So not only does Superman have a new power and a secret to share with his best pal Jimmy, it looks like he's getting a new haircut.

DC started releasing their Post-Convergence June solicitations and Superman #41 gets a new writer and a new cut.




I did not enjoy the first story arc from Johns and Romita and found it hard to get through at times. I've never read anything from this new writer but I may give this issue a try. However, there's a lot of new DC that month including a new Batman Beyond, new Bryan Hitch Justice League, start of the Darkseid War and the We Are Robin book. I dunno.

That's a new costume too, isn't it? Doesn't his costume have some kind of odd wrist/glove thing?

I actually don't really mind it. He's had some different hair styles over the years and this looks modern so I think it looks okay.

How does Superman cut his hair, anyway? Kryptonite scissors?

Yeah, I don't mind it either. It's not bad like the mullet was which he had in the 90s...


Back when Byrne was writing Superman in the late 80s, I remember at least one comic that showed him shaving by using a mirror to reflect his laser eye beams back at his face.

He looks so dark and intense. EXTREME!

I haven't kept up for a few years - what new power??

I think he can release all of his energy he's stored up from the yellow Sun all at once. Kinda like going supernova.

Yeah. He blows his solar load with one blast and then he needs a full day to recharge. During that recharge time, he's powerless.

Don't know if it's just this picture but this Romita Superman is pretty trim. Romita usually draws his characters "chunky." I like the look.

I sort of recall something like that in the 70's where a character (can't remember who) was snooping in Clark's medicine cabinet and there was nothing in there.

Bolt cutters.

He goes to.....SuperCuts

I haven't been following Superman in the comics since the first year of the New 52, but I wish they'd stop screwing around with the character. I understand that all superheroes develop over the years, but it used to be once every decade or so...Superman's changes seem to happen annually these days.

That's an... interesting description. So just when he's with Wonder Woman, then?

Although I guess that's when he can cut his hair. I have no idea why they would think to add this particular power, though.

Apparently, John Romita, Jr. asked for this new power. Or maybe he just asked for a new power in general and this is what they came up with?

Good idea with the hair cut explanation. I was totally over-thinking it with a Kryptonite Flowbee.

Yeah JR said he was being ignorant on the character and asked Johns if there was a big power of Supes that hadnt been used in a while. So out of that, they created one.

No big deal. Silver age supes had a new power whenever the story dictated it.

People are bitching about this new power, but Super-Ventriloquism is still OK?

Who said anything like that? I think you just created a strawman.

I think most people would agree that the Silver Age got silly with all the powers. The worst in my opinion was the "super amnesia kiss" from Superman II. What the heck? Superman can give you amnesia by kissing you?

That was because Donner had to change the ending... IIRC Superman 2 was originally going to end with Superman 1's ending, the whole reverse time thing (which is also silly, but I still contend that it was just a visible representation of Silver Age Supes ability to go back in time, and not really reversing the spin of the Earth). But that still isn't as stupid as throwing the super shield, or "rebuilding the great wall of china" vision.

So I assume he's used this new power in the comics to vanquish some super foe or something? It's like Human Torch's nova blast?

Are you kidding? I love super-ventriloquism! That's his greatest power. Especially when he's drinking a glass of water.

I think you meant, "Especially when he's super-drinking a glass of water".

I was finally going to give the new 52 a try but they're altering these characters so much from the original conceptions that they're becoming unrecognizable. Why not just create new characters?