Adventures of Superman #617

Aug 2003 · DC · 2.25 USD; 3.75 CAD

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“Rather, Rinse, Repeat”

Something unsettling lurks behind the smiling faces on Lee Bermejo's striking cover for Adventures of Superman #617 (August 2003): a skull-faced figure wearing the Superman crest looms in icy blue behind two sharply dressed, grinning individuals who together hold out a copy of an Encyclopedia Universal. The contrast between their cheerful, almost conspiratorial expressions and the towering, skeletal presence at their backs gives the whole image a deeply eerie undertone. With Joe Casey writing and Charlie Adlard on interior art, "Rather, Rinse, Repeat" promises a Superman story with a sharp, unsettling edge.

writer Joe Casey · artist, inker Charlie Adlard · colorist Tanya Horie · colorist Richard Horie · letterer Comic Craft · cover Lee Bermejo

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Cast · 8 characters

Alice White Imra Ardeen Jimmy Olsen Lex Luthor Lois Lane Perry White Rokk Krinn Superman

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writer Joe Casey

artist, inker Charlie Adlard

colorist Tanya Horie

colorist Richard Horie

letterer Comic Craft

cover pencils, inks Lee Bermejo

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Mr. Mxyzptlk has split into two beings, the Mxy Twins. Now these twins want to sell the Universal Encyclopedia to anyone, even if they don't want to listen. When Superman refuses to buy it, they remove the gravity from Earth.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).