Well, at least it was better than Batman Fortress.
>>151757487>it apprears that kryptonian version of "one in the pink one in a stink" is a bit more complicated than ours
bump
Lois looking like a hooker with severe drug abuse issues is still weird
>Art looks like fetish porn>Story ends like fetish porn
>>151759632>>151762147you say that about everything
>>151758031Wtf
>>151758864Maybe intentional but have to agree.>>151758873Seriously. Can somebody ellucidate yet?
So it's bad then?
>>151758233It definitely succeeded on being weird and experimental, but yeah, this ending really doesn't work outside of that.
>>151766393That seems to be the general opinion.
>>151764251Yeah well say it's 12 o clock enough times eventually you get it right. This was dreadful.
>>151757487>cover art caught my attention>title drew me into the thread>read the first page>artstyle is familiar>scroll up to title to see artist's name>"From the team behind Ice Cream Man"Oh neat. I'll go read the other issues then come back here.
Thanks OPWhat an ugly comic
>>151767921Reading through issue #1 now, and yeah I'll admit that seeing DC characters in Morazzo/O'Halloran's style is pretty jarring. Really makes you conscious of how every guy looks like the twilight zone episode Eye of the Beholder.Prince's writing is also at its usual level of irreverent self-awareness, which works for how ICM is a deconstruction comic masquerading as Tales from the Crypt or when Luthor is dressing down his subordinate, but feels awkward when Batman pulls the autism out of his toolbelt to explain to Clark how he can already tell what he's gonna ask. "That glottal drop, a slightly higher pitch to your speech patterns." For anyone not used to his style, it's an immediate turnoff.But I'm willing to work past all this to see if the actual Narrative is interesting, which since these are new Kryptonite colors it better be.
>>151768045Purple K's time dilation is really well executed, how the effect gradually intensifies until we get panels situated out of order to reflect Clark's perceptions of events. It also provides some fun little previews of upcoming issues (unless that "HOME HURTS YOU!" panel is a reference back to an older story that I haven't read).It's a shame opening this thread has spoiled me on Lex's secret project, the Man Of Kryptonite in his MOK vault, but I probably could've guessed anyhow.Onto issue 2.
>>151768141Oh god damn it, it's a lucky thing I went back to the page to get something because otherwise I would've missed this 2-page spread which didn't load properly. I fucking hate my shitty wifi.
>>151768200The Blue & Speckled Kryptonite being molecularly mirrored (or Chiral, the word is Chiral you hacks) is a very convenient occurence, but Supes just showing up downtown to assuage people of his massive size is some Silver age schlock I can get behind. It even opens up in medias res like a lot of those stories would, retracing the path back to the climax. The conclusion of him fucking DRINKING the colossus made from radioactive waste is hilarious.
>>151768350The Toyman redesign in issue 3 pissed me off until they explained that the plan he and Sivana have cooked up together is an Amusement Park of Anguish, so he's dressed up like a mascot. Retreading the origin story via Superboy's therapy sketches is a bit bland (especially the inclusion of Brainiac as the driving force rather than the Kryptonian's own exploitation of their environment, which is a retcon I personally despise), but the recurring theme of "Home Hurts" for this issue is good. I guess the panel from issue 1 was a flashforward. The reveal of Rainbow Kryptonite's true nature coming in the middle of the issue was also good for the pacing, and I always love a good Mxyzptlk story.
>>151768459I may have sold Price a little short earlier when I was mocking his inability to handle the mundane, because the poetic prose present in the procession of Clark's unconscious cavorting is right in his wheelhouse. The cuts back and forth between the insanity of the 5th Dimension and the grand reveal of Luthor's plot should be whiplash, but since (as mentioned earlie) Prince's style works so well with Lex's boastful nature it all flows together fine. Same goes for how he writes Dr. Fate, which reminds me of Dr. Orpheus from Venture Bros this time around.Kal-Elf is a bit too obnoxious, compared to the endearing charms of an over-eager fan like Bat-Mite, but hopefully if someone every does revisit the character later on he'll be written a bit better.From all the repetition on the number 5, I should've guessed this issue would be the last. I'm also guessing now that since Luthor didn't know the Rainbow K was fake, that'll somehow be his undoing. Unless it's just completely inert and Clark beats it some other way.
>>151757704>>151757730Bringing the uncanny effigy is a lame gag.>>151759263Yeah, but it's good-natured ribbing of past writers' gimmickry.>>151757790The amount of setup necessary for panel 2's gag makes it even funnier.>>151757802Yeah inert, just like I guessed. But of course Kal-Elf shows up again.>>151757864>[Highbrow poem or something]Heh>>151757955>Fifth diseaseHuh, it's real. Never heard of it before either. The photo of a kid they use for the wikipedia article looks funny.>>151757998It kind surprises me that I haven't encountered a story where Bruce has any robots to assist him before. Seems like the kind of thing he'd be able to whip up easily. Lighten the workload for Alfred, give the Batcomputer some kind of mainframe intelligence. I don't think they ever even did it for the '66 show, maybe they were specifically avoiding it.>>151758031What a very odd way to end it. Like yeah, Lois wanted kids and also to not have to deal with Clark constantly putting himself in harm's way if she was ever gonna have any with him, but I don't think she'd be so eager to take care of him like this right after they break up, whether or not it blends with the central themes of the story. Ice Cream Man has always been kinda hit or miss like this, but I think the only issue of it to be THIS baffling was the Pro-Choice Christmas Special. What a wet fart.>>151765387Fifth Disease is affecting Superman's Kryptonian physiology in the inverse to how humans face it (an ephemeral illness of youth vs a fatal blow in old age) so Batman uses the Speckled K plus Chemo combination to age Clark down to infancy to help his antigens combat it properly. This is the material component, the theming is just "Home Is Where The Heart Is" and how it's thanks to all Clark's friends on Earth that he has any home to speak of, since he never truly knew Krypton. Like I said already, it's lackluster.
>>151757849>>151757864>>151757874Oh yeah, I also don't understand how just retelling the story of Krypton's demise managed to defeat the Kryptonite Man. Is it something to do with Luthor getting encased in Poppies (obvious reference to Wizard of Oz they decided not to namedrop, can't tell if that's constraint or them not picking up on the connection) and lulled to a 5D sleep where his imagination's influence on his clone's body resonated through Kal-Elf to destroy it in the material plane? Literal dream logic explained via Doylist dream logic, first time for everything.
>>151757544>>151758666Good times
>>151757802Couldn't not.
I think it's an analogy to the WB hostile takingover. Superman dissected by things that shouldn't exist, which could be defeated by Superman itself. But after that it's our job to fix him and build our world back. Detective finds the clue for cure:bring him back to his home, which we'll build together this time.
This wwaaAAAAacky silver age throwback self aware meta shit has long since lost the novelty. This shit is trying so hard that it comes off as bland, unoriginal and boring.
>>151768773> I also don't understand how just retelling the story of Krypton's demise managed to defeat the Kryptonite Man.The kryptonite man represents Krypton like Luthor says here >>151757550 so Kal-Elf used 5d story magic to make him explode like the planet did.
This is an Elseworlds story but it is inferred and offputtingly never explicitly stated, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kls1GCxOkM
>>151770470
