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Ive been thinking about picking Action Comics up, is it a good read. I do enjoy Morrison but I was turned off by something in issue 1.
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Its good but not great. It takes a while to get going, so you may benefit from picking up the trade than reading monthly. And the art is definitely a turnoff a lot of the times.
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So far the Banshee arc is the best the book has been but really we're 9 issues in at this point and I can't say we've really learned anything yet. It's just way too decompressed for me.Originally posted by W.West View Post
The first arc is pretty solid but nothing spectacular imo, personally I think it's the best book out of the entire Superman line, but let's be honest the other books really aren't that great.Originally posted by VeesFistOfDeath View Post
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Superboy #10 Preview
Written by: Scott Lobdell
Art by: Sebastian Fiumara
Cover by: Scott Clark
Color/B&W: Color
Page Count: 32
On Sale Date: Jun 13 2012
• WONDER GIRL, SOLSTICE, RED ROBIN, KID FLASH and BUNKER all guest-star in a story that connects to this month’s TEEN TITANS #10.
• Don’t miss SUPERBOY and WONDER GIRL, lost in an ancient world – with no adult supervision!Comment
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Is the parallel worlds stuff any good or has that issue not been released yet?Comment
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With the launch of “The New 52″, DC Comics has proven that they are willing to shake things up at a moment’s notice to create the best stories they possibly can. They’re trying everything they can in an effort to be the most dynamic comics publisher in the world.
Word came to me late last week that a brand new team will take over one of DC’s biggest characters, Superman. They announce officially tonight, but we have the scoop in advance.
Scott Lobdell will be taking over the writing duties and Kenneth Rocafort will take on the pencilling.
Lobdell is a veteran of the comics industry, well known for his work with the X-Men in the 90s, his work with the Hardy Boys graphic novels, and, more recently, writing multiple titles in DC’s New 52.
I got a chance to talk to Scott Lobdell about his upcoming run on Superman. For a guy who is a sometimes stand-up comic, the answers are equally hilarious and sometimes vague.
Bryan Young: So, are you guys on this title for the long haul?
Scott Lobdell: Well the last time I was on a flagship title I stayed on for about five years! So trust me when I say that I am totally committed to writing SUPERMAN for at least twice that long.
BY: It’s just that it seems like some of the New 52 creators have been playing musical chairs…
SL: That would certainly make it more fun if we all got our assignments through musical chairs! The thought of Dan Didio with his hand on the arm of the Victrola as we all danced around waiting to leap on a cover taped to a chair…!
But seriously, television series are launched all the time and either there are behind the scene changes or time slots moved or characters recast or shows are cancelled altogether. I think that DC, being at once nimble and determined to make adjustments throughout such a massive undertaking like the NEW 52, is a sign of the company’s strength and not a weakness.
BY: So you have long term plans for the book?
SL: I don’t work that way. Just like I could not have imagined a year ago that I’d be writing the world’s most famous super hero… I like the stories of the characters to mirror the same sense spontaneity and unpredictability that define us in “real life”.
Yes, I turned in a twenty-five page pitch for the series that examined every aspect of Superman, his friends, his enemies, and over a dozen story ideas… but I’ve found over the years that the series often takes on a life of its own once the characters and the conflicts and the interactions start to show up on the page.
Just imagine how boring it would be if you sat down and told me exactly how your life was going to play out every month for the next twelve months — who you were going to meet, what you were going to say, how they were going to act, what super powers you were going to use to defeat them? Then imagine the likelihood that your life would play out exactly the way you predicted it would over the course of the next twelve months.
BY: In an economy where readers are being forced to stretch their comic book dollar, how is your Superman going to distinguish himself from the other Superman books?
SL: Forced? I don’t like to think we’re forcing anyone to buy anything… I like to think we’re providing readers with an opportunity to share an epic story rooted in a character that — some seven decades later — stands head and shoulders above all the other super heroes that have come after him.
As far as comparing Superman to the other books, I would say apples and oranges — if those apples and oranges had a bright red “S” on their chests! Grant [Morrison] does that great retro-freshness he does and Geoff [Johns] gives us an unbridled action movie every month — I’m determined to give you a Superman that surprises you from issue to issue.
That’s not hyperbole, either, when I finished the plot for the first issue I gasped!
And then I gasped again when editorial approved it!
BY: Will you be carrying on the continuity, or pulling a new New 52 and tweaking things slightly?
SL: “Pulling a new New 52!? I love your questions, Bryan!
Let me say that there will be tweaking aplenty — but I think it is going to be in terms of tone and attitude and not in history or continuity. We have no plans to reveal Lois is Superman’s daughter from an alternate future or that Perry White is actually an amnesic Jonathon Kent who has been in witness protection.
But yes, you’ll see from the very first issue — in fact, even in the Annual and the Zero issue before it — a Superman that is going to feel very of the moment.
BY: What is your favorite thing about the Superman character and how do you guys hope to bring that to book?
SL: I like the sheer uniqueness of Superman. The fact he is stuck on a planet of six billion people — that he is the self appointed champion of those people — but that he will never be one of them? How awesome is that? If it were me I would probably take a deep breath and fly into space and find a planet where people were more like me (could you imagine what that would look like) — maybe a planet that wasn’t so reliant on what I did every day. But not Kal El. He’s there day in and day out putting his life on the line for a people that alternately put him on a pedestal or steer clear of the most famous alien on Earth.
Again, there are over six billion people on the plane, and only one Superman.
(And when you consider that the other two “supers’ are a girl who thinks you’ve gone totally native and a clone of you who was created to be the world’s greatest living weapon — he has more in common with the rest of us than he does with his own ‘family’.)
