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Practically everyone in America knows that Clark Kent and Superman are the same guy, and that Lois Lane is his gal pal...but, how much do you truly know about the only surviving Kryptonian?

Though I watched superhero shows--including Lois & Clark, which is one of my three shows for next month--and films here and there during my childhood and teenage years, I didn't really get into Marvel and DC's stories until about a decade ago; it was a DVD of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward that convinced me to check out what I'd been missing. Since then, I have devoured practically every story featuring Batman, the X-Men, the Power Rangers, etc., I could get my hands on, whether in print (prose or comic) or audiovisual, including both animated and live-action productions. So, something like this is right up my alley.

It seems that Supe tends to get a bit of a bad rap; I've known multiple people who have criticized everything from his brightly colored costume to the fact that he is only vulnerable to kryptonite to even the alleged "cheesiness" of his stories. Well, maybe I'm just a sucker for an action tale, but, I've been a fan of Mr. Kent for a while, and probably always will be.

As you'd expect from the above writing and the four-star rating, I enjoyed this. The artwork was fabulous, the stories were great fun, and, better yet, the content was cleaner than most comic book omnibuses I've read over the last few years. There was occasional profanity--if there weren't any, I would have given this five stars instead--but, trust me when I say that the language and crudity found in at least three-quarters of the more modern DC and Marvel collections I've read make this look Disney clean.