Lex booms the Superfam over to Apokolips to become its saviour because Superman is somehow The Chosen One – yowzers, Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason sure are imaginative, original writers! Why does Lex suddenly care about Apokolips’ wellbeing? Because contrived bullshit. Tomasi/Gleason are horrible writers, they don’t need reasons! He might’ve had reasons but I was beyond bored to notice. And Lex is bopping around in a Superman armor these days and pretending to be good so the reason was probably equally dumb and uncharacteristic anyway.
If you thought that was bad, Superman and kid go to a dying planet that looks sickeningly like the Gungan city from The Phantom Menace because the story parallels what happened to Crapton and snore… Meesa couldn’t cared less!
Superman, Volume 6: Imperius Lex was awful. The stories are dull and pointless – why should Superman bring peace to Apokolips? What does that accomplish? The only thing Apokolips had going for it was that it was this cartoonishly nightmare world full of mental weirdos constantly fighting – now it’s neutralised and everyone’s boring, what’s the point of its existence? Who cares about some water planet full of religious nutters in denial of its impending doom? There’s also a forced feel-good story about disabled orphans or something going on a day trip to the Watchtower – ugh, so corns.
Look, I get it: Supes is a tough character to write good stories about. He’s too well-defined at this point, he’s the OG OP character, etc. That’s why every other Superman story is a retelling of his origin and why the latest Superman titles under Bendis just rehash familiar tropes – it’s easier to go back and redo what’s worked in the past than go the much harder route of figuring out new, exciting stories to tell instead. I wouldn’t know how to write a great Superman story any more than Tomasi/Gleason/James Robinson or DC seem to!
Still, that doesn’t excuse the crappiness of this book any - Imperius Lex is imperius drek!
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