It also serves Jackson well by lending its title to this collection, as across nine tercets Jackson goes from the ideal situation of how the speaker would be saved by Superman in a bank robbery to his actual saving by Batman.
The titular poem in Missing You, Metropolis opens with a bit of narration from Batman as penned by Jeph Loeb, and while it is surely damning with faint praise, “Missing You, Metropolis” may very well be the best piece of writing to spring out of Loeb’s painfully formulaic Batman stories. Side A: Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson This time up, we’re looking at the twin superhero poetry collections Missing You, Metropolis and MultiVerse. Welcome to Split Seven-Inch, a new feature of Loser City wherein we examine two pieces of media that are not necessarily closely related with each other yet still have something interesting in common.
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