Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is a great display of how creators can interpret superheroes and their nightmares. Here we have two different horror stories, but each one is an entirely separate approach. Read Full Review

Continuing off the heels of horror and intrigue introduced by Superman and Supergirl's adventures in Knight Terrors: Superman #1, this was a strong set of horror stories from two writers who aim to push the Heroes of Tomorrow into a new and impressive height. Read Full Review

While as an event series, the tie ins for Knight Terrors have no consistency whatsoever, Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is actually really fantastic and is probably the best one of the whole event thus far. Read Full Review

The Knight Terrors crossover continues to be very successful. The simple narrative device of throwing everybody into their own nightmares actually manages to find quite a few different ways of being novel. And all of the writers involved are doing a pretty good job of making them feel like something other than clich. Its pretty rare that a big summer crossover like this comes across as being anything other than an attempt to make more money. Theres actually a narrative weight to this particular crossover, and its kind of refreshing. Read Full Review

The only missed opportunity was not referencing what is taking place in Knight Terrors: Superman, but perhaps it will be addressed somehow in the second installments of one or both tie-ins. Read Full Review

This part of the issue is one of the best overall Knight Terrors tales. Read Full Review

As fun as a nightmare can be of course, Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is just a vibe. Wall climbing, scary dark hallways, personal fears, a campy trash-talking villain, the issue has it all. Read Full Review

That is one scary ending panel! My favorite doggy gone mad! This second story was chilling. If the purpose of Knight Terrors is to show us nightmares, this story is dead on. Brrrr .... Read Full Review

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is a mixed tie-in for the Knight Terrors event, having almost nothing to do with Knight Terrors. The Powergirl story by Leah Williams is a miss, the Cyborg Superman story by Phillip Kennedy Johnson is a hit, and both have strong art. Read Full Review

derbycomics

Jul 27, 2023

Two for the price of one! A few of the event tie-ins have featured shorter back-up stories but KNIGHT TERRORS ACTION COMICS #1 includes two main stories which each get equal time to be told - the first focusing on Power Girl and the second focusing on a group of Super-Family members: Conner Kent, Natasha Steel, Kong Kenan, and the Super Twins. In a shocking twist for the event so far, both stories were entertaining & kept on theme! "She's Got No Strings, Part One" featuring Power Girl Power Girl's nightmare story is written by Leah Williams, with art by Vasco Gerogiev, colors by Alex Guimarães, and lettering by Becca Carey. Williams continues to show she is well suited writing for Paige/Power Girl long-term and I'm excited that she 'll have the opportunity to continue Paige's story starting with POWER GIRL #1 this September. The nightmare itself takes Paige throughout different time periods of the character's life that have caused her varying degrees of pain, fear, and anxiety. We get to see her exposed and vulnerable without ever becoming completely unable to attempt saving herself. Gerogiev and Guimarães do a tremendous job creating emotion via their art and colors that highlight Paiges emotional journey throughout each scene and allows the William's writing to have that much more impact as it slowly morphs from a nightmare into true horror. Carey has a heavy left with a wide variety of sound effects happening throughout the story and masterfully brings them all to life in interesting and unique ways. Each sounds has it's own style that helps add a layer of complexity to the story. "The Stuff of Nightmares, Part One" featuring Conner Kent, Natasha Steel, Kong Kenan, and the Super Twins Where Power Girl's story gradually builds towards horror, "The Stuff of Nightmares, Part One" immediately puts the reader in the midst of a scene straight out of a scary movie as the members of the Super-Family stay up late to watch...a scary movie. See what I did there?? The story is written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, with art by Mico Suayan and Fico Ossio, colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr., and lettering by Dave Sharpe. We pick up after events from ACTION COMICS #1056 with Osul-Ra asking Connor, Natasha, and Kong to spend the night due to their lingering fears due to Henshaw's actions. The rest of the story plays out as an homage to 80s/90s-slasher flicks (think Nightmare on Elm Street meets Poltergeist), but Johnson writes it in a way that feels unique and perfectly fits within the Knight Terrors theme. What really sets the horror tone though is the collective artwork by Suayan and Fajardo Jr. throughout the story. Suayan' linework creates a sense of intensity with heavy shadowing and Fajardo Jr.'s colors focus on darker tones with splashes of cooler colors for emphasis. The only area I thought was a bit off was Sharpe's lettering. Some of the final, action-heavy panels felt cluttered and overly aggressive with a lot of text. Overall Reaction Both of these stories kept my interest the entire time which hasn't been true for the majority of the Knight Terrors event, let alone tie-ins with more than one story. It's always great to see non-Superman members of the Super-Family get character development and we get that in spades here. Williams and Johnson pen intriguing stories that leave readers wanting more and the every member of the artistic team understood their assignment. Rating: 9/10 more

daspidaboy

Jul 25, 2023

a pretty fun and entertaining issue. I like the plot of these short stories

brazilian-nightwing

Jul 28, 2023

Leah Williams and Phillip Kennedy Johnson are clearly having fun pausing their current plots to develop horror stories with Power Girl and Super-Family. Both writers embrace the spirit of doing it and brings simple and fun stories with the "Knight Terrors" concept.

Psycamorean

May 07, 2024

I'm a big fan of Leah Willaims writing Power Girl and not even this boring ass event can take that away from me.

ResearchReader

Aug 01, 2023

PKJ story was better and a good old slasher style flick, with Williams story not being terrible but not great either. That all being said, These tie in need to be really unique to be worth reading, and this one is just ok. Not bad, but not great. Art is lovely though and the art in PKJ story might justify the purchase.

K-23

Aug 23, 2023

The second story was great. Awesome art and did a great job using the disjointed theme of knight terrors to just tell a classic nightmare horror story that felt just like a movie.

sawright20

Jul 30, 2023

Both of the featured stories were good, but neither stood out among the mass of other Knight Terrors tie-ins. I preferred PKJ's story over Leah Williams', mostly because I have really enjoyed the chemistry between the Super Family that's been established in the regular title. In terms of plot, neither blew me away, and though Action Comics is my one of my favorite DC book right now, this has been my least favorite tie-in. Still, the art was quite good in both stories, and if you like these characters it may be worth the read.