Some thoughts about Secret Origins #1

Behold the early days from some of the greatest surperheroes from a new perspective.

The first years of the Man of Tomorrow, the birth of the Boy Wonder and the arrival of the Last Daughter of Krypton. These are the Secret Origins that offer new details about them.

Except for Supergirl. That's mostly due to the author handling her though.

Well, I'm going to start talking as usual about the background of this series. As some of you may know, Secret Origins has been a classic DC series that has allowed to tell new and interesting stories about the first steps from their most popular characters and they certainly need to considering that most of the characters appearing here already had several stories focusing on their origins, hell, Supergirl's own series was basically a long origin tale that lasted for more than a year.

Anyway, let's see what works and what doesn't okay?

The first story is focused in Superman and it's told by current Action Comics' writer Greg Pak. The story is mostly told from the point of view of Clark's mothers this time, Lara and Martha, the story is quite charming and touches several important aspects about what makes Superman the character he is, it's a pretty heartwarming tale overall. This is also contributed by artist Lee Weeks who is able to tell the story with a pretty polished and clean style.

The second segment concentrates in Robin's origin and it's told by Nightwing's former writer Kyle Higgins. His story is also a competent one revealing some interesting aspects of Dick Grayson and his personality that makes him different from Batman. This section's art is brought by Doug Mahnke and his master storytelling techniques certainly help to sell this part of the issue.

Now here comes the bad parts, or shall we say boring ones? The third section features Supergirl and it's handled by the writer of her current series Tony Bedard. This is pretty much a by the numbers story that doesn't tell us anything particularly unique about the superheroine nor give us a new perspective from her early days. The best aspect of this segment is undoubtly Paulo Siqueira's artwork that at least makes it look pretty.

In order of best to worst I would say that I prefered Pak's Superman story with Higgins' Robin on second place and Bedard's Supergirl on a distant third. This was a decent first issue overall, nothing that forces you to buy the current issue nor sells the promise of this new ongoing but it's good for people who want more about these characters.