So sign me up for the new era! I'm ready! And bring back Nick Dragotta now and then! Smashing stuff! Read Full Review

Action Comics #1050 is yet another great book in this series repertoire. It expertly sets up the new status quo for Superman and really builds anticipation for what comes next. Its a perfect Superman comic. Read Full Review

What is clear is that the writing team of Johson, Taylor, and Williamson have the entire Superman family in very good hands. Read Full Review

Despite the distracting changes in art style, Action Comics #1050 is full of interesting plot twists and character turns. While tying up the straggler threads from the past year or so of Action Comics, it also provides intriguing setups for the next phase in Supermans ongoing story. Read Full Review

Ultimately, Action Comics #1050 was billed as a major shift for Superman and it more than delivers. Read Full Review

So there you have it. Another version of the DC Universe is coming to a close. Next month sees the start of the Dawn of DC and with it more changes for a range of characters. Who better than Big Blue to kick things off? Read Full Review

Superman is relaunching again, and some things are new and some things are old again. This issue serves as a really fun launching pad, with some epic superhero stuff in its own right, and a lot of cool set-ups for future stories. Read Full Review

Regardless of the art hiccups, this issue is an important one for the next era of Superman. One that looks far easier to trust and believe in compared to its predecessor. Read Full Review

Action Comics #1050 is a pretty key issue setting up a new status quo for the character and setting up what's to come. It's not the spot to hop on for new readers but feels like a nice entry to shift from what was to what's coming. It's implications reverberate far beyond just the Superman comics and there's potential there's more to come than just what's presented. As a Superman comic goes, it's entertaining with a nice balance of what makes the character great and reminding us why he's so super. Read Full Review

Action Comics #1050 is a return to form for the Man of Steel with a dastardly action by Lex Luthor that resolves the secret identity problem, adds worldwide stakes, and teases big things to come. That said, the wildly inconsistent art makes this issue feel disjointed and jarring from one page to the next. Read Full Review

Action Comics #1050 feels more like a zero issue than a celebration. It does right some big wrongs, but overall, it doesn't have me more or less excited about the upcoming Superman Family of books than I already was. Plus, The artists involved did not fit the story well, and they clashed with each other. Read Full Review

Action Comics #1050 delivers on what Lex Luthor has been cooking up with Manchester Black. Now the big change that the comic uses Luthor to do feels similar to what Marvel did with Dr. Doom in the Young Avengers Children's Crusade storyline, and that's not a good thing. The biggest problem isn't what Luthor did, at least not for this writer, it's the in-universe explanations the writers gave him to explain the how and why he did it. It all just feels like it could've been handledbetter. Read Full Review

Time will tell whether or not Action Comics #1050 is truly the beginning of a new Golden Age for the Last Son of Krypton, or the latest failure by DC to effectively utilize its most important character. Despite the excellent art, a handful of questionable decisions leave me with less confidence in the upcoming Superman family relaunch. Read Full Review

I think Philip K Johnson is my favorite superman writer of all time. He completely fixed Bendis Superman lol.

Pretty awesome start. Clever way to reintroduce the secret identity. Really fun action sequences.

Im looking forward to what comes of this.

This was a really good issue. I really like where Superman seems to be heading. Also, all these people comparing this issue to the Daredevil story are outing themselves as fake comic book fans. Real fans remember when Spider-Man did it.

Hopeful start to the new era of Superman

I don’t like the “get a stroke” aspect, but I do like the secret identities coming back.

I’m glad they undid the horrendous decision to make Supes identity public but overall the book was average at best. I did not like the art at all. Supes looked like an elf from DND. Lex was nice and arrogant but sure was dumb. There’s some good setup though and at least the tone is more Superman then dark and dreary man.

I hate to give this comic a low score but I gotta. They finally fixed one of the things Bendis broke (although he wasn't the first to do it) but just used the purple children scheme from daredevil. Felt that was really lame. Supes does have new powers, which is cool, but did he really need to be MORE powerful? This was just a disappointment all around. Also, one good artist throughout would have been better than multiple bad ones.

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This comic would've been Wayyyy better if the Big Development wasn't announced weeks in advance, and we were actually Shocked by the change in status. Alas those days are past and anticipation isn't What will happen, but only How will it occur. An unfortunate development. Now the review. SPOILERS FOLLOW:

Horrible, awful art. Supe's identity comeback was basically a rip-off of Daredevil's. The only interesting part was Luthor's motivation, although technically this isn't the Kal-El he grew up with. Since Supes already had almost limitless power, his enhancement doesn't mean much. will he vanquish foes more easily? that would make bad comics, so not likely. All in all, a big let-down

Gotta say, I found Lex's scheme to be rather convoluted.

The reset button gets pressed in the tediously generic way that these things always do, though "anyone who learns his identity now gets a stroke" is a lousy new addition. (Surely Batman's doomed, then?) And the Lex-Superman scene was truly awful: Lex's motivations made little sense, his plan was idiotic and made him look like a bumbling fool, and his dialogue was frequently off-model. At least the art was nice, it's got that going for it.

I don’t want to be that guy, but duty calls. The bottom line is that DC rips off an old Daredevil plot where the children of Killgrave erased memories. So Lex uses Manchester Black to erase everyone’s memories of the Kent’s as Supes. If anyone finds out they have strokes. Media won’t be able to be read,etc.

That’s nice, but all the media hasn’t been erased, so children who grew up after the spell and thus not under the spell will eventually learn to read or how to YouTube, so they will get strokes, I guess. Lex uses his latest battle suit to zap Supes into another star system, but thanks to Warworld Supes is more powerful than powerful than than ever, and he can now cross vast distances in the blink of an eye.

My thoughts. They are basically “give me a break.” An overpowered hero that should win every fight without breaking a sweat is EVEN MORE POWERFUL. That means every time Supes fights someone, it actually becomes difficult to build in any suspense. DC will be forced to have aliens and magicians all the way down to build any tension. Magicians in a sci-fi book about aliens.

What really hurts is that DC just rebooted their universe for the 633,976,031 time in the past decade. They could have easily fixed everything in the reboot.

Points for having Bats point out that by revealing his identity to the world he reduced Lois Lane to Mrs. Superman and that’s not cool. Good point.

Overall, they fixed problems by creating other problems.

Or I could be wrong. more

Two steps forward and six steps backwards. This book has some good elements in it with the story of Metallo coming back, killing of Manchester Black as he just sucked, and Lex being used as a serious villain to Superman once again. However the writing, nonsensical conclusion, and horrible artwork just kill this issue. So Superman takes Lex to jail for murder just because he said he killed someone? He admitted to murder while on the Moon. There is no evidence, no reasonable reason to arrest Lex much less hold him in jail for any length of time. Quite simply there is no believable case against Lex. It's lazy, sloppy, and dumb writing. There is also the dialogue between Superman and Batman which is just unbelievably bad regarding Superman's secret identity. The book could be good but then the writers trip themselves up. more