well, according to Amazon , it will be published on July 31st.
Anyone want to start a pool as to when it REALLY gets published? 
Plastic Man?
Miller’s going to have to pull something incredible out of his back pocket to justify THAT…
It seems that real-world events may have made his original plotline absurd. I mean, since 9/11, can anyone REALLY believe that soft-core Web porn starlets and spandex tights can save the world?
Anyway, I am not holding my breath for a comic that is already about six months overdue.
I have been really disappointed by the first 2 volumes, so I will probably not even buy the third.
Does anyone else think the art in this series is just awful?
And how much Kryptonite could there POSSIBlEY be on earth that batman could still get so much to kick superass after so many other villians have used so much in the past?
I think over the years the entire planet of Krypton could have been reconstructed out of the bits and pieces that all the little shit villians have “found” so far.
In The Dark Knight Returns Bruce says (during the original whooping on Supe’s ass):
“It wasn’t easy to synthesize, Clark…
Took years and cost a fortune…
Luckily I had both…”
So I have to presume he has streamlined the production of artificial kryptonite over the past few years.
(Back in the '70s, there was an attempt to harness the power of kryptonite as an energy source. The resulting accident created a snd-man Superman doppleganger who stole half of Kal’s abilities. No body seems to remember this…)
Well, a friend of mine got me the first two as a sort of gag birthday present… And he ended up reading some of it and liked it. I read it and liked it.
I think because we both only have slight interest in these characters we could enjoy the story without regular fanboy pissing and moaning.
Plastic Man was great.
Elongated Man was great.
WW and Supes love scene was really cool.
Green Arrow’s introduction to the faux-Black Canary was swanky.
All things that made me enjoy the series.
A lot of DCs things have been late
The Wonder Woman Archives v3 came out yesterday… a month and a half late.
If it is a special product, it is often late from DC.
Comics that are not constructed in assembly-line fashion are often late.
Myself, I value quality over punctuality. And Frank, IMHO, usually delivers a quality product, notwithstanding the weak ending to DK2, no. 2.
I do: “Kryptonite, Nevermore!”, roughly Superman #233 or so ca 1972.
The accident also turned all the Green Kryptonite on earth to iron, leading to a great scene where some petty thug pulls out a piece of kryptonite and says (more or less) “So Superman, whaddaya think of THIS?!” and Superman causally grabs the no-longer dangerous Green Kryptonite, eats it in a few bites and says thoughtfully “Not bad. Needs salt”. Great moment.
Denny O’Neil wrote it as part of a greater plan to really tone down Superman’s powers (remember this was during his “Let’s casually push planets out of orbit and reignite suns with heat vision” days). Ultimately either he got bored (he didn’t enjoy writing Superman but he was the hot new property and Superman was supposed to be DC’s #1 book) and left the book or he got kicked off the book…I’ve heard it both ways. Anyway, what was supposed to happen is the Sand-creature sucks up about 1/2? 2/3ds? of Superman’s powers and then die heroically/be killed/etc, but taking the power with him, permanantly reducing Superman’s power level. But that never happened.
Fenris
I remember an Add in one of my older comics mentioning the New Superman in which they discuss Kryptonite being eliminated but Something was removing his power. It was a page spread preparing Superman fans for exciting changes in 1972.
That was an Interesting year for DC Batman was being overhauled at that time too, and the Joker was reintroduced in the form we now recognize him as.
The panels depicting Chris Matthews and Cokie Roberts (separately) were worth the price of admission.