I feel like Lobdell’s approach to Superboy is to fling as much senseless garbage at the reader as possible and how they ignore the lack of story. Or the endless comparisons to Marvel’s Ultimate Universe.
N.O.W.H.E.R.E.?
Really? DC really went to Warner Bros. and sold them on doing a knock-off Ultimate Universe, complete with stand-ins for SHIELD? Did they tell the Warner suits they’d be able to have movies with it too?
Superboy is crap, but it’s not even exciting crap. Oh, there’s Lobdell writing a “strong” female character, but it’s just bad, but amusing. I guess it’s sort of funny how he’s got Superboy thinking in all sorts of twenty-first century colloquialisms and none of it makes sense unless Superboy watched sitcoms… but, again, so what?
It’s crap.
But the art isn’t terrible, even though the content is boring. Silva occasionally even tries some innovative compositions.
While I found #1 to be a decent first issue, this one took all the goodwill away. Superboy himself went through such a personality change I was more repelled by the character than interested in him. The stock characters fell further into stock characterdom, and now I’ll take a pass on #3.