Exclusive:Superman ’78Is Bringing Another Egghead to the Nerd Brawl

The spirit ofRichard Donner ’s originalSupermanmovie from the late seventies endure on in DC ’s newSuperman ‘ 78series from writer Rob Venditti , artist Wilfredo Torres , and colorist Jordie Bellaire . Superman ‘ 78 ’s first issue get a edition of the Kryptonian based on Christopher Reeve back into the public eye in a familiar story of his everyday reconciliation act between his lives asan audacious reporterand as the populace ’s most powerful superhero .

While Superman was easily able to dispatch the mysterious exotic invader have in the first issue , the scoundrel ’s desperate attack to transmit information back to “ Einstein ” left the grinder quite confused , as he ’d never heard of a being by that name . Though Superman fans will be quite intimate with the Brainiac , in this telling , the reference ’s still new to Superman , who does n’t yet understand just how life-threatening the obsessive collector is . This Superman ’s still much more accustomed to get by with the like of a comparatively petty Lex Luthor , who he ’s already landed in jail at least once by Superman ‘ 78 ’s second issue .

In this exclusive previous of Superman ‘ 78 # 2 , life ’s hard for Lex Luthor once he ’s back on the street and tasked with getting his deed together by landing a proper job . Of the many things Lex excels at , solve a 9 - to-5 is n’t one of them because he does n’t try out all that hard . But Lex ’s refusal to play by society ’s rules might terminate up being the precise reason why Superman ask his help as the serial persist in .

The cover of Superman ‘78 #2.