The post stated:
"It’s the kind of thing that pops into your head and just clicks – who’s better suited to pen the adventures of a super-teen in middle America than Jeff Lemire, author of the touching, evocative ESSEX COUNTY and Vertigo’s SWEET TOOTH?Read more here.
So, it makes perfect sense to announce today that Jeff Lemire, along with artist Pier Gallo, will be launching a SUPERBOY ongoing series later this year, with a special, one-off co-feature debuting in the August issue of ACTION COMICS (#892), which will give fans a primer for the full series.”
I'm actually really excited for this series. Superboy (a.k.a. Kon-El, Conner Kent) became one of my favorite characters when I started reading the collected editions of Geoff Johns' run on the Teen Titans. I enjoyed the character's struggle of finding out who he is (especially since he was cloned from Superman and Lex Luthor). Unfortunately Conner died as a result of his second fight against Superboy-Prime and destroying Alexander Luthor's tower during Infinite Crisis
. I felt disappointed when I was starting to enjoy the Boy of Steel and he gets killed off. After learning this information, I spent most of 2008 buying issues of Superboy's first ongoing series off eBay. Fortunately, Conner Kent returned to the land of the living during last year's Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds
mini-series by Geoff Johns. Then the Boy of Steel was given some more time in the spotlight when DC decided to re-launch Adventure Comics, which featured the modern Superboy as its main character for the first six issues. Conner's story during Adventure Comics
allowed Geoff Johns to finish his issues with the character as Superboy comes to terms with having Superman and Luthor's DNA and decides to become his own person. I am definitely adding Lemire's series to my pull list and hopefully, this new ongoing series will be just as good if not better than the recent stories featuring Superboy.
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