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Review: Action Comics #12

Grant Morrison and Rags Morales hit it out of the park with Action Comics #12. This issue goes from 0-60 from page one, and doesn’t slow down, even to the last page. Morales’ art is phenomenal and kinetic, and M...

by Austin Shirey

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A Dummy’s Guide to DC Comics’ “New 52″ Superman Titles**

**SPECIAL MEA CULPA EDITION FORWARD** Many of you have no doubt already read this Dummy’s Guide, and some of you have already responded to my saying Action Comics is not worth your time or money. I have taken your opini...

by Austin Shirey

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Review: Action Comics #11

Grant Morrison is finally back on track with Action Comics #11. This is the issue fans have been waiting for – it’s linear, it makes sense, it isn’t choppy, and the story adds a lot to the Clark Kent/Superma...

by Austin Shirey

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Nimrod the Hunter's Next Target...Clark Kent!

Review: Action Comics #10

If I had to choose one word to describe this month’s issue of Action Comics, written by Grant Morrison with art by Rags Morales, I’d have to choose choppy. I’ll try to give you an idea of why that would be th...

by Austin Shirey

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Required Reading #4: Identity Crisis!

Comic books get a lot of flack, and are often labeled “kids stuff”, what with the flashy, eye-grabbing outfits, superpowers, and catchphrases (“Up and Atom!”). But every once and a while, a story comes o...

by James Victor Von Halstead

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Action Comics #6 Review

The Superman from 5 years in the future has traveled to the past with the help of the Legion of Superheroes, to face a threat to the Man of Steels origins. Who are the K-men and what did they take from the rocket ship that brou...

by Suuperman

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Review: Action Comics #4

We’re in the fourth issue of the relaunched Action Comics, and Superman (who has just started his crimefighting career) is facing his first supervillain of the series. Brainiac has come to miniaturize Metropolis, and th...

by Seth Jacob

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Three Things You Need to Know: Action Comics!

Hello Comic Booked cohorts, here is your daily dose of DC. Continuing with their DCnU issue three celebration, DC is filling us in on three things that we need to know about Action Comics. This is a good one. If you have been r...

by Jason Padua

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Review: Action Comics #3

Grant Morrison’s take on Superman as a socially conscious superhero is a refreshing update on the Man of Steel. It seems like the main thrust of his run on Action Comics is not to pit Superman against increasingly power...

by Seth Jacob

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Review: Action Comics #2

I know that there are mixed feelings about the brash and ill-tempered Superman featured in Action Comics, but I’m enjoying Grant Morrison’s version of an inexperienced Man of Steel. We’ve gotten used to a Supe...

by Seth Jacob

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The New 52 Bullet Reviews: Week 1

It’s been roughly two weeks since comic book fans had their last glance at the DC Universe as we’ve known it for the better part of the last 30 years. Last week DC Comics launched their company wide universe reboot with the...

by Jordamus Prime

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Review: Action Comics #1

This first issue of Action Comics features a Superman that will seem unfamiliar to many people, but it’s a take on the character that goes back to the Man of Steel’s roots. Instead of the familiar compassionate a...

by Seth Jacob

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