Scans: Action Comics 8
Action Comics #8: Written by GRANT MORRISON; Pencils by RAGS MORALES
So the first arc of the new Action Comics came to an end in a general satisfying if somewhat predictable fashion: a big showdown between Brainiac and Metal-0, the saving of Metropolis. There are a couple of neat little additions: I rather like the idea of Superman's first Fortress of Solitude being in space, where he guards the miniaturized cities that he saved. (Also, this way we finally have Kandor back as a Kryptonian bottle city, something that hasn't existed in comics in any understandable form for decades).
There is much punchy-punchy which can be skipped unless Superman is being heroic and handsome:
Okay, mostly I just really love how Superman looks when he says "You're barely a man!" up there. Morales isn't my favorite Superman artist, but that's a nice panel.
Indeed, Superman does not stop or give up, and finally defeats Brainiac:
The issue and arc ends with Superman at a press conference being given the key to the city, a full-fledged Savior of Metropolis at last. Lois asks where he goes to be alone, and the scene cuts to Superman flying up to the spaceship and practicing his Kryptonian as he looks down on the Earth:
Nope, I haven't the faintest what the Kryptonian means, it seems to be up to us to decide. :)
It was a pretty straightforward arc, mostly free of the more meta loopiness and energy that Morrison tends to put into his stories (although the next issue, #9, makes up for that with a bang as it re-introduces the multiverse and shows us a world where Superman was created by idealistic dreamers who then sold the idea to a giant corporation and watched in horror as their beautiful idea was turned into a banal, vulgar corporate brand to make money).
So the first arc of the new Action Comics came to an end in a general satisfying if somewhat predictable fashion: a big showdown between Brainiac and Metal-0, the saving of Metropolis. There are a couple of neat little additions: I rather like the idea of Superman's first Fortress of Solitude being in space, where he guards the miniaturized cities that he saved. (Also, this way we finally have Kandor back as a Kryptonian bottle city, something that hasn't existed in comics in any understandable form for decades).
There is much punchy-punchy which can be skipped unless Superman is being heroic and handsome:
Okay, mostly I just really love how Superman looks when he says "You're barely a man!" up there. Morales isn't my favorite Superman artist, but that's a nice panel.
Indeed, Superman does not stop or give up, and finally defeats Brainiac:
The issue and arc ends with Superman at a press conference being given the key to the city, a full-fledged Savior of Metropolis at last. Lois asks where he goes to be alone, and the scene cuts to Superman flying up to the spaceship and practicing his Kryptonian as he looks down on the Earth:
Nope, I haven't the faintest what the Kryptonian means, it seems to be up to us to decide. :)
It was a pretty straightforward arc, mostly free of the more meta loopiness and energy that Morrison tends to put into his stories (although the next issue, #9, makes up for that with a bang as it re-introduces the multiverse and shows us a world where Superman was created by idealistic dreamers who then sold the idea to a giant corporation and watched in horror as their beautiful idea was turned into a banal, vulgar corporate brand to make money).