VDT VIEW

By Dean Poling
VDT View

Following a battle with the genius-villain Brainiac, Superman discovers the unthinkable: A small piece of his native planet, Krypton. Even stranger, there are Kryptonian survivors on this chunk of Krypton. Stranger still: This Kryptonian city of Kandor has been shrunk and preserved in a bottle. This is an old tale to long-time Superman fans. The new twist is that in this new graphic-novel collection, Superman is able to bring Kandor back to its normal size. Celebration is followed by confusion when Earth’s humans and these last Kryptonians cannot get along. And Superman is caught between two worlds: The world of his birth and the world that adopted him. This hardcover edition collects several past “Superman” issues, several artists, and the writing talents of Geoff Johns and James Robinson. “New Krypton” is a fascinating new look at an old Superman/Supergirl plot point.