The Last Days of Krypton Review


While running the site, reporting news, and the last two months, tonight I finished listening to the audiobook version of “The Last Days of Krypton” by Kevin J. Anderson.

I don’t read novels, the previous audiobook I bought was Superman Returns on CD, didn’t like it, cause it goes way too far in depth with everything and everyone, it got extremely boring.

Initial thought about this, it really comes through. As always, like Rob and I review Smallville episodes, movies, and comics, I’ll start with The Good.

It goes in depth with it’s main characters, Jor-El meeting Lara, Zod’s journey, and the climatic global civil war that was addressed in Season 7 of the Smallville TV series.

The arrival of an alien that sets the motions for the Kryptonians to take action from their law imposed exile.

Backstories for Zod’s disciples, Nam-Ek/Non and Aethyr/Ursa are created and their well done.

While Brainiac wasn’t the artifical intelligence on the planet, they use The Brain Interactive Contruct fraze, he’s was from his home planet that shrinks the city of Kandor like in the comics, but they humanize the villain to a degree. Thank Rao there was no monkey.

What I’d liked was Zod basically ruling the world, with a statue and portrait of himself, it’s great to hear for the amount of time that he has power.

The Gripes were that it does get boring in parts, like long descriptions of people doing this and that, I zone out, that just me not being use to this type of writing.

Lara’s backstory of her being an artist was kind of erksume, my brother came up with a stronger role for her character.

Another thing that Erked me was like the Bryan Singer film, it crams a little too much Superman references, most annoyling was Kryptopolis, come on, Kevin, you could’ve come up with a better name for a Kryptonian city then that.

And lastly The Rating, is this the quintessial story of the doomed planet of Krypton? Not really, but for what it is, it’s good.

I give it a 8 1/2.