

You’d think that these guys would approach Failsafe with caution and actually have a solid strategy, but instead they rush in and simply try to bash Failsafe. It’s an underwhelming opening sequence that doesn’t exactly make me hungry for more, but it’s far from the biggest problem that this book has.Īfter Superman is defeated, the JLA shows up. This fight could have been pretty cool, but it’s really just two pages of Superman completely failing to get anything done while getting stabbed with a kryptonite shard.

Is the creative team going to disappoint and do exactly that, or are they going to go for a more interesting approach? Let’s have a look.

Last month we ended on a cliffhanger with Superman showing up to fight Failsafe in an attempt to rescue Batman, and ever since I’ve been thinking how boring and predictable it would be if Failsafe just sticks some kryptonite into Superman and ends the fight that way. The Zur-En-Arrh stuff is pretty contrived when you really start to think about it, and at times it’s like Zdarsky is more concerned with having fun than crafting a story that makes sense. While I’ve certainly had fun reading Zdarsky’s previous issues, I don’t believe that his run has been a home run so far at all.
