Comics Donner and Johns's ACTION COMICS...Official Thread!

[Orko Is King]

There's a preview in the new Wizard. Anyone have scans???

 

[Orko Is King]

http://centurysendsavior.com/ActionComicsKubert1.jpg

http://centurysendsavior.com/ActionComicsKubert2.jpg

 

[Spike_x1]

I am not looking forward to anything at all from this team. Johns should stay the hell away from Superman and go back to writing The Flash.

 

[Superman \S/]

I'm looking forward to this for sure! I think Donner/Johns will deliver great stories and i really like the art.

 

[The Leaguer]

The art will be pretty. The writing won't. Johns needs to take a f***ing vacation.

 

[Mogwai]

I can't wait for this. I'm looking foward to seeing Kubert's designs for Brainiac and Zod.

 

[Joker]

it better be alot better than the current Action Comics arc...it's boring as hell...

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

i may pick this up, looks good.

 

[DrMylesOBoogie]

John's is great but the premise for this story doesn't appeal to me.

 

[Morgoth]

I knew about Donner but, I didn't know about Kubert!!! Rock on!!! Now I really can't wait for this!

So does every artist that does Batman go right to Superman after? First Jim Lee, now Kubert.

This is so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mathhater]

I knew about Donner but, I didn't know about Kubert!!! Rock on!!! Now I really can't wait for this!

So does every artist that does Batman go right to Superman after? First Jim Lee, now Kubert.

This is so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two different Kuberts. Andy's doing "Batman"...his brother Adam's doing "Superman." But that's okay...cause he's awesome too.

 

[boywonder13]

http://www.supermancinema.co.uk/daily_planet/news/index.shtml

RICHARD DONNER'S SUPERMAN III - EDITED 14/9/06

Did Dick Donner have plans for Superman III? Well he did and you can read the Action comic book based on his ideas for the third picture from October 25th. It's written by Geoff Johns (A very nice person, I remember talking to him before he and Dick sat down to watch the 3hr cut of Superman back in 2000, gosh - doesn't time fly) and Richard Donner, the story is slated to be their second addition in the series. Details here.

 

[Superman \S/]

^ What does that have to do with the comic?

 

[Superman: Idols]

^ What does that have to do with the comic?

The comic is based on Donner's scrapped ideas for Superman III.

 

[PSU442]

hmm... as a not so serious comic book reader, this looks cool.

 

[Jlandsw]

Why does Lara look like Ursa from Superman II?

 

[Joker]

reading the article, I'm very much looking forward to the Superman 3 arc, the Bizarro World arc, and the apperance by my personal favorite superman villain, Zod

 

[PSU442]

Why does Lara look like Ursa from Superman II?

must be the kryptonian look.

 

[Binker]

Here is the variant cover by Kubert for Action Comics #844:

 

[The Leaguer]

Not quite as iconic as the Batman varient was.

 

[Binker]

Here is the 7 page preview to Action #844! Thansk go to BYTB, which I'm a part of. These are pdf files so right click them and save to see:

http://batmanytb.com/supermanytb/comics/titles/actioncomics/801_900/action844b.pdf

http://batmanytb.com/supermanytb/comics/titles/actioncomics/801_900/action844c.pdf

http://batmanytb.com/supermanytb/comics/titles/actioncomics/801_900/action844d.pdf

http://batmanytb.com/supermanytb/comics/titles/actioncomics/801_900/action844e.pdf

http://batmanytb.com/supermanytb/comics/titles/actioncomics/801_900/action844f.pdf

http://batmanytb.com/supermanytb/comics/titles/actioncomics/801_900/action844g.pdf

 

[Morgoth]

Two different Kuberts. Andy's doing "Batman"...his brother Adam's doing "Superman." But that's okay...cause he's awesome too.

See I thought they said Andy's doing both, I figured it was like what Jim Lee did, Bats first then Supes.

Oh well. Both good but Andy is better.

 

[Morgoth]

Just read it. Loved it, can't wait for the action to get started and see what comes of the story.

Well, it seems yet again there is another mystery "Super" Boy to talk about, first Lois' son in the new movie and now this.

