Lex Luthor Man of Steel

It's been about 3 months since I first heard about the Lex Luthor Man of Steel trade paperback, last Friday I was finally able to pick it up. The first thing that immediately caught my eye is the unique art style of the book. Every panel has a surreal haze to it giving the drawings an almost photographic feel. Also the level of detail is absolutely mind blowing It too really helped in establishing the mood of the book and pulled me, the reader right into Lex Luthor's Metropolis.

The story, as the title suggests this time around is told from Lex Luthor's point of view. For the first time you get some in site into Lex's motivation for his many schemes to destroy Superman over the years. You very quickly realized he may not be the tyrannical power monger he is sometimes depicted as and perhaps... He is right in thinking the city of Metropolis, should maybe reevaluate its dependency on this super powered being from another planet as it's savior.

The book does an amazing job of showing Superman as no book has before, a juggernaut agile, powerful, nearly invincible and quite frightening. His glowing eyes see all... he is a phantom, in a streak of red and blue he is seemingly everywhere at once. Just imagine what could happen if he ever turned against the human race.

Fortunately, the city of Metropolis still has one last line of defense. A lone patriot who is working tirelessly to protect the citizens of Metropolis and the rest of the world from this still unacknowledged threat, this... so called super man. He is Lex Luthor our savior and the true “Man of steel”.