Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
In our previous installment we saw the early origins of Steel, but he probably won’t be a big figure for a while yet. I’m wondering if this is the transition phase between “Funeral For A Friend” and “Reign Of The Supermen”, as we see the beginning stages of four not-Supermans that will be part of the final arc.
This isn’t the first time, and probably won’t be the last, that we see an event, even a relatively small one like this, used to create new characters. And yet this was more successful than, say Bloodlines because they were good characters that saw good use. The characters, three heroes and a villain, all did pretty well, although one of the heroes has since faded from comics, the Eradicator, while the name has gone to be used by less-good Kryptonian artifacts. (I don’t have time for more details here.) Last issue we saw the first part of that with John Iron’s decision and Westfield’s desecration/theft. Where does it go from there?
