Andy Khouriさんのイラストまとめ

Another little info download: Superman can take a breath deep enough to oxygenate his blood for an hour in space. Neat. Imposes a limit on his cosmic activities, which is good for plots, and allows the artist to draw him doing cool super shit w/out a spacesuit or mask.

I do like this demonstration of Superman’s powers. “He’s flying the ship from the inside!” Also cool splash of the thanagarian fleet. Interesting color. Anyone have the original? Curious if it was colored quite this way.

Little scenes like these are all over Byrne’s Superman work. He’s very into explaining powers, the limits of powers, etc. I really like this reboot’s de-powering of Superman, which they definitely used in the cartoon too. But I’m not wild about these little info downloads.

Ordway is really good at people being sad but also Superman blowing someone’s clothes off.

Cool Byrne action.

This sequence of Clark running from the omega beams is fucking rad. The bystander dialogue is a lot of exposition. It’s funny to think the average person is so familiar with Daily Planet office politics. But holy shit this is cool.

Wolfman & Ordway use Cat Grant’s first appearance to express unambiguously that Clark is hot and hot people think he’s hot. I’m guessing this was a conscious break from the vision of Clark as a sexless bore a la Christopher Reeve etc.

Interesting that Lois and Clark have a mutual flirtation despite being work colleagues. There’s no question from the context that they both consent to the dynamic, but it does show how much things have changed; I suspect that would be something acknowledged in the text today.

More agony as Clark endures the kryptonian Wikipedia download. This is a good, economical way to put a lot of backstory into place for later plot convenience.

Remember the shot of Jonathan Kent wacking this apparition with a shovel; it will be directly referenced years hence.