DC Comics Releases Preview of Max Landis's Superman: American Alien

10/16/2015 03:00 pm EDT

DC Comics has released an exclusive preview of Superman: American Alien #1 from writer Max Landis and artist Nick Dragotta.

The first part of a seven-issue miniseries, this tale opens on a look at Clark Kent's childhood that DC promises will be unlike any "origin" we've seen before for the Last Son of Krypton.

You can see the preview pages and solicitation text below.

Hollywood screenwriter and Eisner Award nominee Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) joins forces with top comics artists including Jock, Francis Manapul and Jae Lee to bring you SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN, a 7-issue miniseries chronicling the life of Clark Kent and his development into the archetypal hero he will eventually become. But these are not the stories of the iconic "Superman" as you know him, but of the soft-spoken, charming, often-funny Kansas farm-boy behind the Man of Steel. With the tone of each issue ranging from heartwarming and simple, to frighteningly gritty and violent, to sexy, sun-kissed and funny, SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN is unlike anything you've seen before.

In this first issue, superstar artist Nick Dragotta (East of West, Fantastic Four) illustrates the story of Jonathan and Martha Kent as they struggle to deal with their 12-year-old son's latest quirk—he's been floating up into the air, sometimes hundreds of feet!

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