Some thoughts about Superman: Year One #3

Is time for Superman to meet people like him.

Clark is ready to explore a bigger world, one that is filled with both good and bad people and some of them might not even fit in his own beliefs.

This series returns and it does in both its positive and negative aspects which makes it a bit predictable sadly.

Frank Miller returns and it's still pretty evident that this is one of his works right from the beginning because of the narration and my God, you just can't escape the almost asphyxiating Millery narration which includes the already classic repetition, repetition, repetition of his phrases to give a bigger emphasis to the scenes and it simply doesn't work because such trick simply takes me out of the story making me yell "Okay, okay, I get it!". Also, the whole Lori Lemaris sub-plot gets quickly dropped to give a bigger emphasis to Lois Lane which is something I was expecting but I wasn't expecting it to be so abrupt.

That being said, the rest of the issue is better than the opening segment because it shows how Clark tries to adapt to the rest of the world, showing how he comes up with the classic geeky Clark identity and how this clashes with his job as Superman. There are also a lot of characters being introduced here like Lex Luthor whose personality quickly creates parallels to Clark's not to mention that we also see the inevitable appearance of Batman and, considering how one sided Miller's own work has been whenever Batman and Superman faced each other, it was cool to see Batman losing for once.

And there's the appearance of Wonder Woman... and that opens another can of worms. At first it seemed like she was going to be portrayed respectfully as the balance between Superman and Batman
in a scene that resemblances the Batman Vs. Superman film but better executed. HOWEVER, that angle gets quickly dropped due to Miller's old sexist portrayal of her saying how she wants to be "tamed" and gets automatically infatuated by Clark. In fact, most women in this book get infatuated by Clark and that can get both problematic and tiring.

John Romita Jr. remains in pencils and he still does a pretty good job at depicting most scenes with imposing and even good looking characters.

Not bad but I wouldn't say is particularly good, conflict of interests.