Letters to Last Sun #1

[mockingbird]

Tell me what you think of the issue!

[torchbearer]

Wow - what a great start! I love your Kal, and the casual, comfortable world you've built for Krypton. I guess you want us to fall in love with the place before you blow it up! Very fun. It did suffer from a little "first issue syndrome", but there's really no helping that.

[zirron]

I don't usually read Superman books, but this one was pretty good. My real complaint that the first issue was so short... guess that leaves you wanting more?

I hope the next issue is a bit longer...

*** -- from me.

[houseofmystery]

Brilliant first issue! The world you've created is wonderful, and I'll be sure to read #2! We're beginning to get a bit deeper into the world of Earth U, I guess (outside of Don's WW2 opus', that is!) and I'm liking what I'm seeing!

Thanks for writing this, Sam!

Jun 13, 2008 23:52:13 GMT -5 torchbearer said:

It did suffer from a little "first issue syndrome", but there's really no helping that.

What is 'first issue syndrome', exactly? Heh...

[daelan]

This is excellent! I really like the feel of the world you've built here. Kal is still enough like the Clark we all know and love, and Lyla has a nice spunk to her, although without Kal's temperance I could see her being irritating (much like Lois, actually). It's a good pairing of personalities. In particular, though, I like Jor-El. He has a very paternal, wise presence to him. A good mix of the Father and the Scientist.

Obviously trouble's on the horizon, but first you have to care about the characters. This issue accomplished that very well! And I don't know that it's too short. I find comics at the DC3 tend to feel shorter than your standard 22 page issues, but with a good artist I can see this filling out to be a full 22-pager. There's certainly enough meat in here... The establishing shots, tall, angular views of Kryptonopolis, shots of the crowds around Kalyla (hahah! Brangelina, eat your heart out) , and of course the occasional 1-panel foreshadowing of the lab, the machine, the readout, the pulsing red warning light spread throughout the issue could make for a real tension-builder... Even the colors can build tension... Red sun, red streets, red lighting... It's a very impending sort of color, red! All brought to a head in the pulsing red DOT.

Of course this brings me to my only real complaint at the DC3 and that's simply that the issues are written as prose rather than in screenplay/ comic page-and-panel format. I think comics are a unique medium that has all the visual elements of a movie, all the literary depth of a novel, and the flexibility of being relatively inexpensive and easy to produce (far easier than film, after all). The only thing comics lack is a soundtrack, which a reader can fill in with a little imagination or a handy MP3 playlist...

But I digress. Great work! And maybe I'm just wishing the issues were written in comic format so I could really get a grasp of what I should be drawing in my head. Probably my own hangup! Regardless, this is a good beginning. **** from me! See you next issue.

[chris]

Good issue. The cover is really really cool looking. It was a little short but not a bad thing by any means. Interesting take on Kal and Krypton, still familiar but different.