I’m really confident that this book WILL be great. But seriously. SERIOUSLY. Come on.

Especially since Rucka’s run on Action Comics hit the ground running with lots of action and set up for the long haul or at least the next year, this was not the kind of book I wanted to read from Robinson and Guedes. As usual though, I can’t say [er type] with a straight face that this was a bad comic. It wasn’t at all, honest. However, as we all know Mon-El and the Guardian are going to be taking care of Metropolis so reading another issue of putting the pieces into place was somewhat frustrating.

Some people like to say that when people complain about nothing happening in a comic they are simply skimming over important dialogue and looking for things blowing up. I’m not one of those readers, and I enjoyed the well written and necessary character and relationship development between Mon-El and Jim Harper. I think their relationship will make for some great stories, so please let’s get to these stories. Granted you can’t tell these stories without having set up their relationship, but that relationship could have easily been developed in previous issues that were infinitely more disappointing than this one because we had to see Superman mull over a decision when we already knew exactly what he was going to do.

So, perhaps my complaint isn’t so much with THIS issue on its own but rather with the pacing of this book over the past few months. However, based on the last page reveal it seems things will finally kick into high gear.

Quick note on the art, I love the work of Guedes and Magalhaes. These two work wonderfully together, and I hope they stick on the book as Robinson takes it to the next level because like I said earlier I know he will.