Absolute Power Corrupts: 'Superman Red Son' Review
If there are two things that I can say are a definitive mixed bag of cats for me in the industry it's the quality of Mark Millar's writing and the current state of the DC animation studio. So when they announced a few years ago that one of the next animated projects they would be working on would be Superman: Red Son , Millar's Superman story where the Man of Steel had landed in Russia instead of rural Kansas and grew up to be a champion for the Soviets, my eye twitched a little (or a lot) as my faith in the DC animation team had been severely waning and my faith in Millar's source material in this particular instance was nonexistent (Millar's Superman Red Son is one of the most terribly paced and horribly written Superman books I've ever read with little to no narrative cohesion. I even tried to reread it after watching the movie and found the same problems as I did before). Here' ns the thing, I wanted to preface my review with this because I want to be 1...
