Action Comics

[madmarva]

I finally got around to reading the latest three issues of Action Comics and I have to say, the first arc by Morrison and Morales is a pretty good Brianiac story.

While I probably still prefer Johns' Brianiac reboot from a few years ago, this story was good and reset characters like Lois and Jimmy and Luthor in an interesting way.

The arc was a bit derailed by the the fill-in story with the Legion of Super Heroes. Even though I liked that story, too, it did cost Morrison's initial arc some momentum.

This Superman isn't the one I'm familiar with in some ways, but I kind of like his new personality. He is good, but he's less the icon of perfection Superman developed into over the years, and he's not indecisive as Superman had also been boxed into in recent years. He's action-oriented, has a bit of populist streak and makes some mistakes.

There's some of that first-season George Reeves in the character, which is one of my favorite renditions of the character.

Yeah, I prefer the old Superman uniform and I don't like that a ton of my favorite stories aren't "in continuity" for the time being, but I'm enjoying the book, and would like to read what others think, pro and con.

[boynightwing]

I've enjoyed Action Comics so far too. I like Grant Morrison on Superman. I wish he'd stay away from Batman, but he knows his Superman. I know people were all upset about the jeans and tshirt thing he was sporting for awhile but is it really all that different to what they were doing in Smallville towards the end?

I like that he isn't invulnerable completely and that he's still struggling to fly. When the government captured him, I was genuinely worried for him. Which is a good thing. Especially for a Superman comic.

I also liked that the "armor" has an origin even if I don't really like the new suit all that much. But they showed that it can change shape and colour so if they wanted to go back to the red underwear, they could.

[thunderbolt]

I read number 1 and it didn't leave me wanting more, and I really liked his All Star and Batman runs. It just seemed flat and bogged down in the Nu52 bs.

[madmarva]

Thunderbolt, I would have agreed with you after an issue, but the story really came together for me in the final two issues.

I have a feeling the people that waited on the trade will find it a pretty good story if you can get past the new 52 bias, which isn't easy.

Boynightwing, I didn't mind the T-shirt and jeans thing, although I know there are some who don't like it. I just don't see why there was any reason to redesign the Superman uniform. There was nothing was wrong with it. That being said the armor aspect of the story was fine and a better more modern solution than wearing the costume under his clothes.

As for the point about the t-shirt and jeans not being so different from Smallville you're right. But for old readers like me, it's one thing for a TV show to stray from what "we" would consider standard continuity and it's another for the comics to do it.

To a comics fan of my generation, a movie or TV show or cartoon is a version of the character, while what's printed in the comics is the gospel or "the truth."

I think the problem many have with the DCnU is that DC isn't so much giving us a new version as much as changing "the truth" about these characters we've grown up with.

Samurainoir made a great point about the original Crisis on Infinite Earths in 85 and 86. There was a fallout of readers. I bought many silver-age comics from a lady in her 40s at the time that sold off her collection that reached back into the 50s because of the changes DC made.

I think the younger the reader the easier it to accept such changes and go with the flow. There's not as much invested. Neither is right or wrong. It's about taste and how you want to spend your money on entertainment.

The hard part for folks that have been reading comics nearly all their lives on a monthly basis, the comics are more than just entertainment.

[The Toyroom]

I bowed out after issue 6... Dropped the Perez "Superman" after issue 3...

[madmarva]

I picked up my first issue of Supergirl, No. 8, since issue No. 2 because of the Perez art. The art's great and they are reworking Silver Banshee's origin. Wasn't bad, but not enough to pick up the book without Perez art.