ogd5XOt reviewed Voices from Krypton by Mark Waid
For Superfans Only
2 stars
This book feels like it was written for people that spend a lot of time arguing about Superman on the Internet. There's a ton of great info in here, but it's uneven and really could have used some editing.
As an example of the unevenness: There's a full chapter on "Superman Lives", a Tim Burton movie which was never made, and about twenty pages spent on the Synderverse, three films which were actually made. About 1/3 of the writing on the Snyder films cover how people on the Internet didn't like the movies.
A lot of the coverage is disjoint and can make details difficult to follow. There's significant time spent on "Smallville" (which is fair, as the show was on for a decade), but unless you've actually seen "Smallville", you're going to have a hard time tracking what people are talking about.
There are a lot of quotes stuck …
This book feels like it was written for people that spend a lot of time arguing about Superman on the Internet. There's a ton of great info in here, but it's uneven and really could have used some editing.
As an example of the unevenness: There's a full chapter on "Superman Lives", a Tim Burton movie which was never made, and about twenty pages spent on the Synderverse, three films which were actually made. About 1/3 of the writing on the Snyder films cover how people on the Internet didn't like the movies.
A lot of the coverage is disjoint and can make details difficult to follow. There's significant time spent on "Smallville" (which is fair, as the show was on for a decade), but unless you've actually seen "Smallville", you're going to have a hard time tracking what people are talking about.
There are a lot of quotes stuck into the text that don't relate to the broader thread, like someone was nice enough to give the author an interview, so he felt obligated to get their content in somewhere. Much of the artistic context is provided by someone who has a podcast who saw the relevant material one time.
Grammar errors, punctuation mistakes, word usage that's clearly a transcription error... it's just kind of a mess. Not worth the massive length.