Although I don't think they need another Kryptonian introduced. Just leave it at Kal-El and SuperGirl.

Maybe he'll turn out to be something altogether different. I don't trust the kid.

Adam Kubert's art is good but, his brother Andy is so much better. Too bad Andy couldn't do it. I'm glad he's doing Batman though.

It is nice to see Andy doing some covers at least.

Can't wait for Bizarro in the next issue and Zod and Brainiac later on.

It is a really nice touch to see the books have a bit of influence from the movie now, with the Crystals and all.

My favorite part of the book was actually the ad in the back for SUPERMAN II The Richard Donner cut. It has a nice short letter from Dick talking about his cut of the movie and his love of the film.

This truly is the year of Superman, first the movie, now this great writer and artist team up on Action comics, and November 28th the Richard cut of Super 2.t: I'm happy.

 

[Binker]

PLOT:
In this first issue to the arc "Last Son," a small child from the planet Krypton is sent by his parents to Earth with powers beyond imagination. The child's future potential is limitless, even when Superman finds him!

REVIEW:
So here it is, THE BIG EVENT: SUPERMAN GETS A SON. Why is it a big event? Because Superman is an icon. Sure Batman got himself a son of his own, and Batman is one of the popular comic book heroes, but a change in Superman affects everyone. Superman's death was a big news story because it was a media event. Same goes for Clark/Superman marrying Lois Lane, it was a shocker to alot of people. Superman is a symbol people look up to and relate to. And he has had many evolutions; when he started, he was the great immigrant story, then the great love triangle. When he was engaged and then married to long time love Lois Lane, he & Lois were now the ultimate married couple. Now Superman is going through another evolution: the ultimate family man. With him and Lois (and the son) being the ultimate family.

So how was the issue? It turned out great. Before I went to buy it, I heard by some that they thought the issue was average. But after I read it, it didn't feel average to me. I know some people, like me, were afraid the comic was going to be very much like the Donner/Singer movies TOO MUCH. But it actually isn't. In some respects, its like Superman Returns (well the son idea came from that but not just that). But its still the comic book Superman. Also, another concern I had was that since Richard Donner was brought up to date of the current Superman, I was still had some fear that the story would forget what happened when Supergirl arrived in the Supergirl arc from Superman/Batman. Luckily that wasn't the case. I mean they still mentioned her so its not like "forgotten".

So the kid (the comic book kid, not Jason the SR kid). What's his name? He doesn't know. Where's he from? Krypton, of course. In this issue, we're given the facts: he doesn't speak english, only kryptonese. He has super strength, so far. And the government wants him, and even went as far as to take him away only to anger big blue. And this kid didn't get unnoticed by Luthor, which what he'll be ending up doing will occur in the next issues. So far, we don't know anything about this kid other than what we already know. Again, while it does sound like a Supergirl repeat, there are differences to show that its not really. At least Supergirl had a clue of why she was sent, this kid doesn't.

Now as I said before, we were afraid of how much of the movies was going to be in the comics with this arc. But as it turned out, well until something gets revealed in the next ones, there wasn't alot of the movies in this issue. Now we already have the crystal technology and Fortress from the movies, thanks to the OYL Up, Up & Away arc, so it was obivious that Superman would get to talk to Jor-El like in the movies. That is what happens in this issue's beginning. And the Jor-El in the Fortress isn't like the Donner films in which Superman was actually talking to his kryptonian father, instead Fortress Jor-El is an AI like he was in Superman Returns. Perry White is just like Jackie Cooper's protrayal. And while Superman now sports an "S" on his belt like SR, Clark Kent looks like Brandon Routh. That's it. Everything else is the same as its always been in the comics (Lois & Clark married, Pa Kent still alive, etc). Again, it seems my fears are gone.

Now while my fears are gone though, I still want to say something to DC Comics about certain things recently. First with the crystal Fortress and now with little more and news of Smallville's Chloe about to be in the comics, it somewhat seems DC is reversing the idea of comics influencing media by using media's ideas for their comics. Now its just Superman, and its not THAT much to be consider a worry, but I'm just saying, DC: its the comics that should influence the media's protrayals of their characters, not the other way around. While so far so good, I'm just saying this to avoid a future problem.

