Scans: Action Comics #7

[mithen]

Action Comics #7:  Written by GRANT MORRISON;  Pencils by RAGS MORALES

Action Comics #8 comes out this week, so I wanted to get the summary of last month up before it came out!  When #6 left off Metropolis had been stolen and Superman has asked General Lane for help in getting the bottled city off Brainiac's ship.  At this point in Superman's

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[queen0fcups]

Oh my gosh this is exciting. From what I've seen of the scans from you, Action is really the only good thing to come out of the New 52.

UNF. DAT CHEST.

And while I find it oddly convenient that Braniac just happened to leave full sized versions of clothes laying around, as I learned from my first-ever watching of Batman:Brave and the Bold last night, suspension of disbelief is something of a requirement in this fandom.

[mithen]

From what I've seen of the scans from you, Action is really the only good thing to come out of the New 52.

Well, it depends on how you look at it. In terms of titles, Action and Demon Knights are the only ones that leave me consistently excited for next month--but there weren't many before the reboot either. Is the new version of the Superman title better than Grounded? A thousand times yes. ;) That is, in general canon is a big messy churn of crap at all times, and the reboot definitely hasn't changed that, it's just moved the crap around a bit. :P

I learned from my first-ever watching of Batman:Brave and the Bold last night, suspension of disbelief is something of a requirement in this fandom.

First-ever? OUTRAGEOUS!

Sorry, couldn't resist. That show is the reason why I'm so thrilled that it looks like Ryan Choi is going to be back from the dead! Somehow I don't think he and Aquaman are going to have chummy adventures in JLA, but I shall imagine they do!

[queen0fcups]

I'm mostly sad that all the Bat-titles seem to have gone rapidly downhill. Though yes, this Superman kicks ass and I love it. I wish I could get a hold of Demon Knights, my only familiarity with it is from your scans, but it looks so awesome. Think they'll do a TPB of it?

And yes! I was given a DVD with five episodes for valentines day (my other half knows how to pick a present!) and so we finally watched last night. OUTRAGEOUS indeed! The first one we saw was the one with Aquaman and the Atom in Batman's bloodstream, and I think we died laughing/squee'ing.

[mithen]

The sudden downward turn of the Bat-books has made me sad! I've been really pondering it lately...my growing theory is that Bruce tends, narratively, to go through a very predictable character arc in most stories: he starts off competent and stable, then has to suffer some big reverse that makes him drive everyone off and sink into depression/paranoia, so that he can emerge from it stronger and re-establish ties with everyone who cares about him, restored at the end. The difficulty is that I tend to set all of my stories within the high-point of the arcs. :P I often get told that people enjoy how I write Bruce "out of character" as a sane and stable person, but he's well-adjusted and together pretty much at the beginning and end of every canon story! That's fine for fic-writing purposes, but it means that in almost every Batman comic story arc there's this bewildering and painful time in the middle of the story where he acts what I would consider OOC, but is basically just his usual character arc, no more or less OOC than the

[starsandsea]

Oh, this looks really awesome! I'm really loving this arc... And Superman's new costume is very cool and certainly has lots of possibilities... ;)

Annnnnd, I'm also kind of mesmerized by the fact that Clark apparently strips in front of the entire city of Metropolis. O_O I assume that the base of the city keeps anything below the waistline out of the line of sight? Maybe? Otherwise Metropolis is getting a show it will not soon forget, I'm sure.

*falls over laughing* I'm sure it would have made a lot of them very happy... :p

I'm really looking forward to seeing how Clark learns to fly - it's fascinating they haven't given him that power yet.

[mithen]

*falls over laughing* I'm sure it would have made a lot of them very happy... :p

IT'S A GIANT NAKED SUPERMAN!

I really need him to fly! I know Morrison is doing it because he actually learned to fly quite late in the comic books, but augh, come on, he needs to get off the ground more! *bites nails*

[ilovetobefree]

OK, pause for slight eyeroll at the second panel and the increasing tendency to write adult men as talking like fourteen-year-olds (JLA being the worst offender). "Nothing's impossible" is pretty classic Superman, though.
I know. But I just LOVED Clark’s: "I never had to run faster until today." and "Nothing’s impossible." :D

This is the place from my dream.
Oh Clark *hugs him*

Meanwhile, back in the bottled city, Lois, Jimmy and Lex squabble about what's going on until we get a nice new take on the classic line:
AWWWW! The S shield!

Brainiac decides to pull the old "nature or nurture argument" with Superman, not that Clark is buying it:
Yeah! ”All these people are under my protection. Every living thing!” YESSS!

And the image of the people of Metropolis literally standing in his shadow.
Totally AWWWWW! :)

Okay I made my choice.
That was awesome! :)

And... the suit! OMG!!! :D

And the adorable little peek of his briefs above his jeans waistline!
Mmmmmm... :D

Annnnnd, I'm also kind of mesmerized by the fact that

[mithen]

On the whole, I think Morrtison gets Clark's dialogue just right--it just seems like in every issue there's one line where he's like "Oh yeah, I have to write him as YOUNG, so I'll make him say one weirdly dicky thing." :P Because usually he's wonderful--especially at the end here, I love seeing him angry and protective like that. :)

:lol I was like - 'OMG! I rather don’t want to know the details' - seeing the explanation. :D

LOL, I know! DC writers, he's worn his costume under his clothes for seventy years now, trust me, we don't need some silly explanation! It always amuses me when writers seem to think we need some kind of "scientific explanation" for things that are clearly myths and legends...

I'm going to be traveling (we have an overnight camp with our new first-year students tonight) so I might not be able to read Action right away, I'm unhappy! *bites nails* But it's my top priority when I get somewhere I can download my comics... I hope it ends well!

[ilovetobefree]

It always amuses me when writers seem to think we need some kind of "scientific explanation" for things that are clearly myths and legends...
I think it could be a reaction to discussions of fans on the Internet. I saw some fans talked about Clark’s costume. Some fans always complained it was silly that he wore the costume under his clothes (I don’t know why - true there were moments we saw a bit of his costume when he forgot to button his shirt properly, but most of them lead to funny situations, IMO :)), so DC probably wanted to change it and came with that explanation.

I feel for you about the overnight camp. I wish you have a nice trip with your students and crosses fingers for you to be able to get the new comics downloaded soon. *hugs*

[iparadox_cn]

Action #8 is even awesome I would say! And yeah it did end well in my opinion. Superman finally became Superman! [NO spoilers=P

And btw, it seems Kryptonian has been changed? cannot understand it *weep*

[l_junkie]

*O* This youthful proletariat Superman is so delicious!

[mithen]

Isn't he? Now and then he hits a false note, but most of the time I really like the brashness and the youth of him. He's yummy. :)