Superman #680
Written by James Robinson ; Art by Renato Guedes and José Wilson Magalháes; Cover by Alex Ross
So this is part 4 of James Robinson's recent take over of the Superman title.
I had purchased #677 when he came on but there was no usual "gotta keep reading it" vibe for me that I usually get from Robinson so I never picked up the next issue.
Let's face it... dragging out Superman fighting Kirby's Atlas character pretty much smells of the good-old modern "let's pad it all to fit a trade paperback" story-telling mentality.
And I'm sure as hell not interested in wasting cash on the individual issues of most of these padded storylines anymore.
Anyway... from the moment this cover came out I knew I was going to buy the book.
Krypto sans silly Silver Age human-thinking thought balloons = a very hard Nala.
Even as a kid I wanted Krypto, who rarely appeared in the 70s even, to be a real dog that just happened to have Superman-level powers.
And it only took me 30 years and three continiuity reboots to get it!
Suffice to say, Superman's getting this this shit beat out of him by Atlas and Krypto comes into whip the bite this hell out of Atlas. And he does a remarkable job of this.
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