DC Universe

This week's first issue of Superman: Secret Origin revisits the earliest days of the Man of Steel yet again - but in such a way that you might just find yourself wanting to believe a man could fly after all.

Best known, probably for all his successful "epic" comics - big, overblown superhero stories like Infinite Crisis, Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War or the current Blackest Night - writer Geoff Johns has a secret weapon of his own: He's really good at the sentimental coming of age stories. You can see it in his Teen Titans comics, or currently in the Superboy series running in Adventure Comics - there's something about the alienation and melodrama of adolescence that his writing can perfectly capture, especially when captured with the right artist... and, thankfully, Secret Origin has Gary Frank drawing.

Read the full review of SUPERMAN: SECRET ORIGIN #1!