Anyway I'm gonna stop drooling now.
Warning I will be giving a complete story synopsis of Superboy issue 1. If you do not wish to spoil it for your self then I suggest picking up the issue then coming back and reading my review.
The cover features Supeboy, all trussed up by machines and looking as though he is being built. Which technically in a way he was right?
Plot:
It starts with a boy in a vat, a bunch of nodes and wires attached to him. His narrative states, they call him Superboy, but he doesn't know why, referring to the people "out there" while he lives in a tank and is observed, he states the lab is his home, and somehow he has learned cognitive thinking. And yet he is unsure how he knows the things he knows. He states as they have been studying him, he as been studying them.
Meanwhile two scientist are discussing his vegetative like state and that they will be terminating the project. To which as they begin to initiate termination process he awakens, causing an explosion and killing all but the one woman who was fighting to save his life. As the debris clear, the female scientist sees he is unharmed and flying.
Were then taken a month later, he has been enrolled in school and ends up answering the teachers really tough question. A girl begins to walk home with him after school the two of them discussing things, they walk right past a burning house with someone screaming for help, and thy do nothing about it.
He is then seen at home after dinner, telling his adoptive parents that he has testing in the city and needs to sleep.
It is here that we realized that he is in a VR simulation, none of this is happening.
We see the female scientist who survived. She questions why every time they run this simulation that he ignores the burning building and the woman screaming for help. She states although they don't know who his human half was, the alien genes they used to create the alien/human hybrid loves to save people, she states Superman is obsessed with saving people. Then she questions why the idea of small town and being a new kid? She is curious where these memories came from. It seems that Superboy is creating the VR simulation from his genetic memories. We then see one of the scientists that the female dismissed from the lab sneak off and make a data transmission of what is going on in these facilities owned by a company called N.O.W.H.E.R.E. to Lois Lane. Stating that the world needs to know that they have there own weapon.
A director then shows up and demands of the female scientist that the time has come to release the Superboy. That he has a plan for him.
The last image is Superboy standing in a awesome suit with the shield and the S on it. with the images of the Teen Titans behind him.
End of issue 1.
So this issue 1 of Superboy gives a quick idea of his origins. We know that he was created and cloned. A human half and Kryptonian half.
So we have the company N.O.W.H.E.R.E. who seems to be the ones who have brought Superboy to life. And their director seems to have involvement in some way an form to the Teen Titans?
I guess we will find out more.
For a Superboy issue this one was pretty lax. The only action really taking place when they were trying to terminate him and he fought back.
Hopefully with the next issue titled Prison Break, there will be a lot more. I enjoyed the origin though and will definitely continue reading this title.
Next up Batman and Robin issue 1.
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