{"id":16836,"date":"2013-06-14T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/?p=16836"},"modified":"2013-06-14T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:32:06","slug":"superman-vs-zod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/superman-vs-zod\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman VS. Zod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/superman-vs-zod\/action-comics-vol_-1-473-1977\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16837\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16837\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Action-Comics-Vol_-1-473-1977-e1371248268399.jpg?resize=660%2C411\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Action-Comics-Vol_-1-473-1977.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Action-Comics-Vol_-1-473-1977.jpg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greetings my fellow Nerds, how are you?\u00a0 Today is Flashback Friday as always but there is a twist.\u00a0 Today is also the day that Man of Steel opens worldwide in the theatres.\u00a0 I for one cannot wait until I see this film as you are, but until then, why not catch up on some Superman reading?\u00a0 The graphic novel Superman Vs. Zod should catch you up to speed on the origins of the main characters from the Man of Steel film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Superman vs. Zod is a collection of classic stories from the Superman franchise published by DC Comics.\u00a0 This trade contains stories from the following issues:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adventure Comics #283, 1961<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Action Comics #473, 1977<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Action Comics #548-549, 1983<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DC\u00a0 Comics Presents #97, 1986<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Action Comics Annual #10, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/superman-vs-zod\/ds001549\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16838\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16838\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS001549-e1371248243163.jpg?resize=660%2C406\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS001549.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS001549.jpg?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are a fan of Superman or even just a fan of the Villain Zod, this is a must have for your collection,\u00a0 It is fun to watch Clark \u00a0as he is just a mere boy learn about the Phantom Zone for the first time as his curiosity gets the better of him.\u00a0 It is also interesting to see the different phases Zod went through with his appearance. The core of Zod is the same no matter what he looks like, he wanted to lead a new Krypton and destroy those who stood in his way.\u00a0 I am sure the new film will keep this intact.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I give this trade an overall rating of\u00a0 8 out of 10.\u00a0 The only reason I didn&#8217;t give it a perfect score was that there are some Zod stories I feel that should have been included in this book.\u00a0 Who knows, maybe their is a sequel in the works.\u00a0 So enjoy the book, enjoy the movie, and as always, get your NERD on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/superman-vs-zod\/superman-vs-zod\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16839\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16839\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/superman-vs-zod-e1371248948191.jpg?resize=660%2C1018\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/superman-vs-zod.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/superman-vs-zod.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/superman-vs-zod.jpg?resize=583%2C900&amp;ssl=1 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings my fellow Nerds, how are you?\u00a0 Today is Flashback Friday as always but there is a twist.\u00a0 Today is also the day that Man &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,462],"tags":[29,132,369,1007,1510],"class_list":["post-16836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-comics","tag-reviews","tag-superman","tag-dc-comics","tag-derf","tag-zod","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS001549.jpg?fit=660%2C406&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35LLI-4ny","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16843,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions\/16843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}