Well, now that we’re done reading the Superman novel you’d think you were done hearing about Superman for a while. So let me welcome you to the site because you’re obviously super-new here. We still have Superman in comics, and it’s time to look at another Secret Files & Origins comic magazine. That’s a curious thing. The covers say “Secret Files And Origins” but the publishing information says “Secret Files”. But this one isn’t about Superman, but the trio that makes up Team Superman. I guess Alpha-Centurion and Eradicator weren’t available at this point.
I don’t think you can call 90s Superboy, post-Crisis Supergirl, or Steel supporting cast. All three had their own books and lives while operating outside of Metropolis. But I guess they weren’t considered popular enough to get their own Secret Files books. Steel was nearing the end of volume 2, which to me was a mercy killing given how little I cared for Priest’s run. Sadly Supergirl was still going on, and I’m not sure what happened to the issues I had of that run or you’d already know my problem. See, for some reason Peter David decided to have Matrix merge with a woman named Linda Danvers (Kara’s secret identity before she was tossed out of continuity), a victim of a botched sacrifice that her boyfriend somehow talked her into. It’s not the weirdest thing about that run and I’ll get into that in the review. Superboy was still hanging out in Hawaii but he wasn’t so popular there and his girlfriend left him because he’ll never age. Not because of the usual sliding timeline thing, but because of the cloning process. Although does that mean he’ll never age physically, which some people in the real world actually suffer from (it’s a disease) or that he can’t possibly age emotionally because I think he did eventually. So, no clue there.
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Team Superman: Secret Files
DC Comics (May, 1998)
As usual numerous writers and artists contribute so it would take forever to list them all.
COVER ART: Dave Johnson
COVER COLOR: Matthew Hollingsworth
So there are two stories, an “interview” with Superboy, Linda’s diary, a breakdown of the differences between the powers of the Super Three (Superman, Supergirl, and Superboy), and a whole lot of profiles pages. I like how the profiles are divided so that you have Superboy’s supporting cast and villains first, followed by Steel’s, and finally Supergirl’s. I’m not going to go over those because you only care if you follow the books or those particular characters. I’m going to focus just on the two stories instead.
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