REVIEW: My Adventures With Superman #6

It looks like the series will conclude with My Adventures With Superman #6 this week and with it, so does the story of Amazo’s humanity. There’s one last push in this battle against DuBois as he activates his last resort in what is also a holiday-themed story just in time as the season changes.

The best aspect of the covers for this series is that they are done by members of the art and animation department working on the show, so they look like screenshots from episodes that could be. Carli Squiteri did the illustration for the first issue’s cover and wraps it up with the one for issue #6. Amazo appears alongside Superman in the more humanoid form he has evolved into over this time.

Another great and unique aspect of My Adventures With Superman covers is the manga makeovers for the Man of Steel. It’s appropriate because the show’s animation and visual direction are inspired by artists like Tokitokoro. It’s Superman and Clark with literal snapshots of his newfound life as a hero, which are actually scenes from season one. It almost feels like you can open the comic book to the right with this variant.

Robert DuBois, or Bloodsport, may not have a Kryptonite bullet but he does have a weapon of mass destruction he just activated a couple miles short of Metropolis in a last-ditch effort to destroy Amazo. Something is also telling us that this weapon was originally intended to be used on Superman. The rest is history as Superman and Amazo race to get the nigh-doomsday machine off the planet before it goes off.

It would be nice to see more in between comic adventures from show developer Josie Campbell that expands the world with characters not used on screen. All together now, these issues do read like a complete episode. This whole story has been fun to read while season two released at the same time. However, the official description of the comic mentioned the start of a secret weapon by Amanda Waller that would lead into season two. I personally did not see that in my read. Still, Campbell keeps us entertained with the one at hand. Letters are done by Lucas Gattoni.

Interior artist Pablo M Collar, coloured by Hi-FI has Superman and Amazo taking on a piece of machinery bursting with power in this one. At this point, there’s nothing left to throw at Bloodsport. It figures because Collar went all out on the fight scenes in the last two issues with the previous one feeling like the grand finale. This does have all the panels of a Superman comic arc final with the big threat being revealed to Metropolis as a whole with panels demonstrating the level of trouble the city is in with the window to stop it closing.

(8/10) The Iron Giant-inspired take on Amazo ends and comes full circle in My Adventures With Superman #6. There are still some questions about how exactly it ties into season two, but we got a great Amazo story to add to the list of the character’s evolution from a power-copying villain to a profound question of purpose and even humanity.