james_desantis's Reviews (6.43k)

In the end I'd score it a 2.5. It's still fun at times with comedy dialog that really hits. However new art hurts, also the story seems a biy jumbled. Also final issue felt so out of place and a horrible way to leave things off. So im really hoping volume 4 is much better.

I'd give it a 2.5 in the end. It's okay. The start is promising, and learning about Elliot is great, which I overall really enjoyed. Then something happens to a character, and again, that's very interesting. However, it all really falls apart in last two issues/parts. It becomes a same run of the mill Batman story that I hoped it wouldn't. Where Hush felt like it matter, this story felt like a short diversion. So with that it was just okay, and nothing more.

Very enjoyable at points. SUPER funny too. However, the main story it's trying to tell hurt it for me. It just feels kind of fluff. Like no real story to find gripping and watching his storyline dwindle to just a one joke and move on pissed me off. We can make a gripping story and still be funny as hell. Luckily, this book made me laugh a lot, so I have to give it a high rating just for that because so little comics make me laugh out loud like this one.

I'm conflicted. The first 2 issues (and issue 0) are great. I mean truly special. They show what I LOVE about Superman. The way he uses his powers to save people, always hopeful, always cheerful, always willing to stick out his neck for people while still questioning if he should since of what he is (but never boring or dreadful like Zack Snyder's shitty version). So why is this only 3 stars?

The pacing goes crazy weird. It begins to feel so disjointed around issue 3 and 4, and then 5 and 6 are good but confusing as shit. I had to re-read pages a few times because Grant Morrison has a tendency to just shit the bed with his stories half the time. Like he has a great idea, then says "screw it" and writes the most convoluted bullshit that makes no sense and has no strucutre (see Batman R.I.P.)

Superman meets up with his future self, who goes back in the past, or the future self goes to the past and tries to prevent something so present self doesn't die...right? Sounds stupid yeah? Especially putting it in the middle of a goddamn fucking present day fight to save people. UGH what in the living hell was that shit?

Finally though we settle down into Superman finally getting his suit and addressing people in general. Telling them where he came from, but he plans to be their protector, and that he isn't going anywhere, while having a pretty good heart to heart with his landlord who knows his secret identity. Overall the start and ending were great, and capture the new Superman well, but the whole flip flop storyline with odd pacing just hurt it a little to much. A 2.5-3/5 for me.

Some Interesting ideas, and fun moments, mixed in with confusing as fuck plot and horrible side characters. Everybody comes off over the top and corny, and the main enemy in this makes no sense. Also, what the hell is happening half the time? Why do we suddenly jump so many goddamn years ahead, then back to the start.

The art is great, but the story itself is a gigantic fucking mess.

So much rage after reading whatever the fuck this garbage of a volume was. It again, had one really solid first issue but then went to complete shit. Morrison gives little fucks how confusing, LCD, mind-numbling stupid his stories get. He feeds off this confusing mix of horseshit. I never understood why people love this guy, because not a single thing I read from him has been "Great" ever. Good? Sure. Great? Hell no.

This volume is even more confusing than the past, the villain is a imp, and he's over the top silly once more and it's so confusing on how Superman even gets out of the Phantom zone. The backup fighters and the...oh screw it. Why waste my time? Fuck this book.

I'd rate it honestly a 3.5 but damn do I really enjoy this series. It's just so fun. You know Superman is going to wreck shit soon. I mean if you played the game you know the outcome. Sometimes it's just so fun building up to that outcome. I eagerly await to see what happens to all the heroes I love. The issue contains a few deaths, almost a serious one, and I can guess what will happen in Volume 2 but it doesn't make it any less exciting.

Oh man, what I feared the most. Without Tom the story begins to fall apart. It's not bad by any means, but more "Okay". Tom had a knack to create a really good Superman who's both good and bad. Brain does a decent enough job of carrying that over. However, this volume, even though contains ton of action, is a tad slow on the pacing. I really dug some of it that I won't go in to without spoilers but the scenes with Swamp Thing were great (and heartbreaking) and I did love the sweet betrayal at the end.

However, it felt very tame compared to previous volumes. I'm hoping Year 4 and 5 pick up. Because Injustice was easily top 10 DC stories for me ever. I want that continue. Come on Brain, step it the fuck up!

Well better than the last volume but this might be it for me on Action Comics. The Hybrid storyline was good enough but not "great" and that sucks. Superman faces some type of fungus like creature that grew from him. Interesting enough, and some good character moments with Lex and Lois, but then the last two issues are just boring and a fight in space without anything of interest happening. So it's not bad, better than last two, but overall it's just okay.