Rags Morales (artist)
Andy Kubert (artist)
DC Comics
DC Comics took a bold step and renumbered the longest-running monthly comic, Action Comics, to #1 for the first time since 1938 as part of the DC Comics—The New 52 event.With this renumbering comes a new creative team featuring comics legend Grant Morrison and fan-favorite artist Rag Morales. While Morrison is no stranger to writing the Superman character, having won three Eisner Award's for his work on All-Star Superman, Action Comics will be something new for both old and new readers and present humanity's first encounters with Superman, before he became one of the World's Greatest Super Heroes. Set a few years in the past, it's a bold new take on a classic hero.
Superman: Action Comics Vol. 1: Superman and the Men of Steel includes issues 1-8 of the monthly series
The blurb on the cover of this reinvention of Supes ( by a USA Today reviewer) reckons that it's the best Superman story that he has ever read. I think he needs to read more.
It's certainly not a bad read but it does pale into insignificance next to Morrison's own All Star Superman and many others (such as Moore's 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow' or even John Byrne's 1980's reinvention, 'Man of Steel').
This new book is part of DCs New 52 thingy which I can't really be arsed to keep track of but it's current reinvention that will place hold the line until the next one comes along. This one plays the big S as a young fella at the start of his career both as a reporter and as a hero. The others are all similarly nascent to differing degrees with Lex being fairly well advanced.
The story takes us from the jeans, t-shirt and ape beginnings through Clark's discovery of his origins and out into the future with the Legion of Superheroes.
It's big, silly fun very much in line with Morrison's classic run on JLA and was fun but I don't really feel any need to go back to it.
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