Review: Superman '78 #1

The first issue of Superman '78 hits the bullseye. The script, by Robert Vendetti, reads like a comic book adaptation of an unreleased Christopher Reeve Superman movie.  He hits all the right notes, and gets the tone perfect. The art by Wilfredo Torres, has an Alex Toth quality to it, yet he still captures the actors' likenesses to a tee. That makes it more confusing why Batman '89 had to be more vague with the likenesses. The story opens on a flashback to Krypton's destruction observed by Brainiac. From there we are reintroduced to Richard Donner's version of Metropolis, where Brainiac sends a robot to scout the planet in an action sequence that undoubtedly would not have been able to be done justice on film in the 1970s. 

I hate to compare the first issues of  Superman '78 to Batman '89, but in many ways the Superman issue gets things right where the Batman issue stumbled. Superman '78 #1 was a very fun and entertaining read, and could easily be envisioned as an installment of the Christopher Reeve Superman movie franchise.  This issue earns an A.