Review: Superboy #1

I’ve mentioned previously that the DC relaunch seems conflicted with regards to origin stories and new readers. Play to the faithful and assume prior knowledge enough to hit the ground running or risk loosing out on core audiences and tell new readers all they need to know from the off? Both approaches seem to have their dangers. Superboy is one of the few books that has opted to go for a straight up origin first issue, and from the looks of it, it was the right choice too. Superboy himself seems fairly radically changed in the nuDCU  (likely as a result of the so so reception of his last ongoing) so the fresh introduction seems the right sell.