The first collection of GRANT MORRISON'S epic run on ACTION COMICS, with art by RAGS MORALES, ANDY KUBERT and more! - In these startling tales, the people of METROPOLIS turn on their new champion! Plus, the SUPERMAN of today and the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
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"Believe the hype: Grant Morrison went and wrote the single best issue of Superman these eyes have ever read. This rebellious, working man's hero is a different guy from any Man of Steel most of us have seen before."
--"USA Today"
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"A ripping read."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"Entertaining."
-- YAHOO! Associated Content
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"A solid superhero comic with good action."
--"Time Out Chicago"
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"It's fresh air. I like this all-too-human Superman, and I think a lot of you will, too."
--Scripps Howard News Service
"Casts the character in a new light, opens up fresh storytelling possibilities, and pushes it all forward with dynamic Rags Morales art. I loved it."
--"The Onion "AV Club
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"With a heavy dose of philosophy tied to his characterizations, "Action Comics" is already showing signs of being a typical Grant Morrison yarn. For those of you who aren't familiar with his work, that's a ringing endorsement."
--IGN
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"Captures the spirit of what makes "Action Comics" great for the modern age.... Strong, well-executed superhero imagery and storytelling that flows effortlessly."
--Comic Book Resources, Five-Star Review
"A different and welcomed twist to Superman."
--ComicVine
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"Brassy and brash."
-- io9
--"USA Today"
" "
"A ripping read."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"Entertaining."
-- YAHOO! Associated Content
" "
"A solid superhero comic with good action."
--"Time Out Chicago"
" "
"It's fresh air. I like this all-too-human Superman, and I think a lot of you will, too."
--Scripps Howard News Service
"Casts the character in a new light, opens up fresh storytelling possibilities, and pushes it all forward with dynamic Rags Morales art. I loved it."
--"The Onion "AV Club
" "
"With a heavy dose of philosophy tied to his characterizations, "Action Comics" is already showing signs of being a typical Grant Morrison yarn. For those of you who aren't familiar with his work, that's a ringing endorsement."
--IGN
" "
"Captures the spirit of what makes "Action Comics" great for the modern age.... Strong, well-executed superhero imagery and storytelling that flows effortlessly."
--Comic Book Resources, Five-Star Review
"A different and welcomed twist to Superman."
--ComicVine
" "
" "
"Brassy and brash."
-- io9
About the Author
Writer Grant Morrison is known for his innovative work on comics from the graphic novel "Arkham Asylum" to acclaimed runs on "Animal Man" and "Doom Patrol," as well as his subversive creator owned titles such as "The Invisibles, Seaguy" and "WE3." He has also written best-selling runs on "JLA," "Seven Soldiers Of Victory" and "New X-Men" and recently helped to reinvent the DC Universe in "All-star Superman, 52 and Batman."
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Noel
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Format:Hardcover
Grant Morrison's re-imagining of Action Comics takes its cue from the 1938 comics where Superman first appeared. In those comics like in this one Superman can't fly yet, he doesn't have all of the powers we're used to seeing in him, and seems to always be lifting heavy objects like cars or wrecking balls. Also, as he's a young man (early 20s) he isn't as wise or experienced as the Superman of, say, "All Star Superman" (also written by Morrison) where he displayed a profound understanding of humanity and life in the universe. Here he is an exuberant young man energised at living alone for the first time in a city and realising that he is the most powerful being on the planet. He's using that power to make things better for everyone without a real plan in his head - he just keeps going, keeps moving: Action Comics!
There's a lot to like in this book with Grant Morrison at the helm. His masterful book "All Star Superman" was a defining book for the character and showed Morrison understood Superman like few writers have ever done. That said, "Action Comics" isn't as brilliant as "All Star" but has much to recommend it. The set pieces are wonderful like the Krypton sequence where we see Kal-El's parents prepare their only son to be saved from their utopian dying planet. Krypton is really beautifully imagined here looking like a delicate cross between fantasy and sci-fi. Morrison gives the reader an impression of a larger, developed society and culture with overtones of Earth's current environmental problems, largely ignored by too many people.... Read more ›
There's a lot to like in this book with Grant Morrison at the helm. His masterful book "All Star Superman" was a defining book for the character and showed Morrison understood Superman like few writers have ever done. That said, "Action Comics" isn't as brilliant as "All Star" but has much to recommend it. The set pieces are wonderful like the Krypton sequence where we see Kal-El's parents prepare their only son to be saved from their utopian dying planet. Krypton is really beautifully imagined here looking like a delicate cross between fantasy and sci-fi. Morrison gives the reader an impression of a larger, developed society and culture with overtones of Earth's current environmental problems, largely ignored by too many people.... Read more ›
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Gareth Simon
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
This is the latest first adventure of Superman in the New 52 universe, and it really is very good; the story itself is an excellent mix of homage to the original Siegel & Shuster Action Comics and the most recent Superman of Geoff Johns, but filtered through Grant Morrison's own vision. The art and script is of a matching quality to the story itself, and, although we know it is not the `real' origin, just one of at least 52, it manages to keep the best of the rest (and appears to leave the field open for the latest Superboy clone to have an uncontested claim to the title).
