Synopsis
Collecting SUPERMAN #166, 167 and 184, ACTION COMICS #776 and 793, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #589 and 606, and SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL #111 and 128! This collection features Superman and Lois Lane brought back through time and space to Krypton. What the Man of Steel discovers, though, are two different looks at his homeworld - only he's not sure which one is real! A new cover by Paul Rivoche adorns the latest volume from the modern day adventures of the Man of Steel. This isn't a proper story, unfortunately, but a collection of stories that are basically dreams, with no impact on the world and psyche of Superman. They are like pretty bubbles about Krypton - they are fragile but fun.
Part of the reason the stories don't work well together is that the stories come from different Superman comic series, and so have many different authors and artists, all wanting to show different things - their inventiveness, Krypton as Heaven, Krypton as Hell, meeting the parents you barely knew but getting away with letting them know because there's always a reason for this not to be real. Which is a shame. Krypton has been done poorly by most people, and it's rare to find much thought going into it, or much that is different from before.
This has a glimmer or two of decency in the politics and history of Krypton in one story, but unfortunately in this whole graphic novel it's sandwiched inbetween some awful art, lame fight scenes, and a General Zod that looks like a bad M. Bison rip-off from Street Fighter and lacks all the menacing aspects the character is capable of, and an ending of a story that is practically the Matrix trilogy ending.