(1997) Mark Waid & Alex Ross, Titan, £9.99, tpbk, pp230, ISBN 1-85286-816-3
You’d think by now that people would be fed up of thinking about superheroes and their implications, but no, here’s another piece of pretentious nonsense, dressed up as serious speculation on facing up to our responsibilities as almost-super humans.
It’s a shame really: Kingdom Come is beautifully illustrated, and there’s a certain post-modern frisson in seeing so many familiar heroes deployed in (slightly) unfamiliar roles - the retired Superman, the heroic/fascist Batman, but in the end these effects are only surface deep - there’s nothing in this story that hasn’t been said before, and better, by Watchmen or New Statesmen.
Matt Freestone
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