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Superboy, Vol. 2: Extraction by Scott Lobdell, Tom DeFalco

geeknb's review against another edition

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4.0

#0 Origin story. Enjoyable art.

#8 - 9. Part of The Culling crossover (plus the Annual). Infuriating because there's no conclusion. The Big Bad escapes and there's no clarification as to who he is and whether he's mad or justified in his horrific actions. I do like the various teams and how they come together.

#10 Superboy and Wonder Girl find themselves on a mysterious island with dinosaurs. Cassie picks the name Kon for him. Story continues in TT #10. They find the TTs. Tim has a leadership crisis of confidence. Bart makes out with Solstice. They find Danny the Street, damaged, but he helps the escape. I love Bunker in this episode. Talking Tim off the ledge. Finding Danny. Hugging Superboy.
#11 Aww Kon and Bunker are BFFs. Love this issue.

#12 Who the hell is whitewashing Bunker in this issue. Bloody colourists are useless. Kon meets some ‘ordinary people’ in a night club.

Overall I liked this.

imakandiway's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional fast-paced

4.0

shannonleighd's review against another edition

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2.0

I didn't really like The Culling the first time I read it in Teen Titans. The issues in this trade were of a much lower quality than the first volume. I still like Superboy but I want a new story I don't already know the end of!

I did like issue #0 because I wasn't aware of the whole problem with clones on Krypton so having that backstory seems important to know about. (Although, again, we're forced to backtrack and essentially re-read issue #1, just from a different POV.)

The majority of this volume is spent with the Teen Titans, so if you're reading or have read that series already this particular book could be skipped without losing much.

sans's review against another edition

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3.0

Things felt out of order here. I read the Harvest stuff separately, but then it came back again at the end of this volume?

That's another peeve I have with N52. All the crossovers end up leaving half a story out or include a random issue of another title and I'm sitting here wondering how many people actually bought floppies and read them in order because that's not very practical.

therudielibrarian's review against another edition

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5.0

I really enjoyed the integration of Superboy into the Teen Titans. There's a great playfulness between him and Wonder Girl.

birdmanseven's review against another edition

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2.0

Mostly nonsense. I did enjoy the Superboy/Wonder Girl section though.