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ACTION COMICS #878


Price: $2.99
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  1. I on the edge with this title.  Last issue wasn’t all that strong for me, but I want to give it another issue before I give it up.  The Kryptonian Bonnie and Clyde sound like fun, but I miss Eddy Barrows already 🙁

  2. I was also very excited by Rucka’s first issue and the Eddy Barrows art.  He lasted 2 (or 3) issues before DC announced he was moving on to something else.  Add in the price increase and it was an easy decision for me to drop the book.

    I’d return if DC decided to run the Johns/Frank Secret Origin story in this pages of this title though.

  3. I’m deliberating as well, though I’ll probably drop it once the price increases as I’m not interested in the back up story in this one. 

  4. I keep forgetting, but who will be featured in the backup for this book?  And who is the creative team for it?

  5. @drakedangerz

    The co-feature is Captain Atom by Greg Rucka and James Robinson, and art by Cafu.  This starts in #879 just to avoid any confusion.

  6. @Slockhart-Cool thanks!!  I want to stick around for this book, so I’m pretty optomistic for this issue as well as the back-up material.

  7. Ive been veyr dissapointed with the last couple books so hopefully this will bring me back into it

  8. I’m really iffy with this book. I think I might drop it after this issue if it doesn’t get better. Shame too, I was really looking forward to this title when it was first released. 

  9. I find all of these opinions very confusing. This book has been fantastic. Stellar character and action from Rucka.

  10. yep, this book is fantastic, it’s very mature

  11. I have to agree. Out of all the Supes books, Superman has been suffering the most, but even the last issue of that one was great a couple of weeks ago. I’m mega excited for Action. As far as I’m concerned it hasn’t missed a beat.

  12. Last issue was the weakest of the 3 so far but still really enjoying this book

  13. @conor

    I have to agree with Conor on this.  This continues to be one of the strongest of the core superman books.  If you would have told me 6 months ago I would have Superman books without Superman and loving them I would have called you crazy.  But Flamebird and Nightwing are awesome characters.  Rucka is knocking this out of the park.

  14. Loving all these titles. I never imagined I’d be reading a Superman book – let alone liking it – and then thinking Supergirl was the best of the bunch!

    @Trichon I have to say… it took Superman not being in his titles to get me to buy them. (Well, and Gary Frank drawing Christopher Reeve Superman to get me to buy the New Krypton lead in stuff.) 

  15. @conor

    I’m with you on this one. Before Johns began his run on Action I just wasn’t too interested in the character or his supporting cast because it felt like just about every story was the same one we had been reading year after year.

    But ever since Johns took over Action has been great. And now with Rucka, Robinson and Gates handling the "core" titles it feels like a fun and cohesive universe. I don’t mind not having Clark in these issues. I think the whole line has gotten better since we only see him in one book a month anyway.

  16. Don’t get me wrong, it looks like Action has come a long way from what it looked like a couple years back, but $3.99 for a Superman-related book with no Supes?!  It’s all about how much money I got to spend this week to be honest, but this is number one on my chop block.

  17. Its just last issue that I didn’t enjoy so much.  The first two were fantastic.  I still have hopes that this will hook me, we’ll see.

  18. This doesnt seem too appealing. Drop.

  19. @robbydzwonar  Look on the bright side.  At least you’ll get extra content for another dollar.  10 more pages of story is something that I’ll pay another buck for as long as the conent is good. 

  20. Here! Here! I’m with Conor on this one. I haven’t found reason to be disappointed yet.

  21. i take it back. i now disagree with conor. i just want to be different

  22. This is going to be $3.99 from here on out??

  23. Never thought I’d like a Superman book that didn’t have Superman in it this much. Welcome back to the DCU Greg Rucka! Please stay.

  24. Am I the only one who thinks that the art in this issue is rubbish? The writing is good, but the art bites.

  25. This issue was a bit slapdash, no? It seemed like there was story enough for 18 pages. And we dragged it out a bit too much. As well, General Lane seems way too smart to think that Thara and Chirs were the same people. it just didn’t make sense for him to blow a gasket. It was weird. 3/5 for me. A shame, because I had been enjoying the last few issues of this.

  26. The art in this issue was super(snicker)

  27. @Garrett: I really liked the art a lot. I’d be really cool with this guy being the new regular artist.

  28. I’ve liked Andrew Robinson’s covers on other titles but his Action covers aren’t enticing. Too murky.

    It doesn’t help that Flamebird and Nightwing’s new costumes are deadly dull. Interior artist Diego Olmos does his best with them, too, but at base they’re spacesuits which hide the character of the wearer. Apart from that, I liked Olmos’ work, even when he was called on to draw stuff I wasn’t keen on.

    Such as the violent scenes which have become the default setting for Greg Rucka’s scripts. Brrr, this book is so very mature nowadays . . . The twists and turns of the script are engaging if occasionally unbelievable (General Lane is this stupid?). I’d like it more if I wasn’t forced to negotiate panel after panel of Kryptonese – yes, we get it, DC commissioned a Kryptonese alphabet, do we have to have it with tiny, tough-to-read subtitles? Doesn’t anyone check the colour proofs?

    Supposed stars Thars and Chris lack charisma, possibly due to their not getting enough panel time for their personalities to develop. Lois fares better, withba nice running gag about her contacts book, but we’ve had eight decades to get to know her.

    So, not the greatest issue but it’s part of the New Krypton story so I’ll give it an issue or two more. And that’s it.

  29. My apologies for the above spelling mistakes – the formatting on the iPhone is rather unhelpful . . . it doesn’t let me go back/up a few lines! I promise, I wasn’t going for Kryptonese.

  30. Who was the guy at the end?

  31. @skeets: I think the guy at the end was Codename: Assasin ( I think thats his actual title?), but no clue who the green barbarian guys are.

     This was a good ish, but I agree w/Mart, the kryptonese translation subtitles are to small/hard to read. When they were out in the mountains, I had even missed some subtitles because they blended in w/the scenery. Other then that I really dug this book.

  32. I missed the regular artist on this, but still … another strong issue. This book continues to be awesome. Glad I didn’t drop it now!

  33. I think Rucka spoiled us with the 1st couple of issues as last issue was not great just mediocre.  This issue was better than the last but still not to the quality of the first couple issues.

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