That said, too often SUPERMAN is seen by readers as “too perfect” — that he always makes the right choice. But the truth is, every choice has consequences and when all the choices you make are super choices you have super consequences.
The very first issue is going to see the results of several choices which are going to have ramifications for months to come!
BY: What villain are you itching to dust off and introduce to the new 52?
SL: All of them! Seriously, there are so many amazing characters in Superman’s rogue’s gallery and we’ve barely scratched the surface of them in the first ten months of the New 52!
That said, most of the tweaking you’ll see will probably be in those villains. We want to update them, but not in a “here, put on this quantum powered costume!” or “You would look scarier in leather” — but more in a way that “What does this particular villain represent to Superman? How would he or she be imagined if we created them today and not twenty or sixty years ago.”
The idea of an insane Superman should be the most horrifying thing anyone of us can imagine, for example, but when that person winds up being a cute and cuddly Bizarro, it takes the villain out of super villain.
We plan to change that.
When Superman puts on his cape it is only because it is a job for Superman. The days of bank robbers and men tossing toys at him are behind us!
BY: Do you have free reign to modify the mythos as you go? Or are you tied into what we currently know now about Superman in the new 52?
SL: I will have to let you know. So far I’ve pitched some really out there takes and stories and no one has asked to reel it in — so I’m note sure what my limits are!
Even when I was writing the pitch I would laugh at myself for pitching a particular idea — knowing full well they would never let me do this to Clark. But then they said “Congratulations” without ever adding a “…but, of course, we’re not going to let you do that, Scott!”
So, so far, I guess I have free reign… but maybe only because I haven’t come to the end of my leash!
BY: What comic books are you reading currently that people should check out?
SL: I am a huge fan of team books and I find that TEEN TITANS is maybe the newest and freshest take on teen super hero books on the market today. And RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS is every bit as amazing and anarchistic as the fans proclaim it is — I would place it in the top five of the industry’s best books!
In fact, I am willing to say publically that if you adore RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS (and, hey, who doesn’t?!)… you are going to love the little red boxers off of SUPERMAN!
(It’s important to note that Lobdell and Rocafort are the team behind Red Hood and the Outlaws.)
On that title, Lobdell saw some level of controversy for turning Starfire from a female role model into a sex object. Despite that change, the book is well-written and funny. It follows the exploits of Jason Todd (the Robin that died) and his band of misfits as they do “good” around the world. He’s also been writing Teen Titans, which is the only book that features Tim Drake (the third Robin and current Red Robin). He has completely different writing voices appropriate for each of the books, so him writing Superman will come with true surprises and shouldn’t be raising any red flags.
DC Comics will have more details later today about the book.Comment
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Superman September 2012 Solicitations
ACTION COMICS #0
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Backup story written by SHOLLY FISCH
Art and cover by BEN OLIVER
Backup story art by CAFU
Variant cover by RAGS MORALES
1:100 B&W Variant cover by BEN OLIVER
On sale SEPTEMBER 5 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
Combo pack edition: $4.99 US
• Don’t miss “The Boy Who Stole Superman’s Cape”
• Grant Morrison weaves the history of Clark Kent’s early days in Metropolis!
This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue.
SUPERMAN #0
Written by SCOTT LOBDELL
Art and cover by KENNETH ROCAFORT
1:25 B&W Variant cover by KENNETH ROCAFORT
On sale SEPTEMBER 26 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• Welcome the new creative team of Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort as they take us back to the days when Jor-El learned the truth about Krypton’s imminent destruction!
• Plus: More on the introduction of the Eradicators!
SUPERBOY #0
Written by TOM DeFALCO
Art and cover by R.B. SILVA and ROB LEAN
On sale SEPTEMBER 12 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• Mysteries are revealed as we learn Harvest’s reasons for creating Kryptonian clones!
• This bloody chapter of Superboy’s history ties directly into issue #1 of the series – and the future of the entire DC Universe!
SUPERGIRL #0
Written by MICHAEL GREEN and MIKE JOHNSON
Art and cover by MAHMUD ASRAR
On sale SEPTEMBER 19 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• On the eve of Krypton’s destruction, who sent Supergirl from Krypton to Earth – and why? The answer is not what you think!
• Plus: Learn the answer to a mystery that’s been driving Supergirl mad for months: Who shot her father, Zor-El?Comment
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Lobdell on Superman
After what he did on Superboy and his big event "The Culling" I have zero faith in this guy.Comment
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^^ Really. I actually enjoyed a good chunk of that. I was pretty against Teen Titans and Superboy at the begining but am enjoying them more and more with each issue.I LOVE conspiracy theorists. They are like human versions of the cymbal clapping, dancing monkeys. No one takes them all that seriously and they get bored with them after about 10 minutes.Comment
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It's been released (issue #9), I rather liked it, thought it was the best Superman related thing I've read since All Star.Originally posted by VeesFistOfDeath View Post
Jurgens Wraps SUPERMAN as Lobdell Takes OverComment
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I'm still trying to figure out WTF is going on in those titles. But that's me, in a few months there will be another creative team on Superman because this is going to be a hit either. I swear this guy still think its '91 and he's writing X-Men.Originally posted by Lantern A-train View PostComment
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Why do they all say #1 on them if it's ment to be #0 and why have they brought back the old DC logo on the comics?
Originally posted by IonFanOriginally posted by Big Daddy CaesarOriginally posted by QuakerComment
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The motif for the #0 covers so far seems to be the character(s) bursting through the old #1 covers. Keep in mind that these are not the final designs.Originally posted by Deadpool View PostComment
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I wouldn't mind seeing Ben Oliver replace Rags on Action.Comment
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