DC Comics & Superman #31 Spoilers & Review: The Funeral March To New Series Featuring Superman: Son Of Kal-El #1!

Spoilers, Top Story

DC Comics and Superman #31 Spoilers and Review follows.

The Funeral March To…

…New Series Featuring…

Superman: Son Of Kal-El #1!

The series continues with…

…the galactic threat of the Shadowbreed…

…parasites that taste Superboy using his heat vision in a new way.

…detonating it and allowing them to escape with a seemingly uninfected alien.

Superman tries to speak to sense to the aliens, but…

…they’ve ALL be infected and…

…are marching to their collective deaths!

…Superman tries to save them, but may be susceptible to the Shadowbreed, as…

…his son and the alien they saved tried to figure out what’s going on with the Shadowbreed, but…

…it was all a multi-layered trap to control Superman!

The book also includes a fun back-up with Loose Cannon and Gangbuster.

The Pulse:

A terrible main story; I feel like I’ve read it before and it doesn’t feel epic. The art was ok though. The back-up redeems the issue a bit leaving a better taste in my mouth; better art on the back-up too. 4.5 out of 10.

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