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I happened to be near a Walmart when they started their sale of early screenings for Man Of Steel, the movie that more and more looks like an interesting superhero movie while looking less and less like a Superman movie. So as this post goes live and braving a downpour (although I hear things are worse elsewhere in the East Coast) I should be sitting in a movie theater that I recall having a rather bad sound system and high prices because I wasn’t near a Walmart with access to the better theater in my area) watching a movie pretend it’s a Superman movie. Early reviews have been mixed but according to Newsarama none have been negative so the tale of Steelman should at least be interesting.

My early ticket also came with access to special online features…that required me to get an account with movie streaming service Vudu that I probably won’t use again. I could be wrong. One of those specials is an online comic…that contrary to what the salesman told me I cannot download and will lose forever if they take it down. Thanks for nothing. I was hoping for a print version when I bought the ticket. But hey, I could have gone to Sears and gotten a special variant cover of All-Star Superman #1 even though it has nothing to do with the movie and I already own a Free Comic Book Day printing with the original cover art. I’m not even in the theater and I’m already getting screwed over.

So before the comic disappears for all time, I thought I’d take a look at it to see the early days of Kal-El…who has nothing at all to do with this story except for one panel on the last page where he’s just standing on the fishing boat. So…yeah…….Let’s read it anyway.

Man Of Steel Prequel

DC Comics by way of Vudu (no date given)

STORY: David S. Goyer, Geoff Johns, and Zack Snyder

SCRIPT: Sterling Gates

PENCILER: Jerry Ordway

INKERS: Jerry Ordway, Bob McCloud, Joe Rubinstein, and Bob Wiacek

COLORS: Hi-Fi

LETTERER: Rob Leigh

EDITOR: Kristy Quinn

Credits are given for the creators of Superman and Supergirl, but this is Steelman and some girl named Kara who has about as much chance of being Supergirl as Dick Grayson did being Robin in Nolan’s other superhero movie.

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