ACTION COMICS #18

Review by: kingpinII

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Story by Grant Morrison
Art by Rags Morales & Mark Propst
Cover by Rags Morales

Size: 40 pages
Price: 4.99

This was stupid. All of it.

I’m high enough on the intellectual spectrum to get idiosyncrasy in most storylines if I want to take the time to try and dig for it. So, I’m done feeling like I didn’t get something from Grant Morrison’s latest long-winded storyline. It’s thematic of the last decade of his work. This last story of his was just a bunch of hasty delusion and gibberish.

Example: “We in this radiant-form is stabilized.” Yes, folks, that was a complete sentence (complete word balloon) strait out of the book, followed by, “Wish no longer conflict”.

Gibberish.

Why did I buy this? I feel as stupid trying to answer this question as I do at the end of just about every long-winded Morrison arc (exception New X-Men from ten years ago).

Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 1 - Poor

Comments

  1. I happened to find it very comprehendable, and that quote you used was written that way because that is the way, the newly transformed character said it, and is actually MUCH easier to understand than the way he speaks when he’s a strangely evolved squid (which is still readable it just takes some work, and is actually lots of fun). If you care to, reread the parts of this arc that center around the 5th dimension, and in particular what Jor-El has to say about the toy that baby Kal-El is playing with at the end of this issue. Pay attention to the “greatest trick”. These things tied it all together for me. This was a great run, I’m sorry you didn’t like it, but I hope this helps clear up the gibberish. It’s kinda tricky, but thinking in extra dimensions usually is.

  2. I reread all 18 issues last week and, while I still think it’s the weakest run of Morrison’s career and definitely NOT good enough for the relaunch of a title as important as Action Comics . . . I was absolutely shocked at how much better it was the second time through.

    There are definite shortcomings. There are things which Morrison does which are pointless and frustrating and needlessly oblique. And the art is inconsistent to say the least. But there are a LOT of cool touches and the overall plot and interconnected arcs all work a LOT better once you begin to see the overall picture.

    I read this as it was coming out, in fits and starts, as I saved up enough LCS store credit to buy it all for “free”, because $3.99 per issue was too much for this. And reading it that way, I’d have given it all about a 1.5/5. Second time through, it’s a 3/5.

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