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1. Preview: Superman: Secret Origin #3 - Techland - Time.com says on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:01 am :
   

   [...] peek at Geoff Johns’ Superman: Secret Origin #3. We have pages 10-14, so you’ll want to jump on over to DC first to catch the first nine pages. In issue #3 we find Clark Kent making his way to Metroplis. [...]

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3. balsawan says on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:15 am :
   

   I hate the way clark’s face is drawn

4. nw316 says on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 am :
   

   Definitely a classic in the making

5. badlands75 says on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am :
   

   That is obviously an homage to Christopher Reeve. The Best Superman Ever!

6. Clark Kent Goes From Smallville to Metropolis in Secret Origin 3 - Comic Hero News says on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:37 am :
   

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7. brik-el says on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 am :
   

   Secret Origin so far is alright.
   Whats with the Daily Planet looking all decrepit?
   I still like Byrnes’ M.O.S. better, but this series isn’t over yet. so i guess i cant judge a book by its cover until its done right?

   anywho, i hope this series delivers.
   Long live SUPERMAN!

8. mhalteman says on November 23rd, 2009 at 11:18 am :
   

   Oh boy. This is going to be the biggest hurtle for this series to jump for me. I absolutely HATE the bumbling idiot Clark Kent. The only one that ever made it work was Christopher Reeve (who, yes, I know this book is slavishly emulating) and even he made me cringe sometimes.

   I’m sorry, but Byrne did it just right. Clark Kent is mild-mannered, but that does not mean stupid and it does not mean wimp and it does not mean clown. I know he’s trying to throw off suspicion that he’s Superman, but this characterization just takes it way too far. This person that they are presenting could never ever work as an award-winning investigative reporter. It’s just too much.

9. kalel39 says on November 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am :
   

   I know its part of the history of the character, but why do you have to portray Clark as such a clumsy oaf. Thats the one thing about Clark I never liked. Does this demeanor endear him to people? Does it make him more human? Come on, lets have a Clark that can kick some butt not be everyones punching bag.

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11. meisterlegion says on November 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 am :
    

    I’m confused: There is a ‘Daily Star’ on Earth-0 (New-Earth)? I knew there was a Daily Star on Earth-2; that Clark Kent was the editor-in-cheif of, but I didn’t know there was a Daily Star in this Metropolis too.

    This looks good. I’ve been very impressed so far.

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13. meisterlegion says on November 23rd, 2009 at 1:54 pm :
    

    oops…(sorry for double-post) - one other observation: picture of his dog, Krypto in briefcase

    awwww - how cute is that!

14. vinniebartilucci says on November 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm :
    

    This is obviously his tribute to similar scenes in Superman: The Movie, and as long as it stays brief, I don’t mind it at all. Playing Clark as a clumsy boob can easily get annoying, but all told, Johns didn’t do it too often in his regular run on Superman.

    I see this more as the first day of a country boy in the big city. He really IS looking at the big buildings and not watching where he’s going.

    If this were in each and every issue I’d be railing against it like everyone else. But it’s not. More often than not Geoff played Clark at the Planet as they did in the last years before Crisis - mild-mannered, yes, able to take a joke, but still willing to shoot the odd beam of heat vision at Steve Lombard’s chair to make it collapse under him.

    As for Luthor, I love the idea that he would pass amongst the populace like a king traveling the countryside. I still maintain the single best Luthor story Byrne did was the one where he offers a waitress some outrageous amount of money to leaver her life and come live with him. He gives her twenty minutes to make up her mind…and leaves in fifteen.

15. SageShinigami says on November 23rd, 2009 at 5:42 pm :
    

    I hesitate to say John Byrne’s Clark was better. Clark as a football player? I ain’t buying it.

16. wildclaw says on November 24th, 2009 at 8:30 am :
    

    I refuse to see how anything written and drawn by Byrne can look or read good. Its all so clunky. We all remember what he did to WonderWoman

17. vinniebartilucci says on November 24th, 2009 at 9:32 am :
    

    Honestly, I will bever understand the hate for Byrne. If ANYthing, his crime is his art style has not changed. He may be opinionated, he may even be abrasive, but he can still draw the holy hell out of a page.

18. kalel39 says on November 24th, 2009 at 10:16 am :
    

    I liked Byrne’s Man of Steel series and his run on Superman. I didnt care for his Wonder Woman run. However I do have to admit that I preferred Byrne’s version of Krypton and of Clark Kent. The clumsy Clark Kent in the pages above, for me, dont do justice to what is the strong, grounded, confident persona of Superman, Clark Kent. Remember, he was Clark long before he ever became Superman. If its an act Clark puts on to distance himself from Superman, then that makes it even worse. Why put on an act at all, what use is Clark Kent if he portrays his as a bumbling fool.

    I hope vinniebartilucci is right and this is just “the first day of a country boy in the big city” I hope.

19. mhalteman says on November 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pm :
    

    “Clark as a football player? I ain’t buying it.”

    Go back and read “The Man Of Steel” mini-series again (hardly a chore as it’s a fantastic story and a perfect example of how to completely re-imagine a mythology in just six issues). There was a point to having Clark play football. It was one of the ways that he learned humility. Pa Kent’s opinion of him was very important to Clark and, far from being proud of the fact that Clark was the star of the football team, Pa was actually disappointed that he would use his enhanced abilities to give himself a leg up on the other players. Like most everything else about Byrne’s Superman, it just made more sense for him to learn that lesson himself, rather than just having Pa tell him or just somehow instinctively knowing it.

    I’m on board for this story, despite my reservations. Johns and Frank created the best Superman stories in years with their all-too-brief run on Action Comics. They brought a level of excellence that unfortunately, once they left, quickly spiraled back into the mediocrity that the Superman titles have suffered under for years and continue to suffer under to this day.

    Maybe after all this World of New Krypton stuff, DC will get back to telling the kind of Superman stories that I want to read. I just wish that Johns and Frank could tell them.

20. Spidersonic says on November 24th, 2009 at 10:44 pm :
    

    Thanx 4 tha preview!

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