ACTION COMICS #873
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Back in the old days, nobody said a comic book was a "One Shot." They said it was a "Comic Book." One Shot is a retronym to refer to a story that is completed in one issue, since so few of them are.
Well, it looks like we're going to start needing a retronym of "story arc." Something to refer to a story that is resolved within the span of five or six or twelve issues -- a "self contained mult-parter" maybe. Because we just finished the "New Krypton" arc, and I can't think anything that was actually resolved.
Various characters' fathers are in a different state of life/ death than they were several months ago. Luthor and Lane are working on something. Something slow (no kidding). Kandor has gone from being New Krypton in the Action Comics sense to being New Krypton in the JLA #0 sense.
Which side is Supergirl on? What's going on with that whole Jimmy Olson investigation? What is up with those bad guys in the Phantom Zone? Zod? Doomsday? Brainiac? Alura? New Krypton wasn't a story arc. It was Chapter One. Not a bad Chapter One, I guess. But it is certainly not a "story arc" in any sense that I'm familiar with.
Well, it looks like we're going to start needing a retronym of "story arc." Something to refer to a story that is resolved within the span of five or six or twelve issues -- a "self contained mult-parter" maybe. Because we just finished the "New Krypton" arc, and I can't think anything that was actually resolved.
Various characters' fathers are in a different state of life/ death than they were several months ago. Luthor and Lane are working on something. Something slow (no kidding). Kandor has gone from being New Krypton in the Action Comics sense to being New Krypton in the JLA #0 sense.
Which side is Supergirl on? What's going on with that whole Jimmy Olson investigation? What is up with those bad guys in the Phantom Zone? Zod? Doomsday? Brainiac? Alura? New Krypton wasn't a story arc. It was Chapter One. Not a bad Chapter One, I guess. But it is certainly not a "story arc" in any sense that I'm familiar with.
Story: 3 - Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Yeah but the city of Kandor goes from being a city on a big ice cube to forming into it’s own planet completely opposite of the planet Earth hence the name: New Krypton.
I’m not sure what that really changes, though. They are still only a few minutes away at Super-speed.
Also, there wasn’t a good Science-fictiony explanation for how that happened. Superman can’t make planets out of nothing. Why can Supermom?
Its because they were using crystals from Supes Fortress of Solitude (or since the fortress was formed from Kryptonia science, I’m sure they had their own source). Kind of like how Lex was going to take over the world in Superman Returns, they used the crystals to grow a new planet. There was a story shortly after OYL where Lex did something similar, creating a construct out of the crystals that threatened to overrun the town. They didn’t come out and say it, but thats how it looked like to me.
So wait….there is a Superman Returns reference in this?
PASS! 🙂
Not really a reference. I was saying it was akin to what happened in Returns, and only the part about the growing crystals which has been seen in other Super-titles. The book coulda used a little Parker Posey though……