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So sad that you have to create an account to hate on a comic and a writer. You only review superman and action comics since Bendis join, I pity you

It's not that short.

Yet I can write entire essays on how the current volumes of Superman and Action Comics are absolute garbage. And yeah, I've felt compelled to continually review the Superman family comics since bendis took over because they went from legitimately good stories to absolute trash. If they were not as bad as they are and a complete affront to Superman himself, I would not do this. But as long as people keep rating this barely passable garbage as 7+/10 I'll keep stating what I believe.

And Super17 you forget I also thought the Man of Steel mini-series was a massive stain on Superman's legacy after it's historic issue #1000

Well damn, I like garbage. Who knew? Are you, possibly, able to elaborate why this is bad? I'm curious.

bendis can't maintain consistency in the characterization of his own original character, rogol zaar, possibly the most generic "alien warlord" type there is. He blatantly ignores established continuity and has characters act in ways that make absolutely no sense given their previous portrayals in other, and even concurrent, books; look at how Barry Allen appears in this title, you'd think he's the biggest idiot there ever was. To me his humor never hits its mark, it's always cringey.

He effectively took away one of the facets of Superman that lead to the biggest growth in his character in the previous volume, his family, for no reason. The way he did so makes absolutely no sense, because the last time Superman actually saw his father, who he let his family leave with, they were enemies. They never reconciled, yet he ignored that. He portrayed Jon Kent in a way that is basically the opposite of how he's shown in Super Sons, a book exponentially better than this one.

An example taken directly from this issue, he has no idea how Superman's powers work. The way he used his solar flare here is not in line with the actual idea of how it functions. He also basically has Superman forget how the initial conflict with rogol zaar was resolved. It's part of his M.O. of ignoring everything established about a character just to tell whatever story he wants, no matter how asinine it is.

There's plenty wrong with the writing, and no matter how good the art may be it cannot compensate. For every great splash page showing what may be a great action sequence, you have panels filled with senseless dialogue that just takes away all the momentum it can build up.

With Flash, I agree, he does come off as a bit of dumbass. Not so much in this issue though. Rogol Zaar I think is consistent. Big, angry alien hell-bent on killing Kryptonians. Generic? Maybe, but I think it's executed well. As for ignoring established continuity. It's a bit hard to tell nowadays what's in and what's not in continuity, but I don't recall any deviation from continuity made by Bendis.

rogol zaar is anything but consistent, he's initially shown as a being wanting to "safeguard the universe", then he's willing to kill an entire planet and billions of inhabitants to get to 3 kryptonians. He's supposed to want to eradicate kryptions, then he strikes a deal with one of their biggest criminals who's part of the race himself.

Everything to do with Jor-El here is a massive deviation of continuity. His lack of an understanding regarding Superman's powers can easily fit into that as well. Jon choosing to leave his parents for a grandfather who last time he encountered him was an ENEMY of his father, is downright stupid.

Heroes who have faced multiple multiversal threats losing their damn minds and not being able to maintain any shred of composure? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

As for the Superfamily, that angle is more touched on in Action Comics. But I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because it's clear that he is trying to build towards something. We still don't know what happened on that trip with Jor-El. Maybe Robin's attitude rubbed off a bit on Jon and he decided to stay in space with Jor? Maybe that's why Lois wasn't very keen on meeting with Clark? One thing is for sure. Super-dad made me like Superman.

For that trip to even make sense, there would have to be a reconciliation with Jor-El. That never happened. That makes the whole premise of his family leaving with him be ludicrous. Jon choosing to leave his family, when it goes against the very values he was instilled in, is as I said, dumb as hell. The previous volume with Gleason and Tomasi was fantastic. This is a far cry from it and from the "Super-dad" you just stated you like. This is terrible writing.

If there is something bendis can write it's street-level heroes with very limited history and characterization so he can mold them as he chooses. But the most storied Superhero in all Western comics, that is the worst fit for him to manage.

As far as Action Comics goes, it's not any better than this book, is equally crap. Maybe even more nonsensical than this one if issue #1003 is any indication of the quality of its story.

Just about the only main universe book with Superman being released right now worth a damn is Justice League. The key difference between that book and Superman & Action Comics, bendis has no hand in it.

Well, I will refrain from any judgments right now, since we don't know everything about this whole ordeal with Jor-El. In Man of Steel there were only tidbits of info and in AC it's just getting some spotlight. So I'll wait.

I won't, the idea behind is frankly beyond dumb, and it ignores clear storylines that just happened in the past volume. It asks for far more suspension of disbelief that it merits. Everyone acts out-of-character, sometimes in the most nonsensical of ways, and whatever "intrigue" the story is supposed to build is just lost through that. The art is great though, too bad the writing cannot measure up.

Noted, RBL. I agree that this issue was not perfect, but I still enjoyed it. Totally respect your opinion though. Serious question: Do you like any current comics? If so, which ones?

Justice League, Aquaman, Detective Comics, and Green Arrow are a few I consider good. The Flash is for the most part solid, Hal Jordan & the GL Corps was pretty good, sucks it ended. Probably the Wild Storm is what I'm enjoying the most. JL Dark, Odyssey and Hawkman have promise. Stuck to DC with this list.

Nightwing tended to be good, but the Vire story arc was weak and issue 50 should never have existed, but depending on how long they draw that cheapness out how bad it will be.

Right on, Wild Storm is friggin' great! Nice selections, man!

Thanks, man. Nice to see someone else appreciates that book, it's really good mix of espionage, sci-fi action. Would really like to see a few more titles in that line, but so far it's going strong.

I agree with your analysis RBL and actually I just dropped both Superman and AC from my pull list.

Keep sucking king's balls, you are good at ir

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

Coming from a Tom king's Batman fanboy thats a little hypocrite, his writing for Batman "voice" is The worst

I bow to your mastery and give your comment a 10/10, Super17. Dang, I got served, y'all.

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hauhauhauhhauaua, this guy put "1" every issue! This pathethic

yeah. that's just as bad as putting a '10' on every issue.

True. He may be a troll for putting a 1 for every issue but putting a 10 every time is just as bad.

10 or 1 every time is not bad or good. That is just how one feels. Although it is odd for someone to always rate 1 and still come back for more, someone who rates 10 is obviously enjoying themselves so it makes sense for for them to be here after 50+ issues. So the real question is... why are you haters here? If you have rated 50+ as 1... maybe you should stop reading it and go away. It's not like you cant find Batman in a buncha other comics you would probably enjoy more.

The only reason to keep reading would be if there was hope you'd start to enjoy it. If you have some raging hateful bias and are unable to change your mind yet keep coming back for more... then you are a masochistic hater, I would say you were pathetic, but you definitely have issues.

Wouldn't say you were pathetic** just that you have issues.

hello Mr Pot, i'd like you to meet Mr Kettle.