Funny Book Round-Up

I have to give a quick shout-out #3 of the Superman: Secret Origin series, which I think came out two weeks ago, and it was wonderful. Writer Geoff Johns had worked with Richard Donner on his story arc for Superman a year or two ago, as I recall, and this was a wonderful "Earth 2" kind of rewrite of the first day in Metropolis from Superman: The Movie, hitting almost all the same notes but not quite exactly the same way. There's Superman, Lois and a helicopter at the end, but it's all designed to fit in with the current Superman continuity and approach to Supes and Lex Luthor. It's almost like what Superman: The Movie might be if Richard Donner was directing it today. And I like the artist as well. Gary Frank is nice and clean in a good John Byrne kind of a way, which reminds me that I'm old enough to be on at least my 2nd major retelling of Superman's origin, Byrne himself having done one back in the 1980s. This was a good issue of a low-key but entertaining series that I would recommend.