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A review by sans
Action Comics #1000: The Deluxe Edition by Olivier Coipel, Brian Michael Bendis, Scott Snyder, Tom King, Geoff Johns
3.0
Took me over a month, but I finally pulled this out of the towering to-read stack and got through it during my lunch break. On the whole, I liked it. Some stories (King's) were amazing, some (Wolfman's) were the opposite of amazing and most were cheerily in the middle. Broadly, this is a good intro to the Superman mythology. You get some new stuff, some retro, you get to dip into different eras of Clark's journey so far, you get enough information to know what's happening, and teased enough about major past stories to maybe go find them and dig in.
As for the final story...I don't know. Maybe I'm sick of the Bendis hype, maybe I'm still bitter that Super Sons was cancelled (thank the DC gods - New Gods? - that new maxiseries was announced), maybe I'm just the cranky old "get off my lawn" person when it comes to big changes. I'm just not thrilled with the prelude to Man of Steel. I'll still read it. Of course I will. I have very little impulse control when it comes to comics and books. I'm just heavily side-eyeing everything Bendis right now.
As for the final story...I don't know. Maybe I'm sick of the Bendis hype, maybe I'm still bitter that Super Sons was cancelled (thank the DC gods - New Gods? - that new maxiseries was announced), maybe I'm just the cranky old "get off my lawn" person when it comes to big changes. I'm just not thrilled with the prelude to Man of Steel. I'll still read it. Of course I will. I have very little impulse control when it comes to comics and books. I'm just heavily side-eyeing everything Bendis right now.