Colonialists versus Colonialist

By reading Superman: Brainiac (1), the player had only one desire: to know the sequence (here present)!
Unfortunately, after reading this involves penetrating the huge (since very long) that represents the crossover saga "New Krypton", straddling several series and various one-shots and mini-series (2). This time, the idea of ​​Panini comics publishing the said crossover in the form of a series of large collections is presented as a solution rather comfortable (except for the wallet ...).
Moreover, you should know that the saga in question is rooted in the respective runs of Kurt Busiek on "Superman" series, even in that of James Robinson, successor Busiek, especially in that of Geoff Johns on " Action Comics "(3).
I think you have to repeat it loudly: "New Krypton" is a major saga that is built on the long-term work of several writers and almost three years before it is launched .
However, several people claimed to have taken the bandwagon by starting with this volume without being lost in their reading. Having read most of the previous three years, I found that "New Krypton" is the culmination of an ambitious mythological development, and it really rewarding to have read the basics.

If you do not already know, Superman defeated Brainiac and found the mark on the villain. Without revealing too much, we must begin "New Krypton" knowing that "Man of Steel" discovered that Brainiac collected for centuries, the cities of several missing planets, by miniaturizing them. Having found the lost city of Kandor, Superman brings it back to Earth and managed to free her. 100,000 Kryptonian, all having the same powers that our heroes are now on Earth. Past the moments of joy and gladness, things will be complicated ...

The saga itself is captivating and well designed. Despite its status as a crossover often fictitious event as dictated by commercial imperatives basely (plus there is superheroes and bastons, there was more of event, there was more success ...), we feel that the authors (respectively Geoff Johns, James Robinson and Sterling Gates) took the matter seriously and are passionate about their project. This passion is contagious and I think any fan of Superman will be snapped up by all these adventures and the dramaturgy.
Cohabitation and the obvious opposition between land and Kryptonian bringing all sorts of tensions, the writers we develop a full subtext substance on racial and cultural conflicts. More than ever, the people of Krypton appears as a colonialist threat of major symbolic and revise our own Western civilizations, echoing the real conflicts that plague our world today. The US obviously enjoying not find themselves suddenly in a weak position ...
For the rest, the saga is well tucked although sometimes cacophonous. The set is still high quality and justifies the usual fighting between the main figures of the universe concerned. The great battle between the JLA in Kryptonian, for example, here is perfectly logical, while the usual conflicts of the kind that intervening do all these heroes of free and commercial way ...
The crossover sees a horde of designers succeed, without this gene homogeneity of the whole. One thinks Death of Superman, which was the largest event related to the mythology of the "Man of Steel" in the 90s, which is alluded to through the return of a villain ...

It only remains to read more, knowing that this first volume is considered only as an introduction ...
This will result in Superman, Volume 2: In the heart of the new Krypton and Superman Volume 3: The last battle of the new Krypton!

(1) "Superman Brainiac" was published by Editions VF Panini comics in the magazine "DC Universe special issue" # 18.
(2) "New Krypton" includes episodes "Superman New Krypton Special", "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen Special", "Adventure Comics # 1", "Superman # 681-683", "Action Comics # 871-873" and "Supergirl # 35 and 36".
(3) Superman: Back in Action (A One Year Later Story), Superman: The Third Kryptonian, Superman: Last Son (all these arches were published in the journal "Superman & Batman" Panini editions) and Superman: The world according Atlas and "Superman: Brainiac" story arcs are preparing, with varying quality and importance, the events of "New Krypton".