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It's a great and wonderful book.
Si no me equivoco, tengo el contenido de todo el libro en la edición de tapa blanda del coleccionable Superman. Cuando lo corrobore rerreseño y blablablá...
Ohhhh "Seyg-El." Like Jerry. Very good. (Also this miniseries is amazing and there's a slew of bonus stories, including one that answers the question of why the Green Lanterns didn't save Krypton. Where's the World of Smallville/Metropolis collections?)
The book was really fantastic.
This is not a Superman story. It is a science fiction/fantasy story about Krypton people(view spoiler)[ with the plots that eventually explaining the cause of the planet's doom (hide spoiler)]. The Kryptonians on this comic can easily be renamed as human. The society issues on the comics especially the earlier chapters are usual stuff in science fiction tropes.I like the story is relatively short without much filler. No 'porn' of meaningless long battle/fight scenes. So maybe for people who want...
Pretty awful, though at least you get some early Mignola art (sort of), but it's nowhere near his mature period. The "World of" trilogy of Superman miniseries are all painfully boring and don't offer any interesting insights into characters or events that you couldn't get elsewhere. I'm a sucker for "early years" flashback stories that fill in gaps in continuity, but this ain't it chief. Avoid unless you're a Superman historian.
This is a well done Superman story which gives us a look at a post "Crisis on Infinite Earths" Krypton and how those changes relate to the current Man of Steel.
Bought it to check out Mignola's art. I ended up enjoying the story.
Pretty decent history of Krypton, starting at the end of it's 'Golden Age' through a war and to the events that lead up to it's destruction.Some nice sci-bits ( love the big warbots in the war story), but the art didn't entirely hook me and much as I like the effort Byrne made to create Krypton as a real feeling world, I missed the old Krypton of the silver age comics.Lots of good bits, but an unsatisfactory whole.
I read the four-issue miniseries "The World of Krypton" by Byrne and artist Mike Mignola prompted by the free giveaway of the first issue in comic stores to promote the tv show Krypton. While the show turned me off by its insistence on getting away from the cool politics of Krypton for time travel nonsense with characters I don't care about, this series was a fun, if rather overly expository look at a possible past of Superman's race. The problem being: you don't really care about anyone, especi...
This comic was very interesting for me to read as a little kid. This comic is a prequel about Superman's birthplace which looks pretty neat. I really liked the world that his kind lived in and I also liked the culture that they had. All in all, a fun comic.
The trade collects the four-issue Byrne/Mignola miniseries, plus the "Fabulous World of Krypton" back-ups that ran intermittently in the Superman titles during the 70s.Byrne's miniseries is solid sci-fi parable adventurism. It's nothing amazing, though Byrne does a solid job bringing all the history together by having Jor-El and later Superman flashback to the stories to show how it all led to Krypton's destruction. Solid. Mignola's art got much better when he started drawing Hellboy.The prologu...
Entertaining, but fundamentally it’s flawed. Still Mignola’s art is superb.
I have decided to read this book since Krypton is set to premiere on The Sci-Fi Channel in late March and to kick off the celebration of Superman's 80th Anniversary and anticipation of the 1,000th issue of Action Comics. I enjoyed the tales coming from Superman's home planet and the lessons that teach the reader that real heroism isn't genetic and comes from superpowers. The original mini-series was a blast to read. These stories also are cautionary tales about how we treat each other as human b...
I'm not a regular Superman's reader, I heard John Byrne's run was very good, so I decided to start from there.This is an interesting and entertaining story about Kripton. When Superman shows up it gets worse, but not enough to ruin it. It's more like an origin story, but it ends where the origin usually starts, could it be called a pre-origin story then?The science fiction aspect of Superman's origin is one I enjoy, and here it's well done. Enjoyable reading.
Superman: The World of Krypton presents a collection of stories put together to give readers a larger view of what life on Krypton was like. Written back in the 80s, the book's main focus is centered on the re-interpretation of Superman and his history by John Byrne. In John Byrne's re-interpretation, Krypton is a society that has lost its humanity through its absolute devotion to science. Nearly 2 decades later, many of the plot points in the World of Krypton that John Byrne presents is still r...
It's a best book
In the 90's Byrne has reinvented Superman which was at the most fun. I remember to collect all those stories specially because Byrne is not just one of the best artists in the genre but one of its finest writers and who obviously is influenced by science fiction and fantasy authors. Although I hardly have wanted to read his superman stories again, "World Of Krypton" remains as one the best comics ever written. The re imagination that Byrne and Mignola made of Krypton brought it to a higher level...
