God I missed Jimmy Olsen.
We got our hands on an advance copy of Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #10, the first post-lockdown issue of Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber’s blazingly smart, brutally funny hit series. While there was no expectation that an issue that was probably mostly in the can before everything shut down would feel any different, it’s still comforting to slip back into this insanely silly world to find it exactly as it was left: there are a couple of bits in here that are the funniest things I’ve read in eight to ten weeks.
But for all the Kevins that need avenging, what really sets this book apart is the attention to detail by the team. There are so many little touches to the way the story is told that make this a superlative comic reading experience. The best non-gag touch of the entire...
We got our hands on an advance copy of Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #10, the first post-lockdown issue of Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber’s blazingly smart, brutally funny hit series. While there was no expectation that an issue that was probably mostly in the can before everything shut down would feel any different, it’s still comforting to slip back into this insanely silly world to find it exactly as it was left: there are a couple of bits in here that are the funniest things I’ve read in eight to ten weeks.
But for all the Kevins that need avenging, what really sets this book apart is the attention to detail by the team. There are so many little touches to the way the story is told that make this a superlative comic reading experience. The best non-gag touch of the entire...
- 5/15/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
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