Week In Review: Action Comics #8 / Daredevil #10.1 / Dejah Thoris and the White Apes of Mars #1 / Men of War #8

Action Comics #8 (DC)

Story : Grant Morrison

Art : Rags Morales

(Reviewed by Anubhav DasGupta)

Grant Morrison has written the greatest Superman story of all time. This, however, is not that story. It just falls short of being amazing. It’s not Morrison at his best. It is, however a damn good book.

We’re still in Superman’s early years (He’s just got his suit a few issues back). The comic starts with Superman battling against Brainiac/Collector and a Brainiac-possessed Metallo after he was asked to choose between Metropolis and Krypton City of Kandor (both of them miniaturized!) in the last issue.

Rags Morales’ art is brilliant. I love how everything seems to be in motion, how everything is so fluid and full of life. And Morrison is at times, very good and at times mediocre. Sometimes his writing feels as if some other writer is trying to ape his style. Bits of it seem quite forceful, and that’s what holds this issue back. And I am at a loss when it comes to deciphering Krypton-speak. Maybe we aren’t supposed to understand those bits, but still, it’s headache inducing.

The best part of the comic has to be Luthor’s dialogue in the first few panels of the comic.

Week-In-Review : Action Comics #7 / Age Of Apocalypse #1 / Avengers : The Children’s Crusade #9 / The Manhattan Projects #1

Another day, another lot of reviews people!

This has been a big week and so we had not only a bunch of review yesterday, we've got some more today too – and today we stick to some fan-favourites for you as well as a promising new-comer. So dive in and enjoy folks!

Action Comics #7 (DC)

Story: Grant Morrison / Sholly Fisch (backup)

Art: Rags Morales / Brad Walker (backup)

(Review by Akshay Dhar)

This series started off with a bang and really made me care about reading a purely Superman story again, for the first time in years – seven issues in and that joy and simple pleasure when reading this latest instalment remain just as strong. Morales continues his streak of excellent artwork on pretty much every single page here, his faces, the layouts and the flow through the comic is very beautifully put together and really makes it all the more enjoyable – plus the colouring choice adds to the slightly more retro feel of it all which works great.

Quick recap – Superman has been shoving back and forth with the law, the army (and a predictably anti-alien and super-egotistical Lex Luthor) and pushing to be a hero of the people. He's had good days, bad days and some in between, but so far so good. Ok, now on to this issue.

The last issue ended with a manhattan-like island part of Metropolis called 'New Troy' being simply vanishing in front of everyone's eyes as Superman, General Lane (Lois' father and somewhat a DC version of 'Thunderbolt' Ross, the Hulk's one-time nemesis), Steel (a.k.a John Henry Irons) and the whole of Metropolis.

Action Comics #1-4: Re-Reviewed! (The New 52)

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WRITER: Grant Morrison

PENCILLER: Rags Morales

INKER: Rick Bryant

COLORIST: Brad Anderson

Well, first of all, this post was supposed to be up several days back, but due to the awesomeness of the comics (that we've will be reviewing recently), I actually re-read the first four issues again and again.

So, without further delay, I present you another round of Morrison's hit stuff – ACTION COMICS!

FIRST ENCOUNTER-

A Superman in a small-sized cape, old jeans and above all a T-shirt, didn't actually appeal to me much the first time I heard about him. But, whatever the dislikes might have been, I'm loving the new Supes!

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THE STORY-

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The first issue with two magnificent covers by Morales and Jim Lee, seems to be one of my favorite issue out of the four released so far.

The first few pages show us a totally new Superman. Long before he had even established people's faith for him, when cops didn't thank him but used every opportunity to (try to) catch him.
Now, that's a Superman everyone would eventually love to read.

The Supes we get to see here, is still a little immature at the SUPERMAN style of crime-fighting. Packed with an old Spider-man sense of humor and new ways of making people accept their crimes, it really is a must-read.

The Luthor here is a little chubby and Clark Kent has got baggy clothes(to hide his muscles) and doesn't work at The Daily Planet, but he works at it's rival - The Daily Star. I know, amused me quite a bit at first too.

The last pages of Issue One, shows us that while stopping a train, Supes is bloody, injured and unconscious.

Week In Review - 6th Feb 2012! Action Comics #6 + Fatale #2 + The Boys #63 + X-Club #3+Dark Horse Presents#8

Hey there all you Comic-addicts out there - young, old, thin, fat and anything and everything in between!
Come, grab a seat, settle back and relax as we bring you another edition of Week-In-Review as we review 4 of our teams picks from the past week.

ACTION COMICS #6

Writer:Grant Morrison

Artist:Andy Kubert
Reviewer: Anupam Sarkar

Take genius and flawless writing, awesome art and an iconic character and mix 'em up.

What you get is Action Comics #6!

Back in Issue 5, readers were introduced to the “Anti-Superman Army” who - for unknown reasons - travel back to the past to steal the power source of the rocket that sent Supes to Earth, a.k.a. Kryptonite, which they intend to use to put an end to Superman!

Issue 6 starts with a meet between the Anti-Superman Army and a scientist who extracted the Kryptonite from the rocket's engine.

He also explains that the Kryptonite can be used to create different colors of Kryptonite , which will have different effects on Superman.

The last issue introduced us to Superman from five years into the future from the Action Comics's time-period as well as the Legion of Super-Heroes' founding members (Cosmic Man, Lightning Man and Saturn Woman).

In this issue, we see the Legion trying to to get the Kryptonite back from the Anti-Superman Army and the scientist who are in a hollow lead pellet inside Superman's brain! (Now that sounds insane)

Readers also get a look at some of Superman's childhood memories which are unlocked when Saturn Woman accesses his memory in order to search for the hollow lead pellet.

The issue introduces some crazy yet awesome sci-fi stuff and all the genius stuff that Morrison is known for, while the art by Andy Kubert is just stunning.

SCORE: 10/10