“Damn, how many stories about terraforming the Earth to be Krypton are we gonna get? It’s like, we get it. Assholes from Krypton always be trying to remake Krypton, which ALWAYS means destroying the Earth for some reason.
In a lot of ways, this story is pretty similar to the one in the Man of Steel movie. It’s got a little extra element of having Cara’s robotic parents, sort of, but that doesn’t really pay off all that well.
Also, I’ll say that there’s some very obvious “master race” stuff going on here. Lots of Cyborg Superman spouting off how Kryptonians should live on because they’re the superior race and so on and so forth. I kinda think that’s the easy way out of a more complicated story. How much more interesting is it if a character is trying to revive his people, and in order to do that he has to destroy another, and he’s…conflicted about it? It’s way better in a would-you-rather context.
For example, here’s a bad would you rather: Would you wipe out all the black widow spiders in the world if it meant saving all human life? Um, duh. I would probably say Yes before you even got to the saving humanity part.
Here’s a tougher one: Would you wipe out all the animal life to save humanity (assuming there was some way for humans to continue existing and the ecosystem would compensate with…plants. Let’s say plants)?
In this version, it’s like we need to make sure we’re slapping enough “BAD GUY” stickers on the bad guy, just so anyone reading knows, “Oh, okay. This is an irredeemable bad person.”
I just wanted something more complex.
Oh, also, not the fault of this book, but why is Supergirl named Cara Danvers and Marvel’s Captain Marvel is named Carol Danvers? Carol Danvers showed up 9 years after Cara, but Cara went by “Linda” originally. So what the hell, guys? Why did you have to name these two characters so goddamn close? I’m cool with Thanos and Darkseid basically being the same guy. I’m fine with Marvel’s occasional attempts to create a Batman ripoff. But, what, are we getting a new Superboy named Perry Parker soon? And he works for K. Kona Jameson? And his boyfriend, Ben Stacy, falls off a bridge, thrown off by the Gray Goblin, aka Oswald Osborne? “