Superman: True Brit

[Cardiac]

Was anyone else surprised at just how bad this was? The satire was heavy-handed and fumbling, the art was lacking, the stereotypes were about 50 years out of date and the essence of Superman was completely lost. I expected better of Cleese, and marginally better of Byrne also.

I'm not sure why the humour struck such a dull note with me. It might be a regional thing. Whether all the 'what would the neighbours say?' stuff is funny to people from Weston-Super-Mare I don't know but it didn't translate well to a Midlands boy. How did it come across to foreign readers?

All in all it definitely wasn't worthy of a hardback printing.

[Blake Petit]

I liked it, but I didn't love it. To me, it wasn't the jokes that felt wrong, but the style. For most of the book, I felt like I was reading an illustrated screenplay -- I kept thinking "this would be a lot funnier acted out."

[Mathew Smith]

I couldnt stand it! It was like, watching "Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em" with Superman, it just didnt work!! Oh thats just made me angry thinking about it now!!