The second volume of J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis’ re-imagining of the Man of Steel in Superman: Earth One is successfully able to raise the bar from its predecessor, which readers need not revisit before cracking this book open.
Admittedly, I wasn’t keen on Superman: Earth One Vol. 1 (nor was the official IGN Comics review), but Vol. 2 is a marked improvement. Though it still suffers from most of the same problems as it did the first time around, the positives are far more beneficial to the greater whole. The primary attraction to Vol. 2 is the larger philosophical questions raised by the presence of Superman and the personal and professional tribulations of Clark Kent.