Overall, this turned out to be fine. Again, I had fears first but it didn't turn out to be as bad as I feared it would. I liked it and I'm excited to see what's next. I think its because they updated Richard Donner with what has been going on to Superman. With Donner and Geoff Johns, I wanan see what's next.

RATING: 8/10

 

[Mogwai]

PLOT:
In this first issue to the arc "Last Son," a small child from the planet Krypton is sent by his parents to Earth with powers beyond imagination. The child's future potential is limitless, even when Superman finds him!

REVIEW:
So here it is, THE BIG EVENT: SUPERMAN GETS A SON. Why is it a big event? Because Superman is an icon. Sure Batman got himself a son of his own, and Batman is one of the popular comic book heroes, but a change in Superman affects everyone. Superman's death was a big news story because it was a media event. Same goes for Clark/Superman marrying Lois Lane, it was a shocker to alot of people. Superman is a symbol people look up to and relate to. And he has had many evolutions; when he started, he was the great immigrant story, then the great love triangle. When he was engaged and then married to long time love Lois Lane, he & Lois were now the ultimate married couple. Now Superman is going through another evolution: the ultimate family man. With him and Lois (and the son) being the ultimate family.

So how was the issue? It turned out great. Before I went to buy it, I heard by some that they thought the issue was average. But after I read it, it didn't feel average to me. I know some people, like me, were afraid the comic was going to be very much like the Donner/Singer movies TOO MUCH. But it actually isn't. In some respects, its like Superman Returns (well the son idea came from that but not just that). But its still the comic book Superman. Also, another concern I had was that since Richard Donner was brought up to date of the current Superman, I was still had some fear that the story would forget what happened when Supergirl arrived in the Supergirl arc from Superman/Batman. Luckily that wasn't the case. I mean they still mentioned her so its not like "forgotten".

So the kid (the comic book kid, not Jason the SR kid). What's his name? He doesn't know. Where's he from? Krypton, of course. In this issue, we're given the facts: he doesn't speak english, only kryptonese. He has super strength, so far. And the government wants him, and even went as far as to take him away only to anger big blue. And this kid didn't get unnoticed by Luthor, which what he'll be ending up doing will occur in the next issues. So far, we don't know anything about this kid other than what we already know. Again, while it does sound like a Supergirl repeat, there are differences to show that its not really. At least Supergirl had a clue of why she was sent, this kid doesn't.

Now as I said before, we were afraid of how much of the movies was going to be in the comics with this arc. But as it turned out, well until something gets revealed in the next ones, there wasn't alot of the movies in this issue. Now we already have the crystal technology and Fortress from the movies, thanks to the OYL Up, Up & Away arc, so it was obivious that Superman would get to talk to Jor-El like in the movies. That is what happens in this issue's beginning. And the Jor-El in the Fortress isn't like the Donner films in which Superman was actually talking to his kryptonian father, instead Fortress Jor-El is an AI like he was in Superman Returns. Perry White is just like Jackie Cooper's protrayal. And while Superman now sports an "S" on his belt like SR, Clark Kent looks like Brandon Routh. That's it. Everything else is the same as its always been in the comics (Lois & Clark married, Pa Kent still alive, etc). Again, it seems my fears are gone.

Now while my fears are gone though, I still want to say something to DC Comics about certain things recently. First with the crystal Fortress and now with little more and news of Smallville's Chloe about to be in the comics, it somewhat seems DC is reversing the idea of comics influencing media by using media's ideas for their comics. Now its just Superman, and its not THAT much to be consider a worry, but I'm just saying, DC: its the comics that should influence the media's protrayals of their characters, not the other way around. While so far so good, I'm just saying this to avoid a future problem.

Overall, this turned out to be fine. Again, I had fears first but it didn't turn out to be as bad as I feared it would. I liked it and I'm excited to see what's next. I think its because they updated Richard Donner with what has been going on to Superman. With Donner and Geoff Johns, I wanan see what's next.

RATING: 8/10

Great review, I really enjoyed this comic.