The story begins with a mysterious caped vigilante tackling civic corruption and urban oppression of the poor, until General Lane of the US army brings in a civilian technical consultant (who looks just like that chap from TV's Smallville) to capture him for study. Luthor brings Superman down by shooting him with a bullet train. The army already knows more about Superman than he does himself, having possession of the rocket (and a fake `alien' body planted by Pa Kent in a backup story). General Lane's army unit is building a `Steel Soldier' combat suit to tackle the alien menace they are expecting to face, only to find, once they have captured Superman, that the true enemy is in fact Brainiac, come looking for the last surviving fragments of Krypton for his collection, viz and to whit - Superman. However, after lots of running around and fighting, both parties are reconciled and team up to rescue Metropolis from Brainiac, in the course of which Superman finds an invulnerable Kryptonian costume on Brainiac's ship...... Read more ›
The story begins with a mysterious caped vigilante tackling civic corruption and urban oppression of the poor, until General Lane of the US army brings in a civilian technical consultant (who looks just like that chap from TV's Smallville) to capture him for study. Luthor brings Superman down by shooting him with a bullet train. The army already knows more about Superman than he does himself, having possession of the rocket (and a fake `alien' body planted by Pa Kent in a backup story). General Lane's army unit is building a `Steel Soldier' combat suit to tackle the alien menace they are expecting to face, only to find, once they have captured Superman, that the true enemy is in fact Brainiac, come looking for the last surviving fragments of Krypton for his collection, viz and to whit - Superman. However, after lots of running around and fighting, both parties are reconciled and team up to rescue Metropolis from Brainiac, in the course of which Superman finds an invulnerable Kryptonian costume on Brainiac's ship...... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Sicdrone
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is definetly worth a try, the storyline is great, very enjoyable, the characters are likable and funny when needed, the art is fantastic, it’s good to look at. I recommend this book to anyone who loves comics or just interested in getting to know the genre.
By Geekface
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I didn't hold out much hope of the new 52 comic books being any good. It always seemed like a bad idea, but with Grant Morrison writing Superman again I was expecting great things, I certainly got what I wanted with this trade. Never has Superman been written so brilliantly well.
I know the DCU 52 idea might put off long term readers but anyone new, especially after Man of Steel, wanting to read Superman comic books 52 is a great start, no longer do readers need to have thirty or seventy five years of knowledge behind them.
I loved this book.
I know the DCU 52 idea might put off long term readers but anyone new, especially after Man of Steel, wanting to read Superman comic books 52 is a great start, no longer do readers need to have thirty or seventy five years of knowledge behind them.
I loved this book.
By Wild Bill
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Love the story, the pace of the story seemed a bit rushed but it had plenty of thrills and the art is very dynamic and the colour seems to fly off the page. Impressed with the quality of the paper too. Not entirely happy with the new younger rendition of Superman - he looks more like Superboy! Somethings never changes Luthor is still an arse. Nice one DC.
By Ryan
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Same story of how baby Kal El is transported to earth after his home planet of Krypton is destroyed. However it has afew spins of how he develops his powers and how he came about the suit in an epic fight with Brainiac. Worth a read if you love the Man of Steel.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I tried to be open minded about the Superman reboot. I decided to wait and read this as a collection rather than downloading the comics individually, which is a positive about the new 52 as it makes the individual comics much more accesible in the UK. I found this book deeply dissapointing. For me the biggest thing that makes Superman different from other superheroes is that he is the ultimate family man, a mommys boy, whatever you want to call him. The decline in Super-sales and popularity over the past 20 years has coincided with the rise of popularity of darker heroes like Wolverine and particularly Batman, and thus it seems like DC have tried to darken Superman. Ma and Pa are now both dead (like every other super hero) and Superman is far more isolated and more of an outsider. This just isnt for me. If I wanted to read brooding I'd read Batman, If I wanted to see somone threatening criminals I'd read Wolverine. When I wanted to read about hope and somone who could be an example to us all with his old fashioned attitudes to family and life I used to read Superman. The story is also rather tedious considering the number of Superman origin stories DC have thrown at us over the last 15 years. As a big fan of Grant Morrisons work on Batman I expected this to be great, but it lacks his usual innventiveness. Supermans first meeting with the legion is presented in a far less vibrant and fun way than the recent Geoff Johns and Gary Frank 'Superman and the legion of super heroes', and that whole chapter just feels like a less-good rehash of that. Steel is also introduced ludicrously early, and with no ties to the (as yet non existant) Superman family.
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