Book: Superboy volume #2: Extraction (issues #8-12 and #0) by Scott Lobdell (#8-11) and Tom DeFalco (#8-9, #11-12 and #0) and cover by Ian Churchill with Alex Sollazzo
Illustration by Iban Cello (#8), R.B. Silva (#8-9 and #11-12 and #0), Sebastian Fiumara (#10) and Robson Rocha and Eduardo Pansica (#12)
Ink by Rob Lean (#8-9 and #11-12), Iban Coello (#8-9) and Greg Adams, Mariah Benes and Andy Owens (#12)
Color by Richard and Tanya Horie (#8-12 and #0) and Hi-Fi (#8-9 and #0)
Letters by Dave Sharpe (#8), Travis Lanham (#9-10, #12 and #0) and Wes Abbott (#11)
Edition: Single Print Issues
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
Volume #2 was not as good a read as the first one especially since it was very Teen Titans centric and contained the poorly written #0 issue and "The Culling" cross over story. I already had the disappointment of reading The Culling the first time for Teen Titans vol #2 and reading it a second time made it even worse. It was a terrible story that features the Teen Titans and the Legion trying to stop Harvest and his minions the Ravagers. Harvest is by far the most uninteresting villain and as his name suggest he wanted to harvest the strongest survivors from the Titans and the Legions after the fight with the Ravagers.
After the Titans and the Legion were able to escape they parted ways but something went wrong and the Titans became separated. It left Wonder Girl and Superboy alone on a strange island inhabited by a dinosaur. Wonder Girl was having a difficult time getting along with Superboy because she was still mad that he had attacked the Titans (see Teen Titans vol #1) but she had no choice since they needed to work together until they could find the rest of the team. And they did (see Teen Titans issue #10) leaving the team to fight off more dinosaurs and getting rescued by Titans member Danny the Street.
Not wanting to stay with the Titans, Superboy got an amazing apartment in New York City but it was Titans member Bunker who asked the question that was on my mind. How was he able to afford it? Apparently, Superboy doesn't quite know the difference between stealing and borrowing when it comes to money but don't worry this little plot point will be focused on more in volume #3. Anyway, Bunker decided to show Superboy that life is more than what you read in books it's about experiences. But their friendship moment was interrupted by a metal monster like being rampaging through the city and it's up to these two to stop it.
Still finding his way in New York, Superboy was hanging out with his landlady and heiress Dallas Sorrentino and her friends at a nightclub. But a somewhat fun evening came to a close when he had to stop a mind altering villain named Kiva who was going after Dallas.
The last issue in this volume was #0 and it featured a terribly conceived and written backstory that Harvest was telling one of his minions about clones attacking on Krypton and how it pertains to Superboy.
If you can overlook The Culling (issues #8 and #9) and issue #0, then the remainder of this volume was actually interesting to read. But the bad stuff is so disappointing that it left me wondering why they were even approved for publishing? However, the artwork was pretty good throughout so that sort of makes up for half the issues being a bad read.
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