Lovingly embracing the zaniness of Bizarro, this issue of action also applies that zaniness to Jason Aaron's signature needle drops. Read Full Review

This issue is worth reading, however, the pacing is a glaring problem that may result in readers less than enthusiastic about the story. If not for the story, the art alone makes for a great read. Read Full Review

Action Comics #1062 turns the world upside down and backward when Bizarro's spell goes global. Aaron and Timms really capture the isolation and hopelessness Superman feels when all attempts to stop the spell fail, but the plot and themes feel uncomfortably similar to better-known literary works. Read Full Review

There's a potentially interesting twist at the end, but the breakneck pace taken to get there almost makes it feel like it has less impact. Read Full Review

Hopefully this is a hoax or vision. Maybe there is a magical time travel element that will undo this. Because the whole world is on fire here. A killing Superman who lets the world be destroyed and teams up with a sane Joker. If that was the solicit, I would have skipped this book. Read Full Review

Look, Aaron has his tropes and they're very present in this set of issues. Some other brave comic fan could probably place pages upon pages of very different comics together for comparison and notice the very apparent repetitious use of tropes. For instance, in order to establish scale, Aaron will often point to disparate locations and people and show how they react to an incident. He did it in this story, and he did it Avengers, and he did it a lot in Thor. It worked better in Thor since Aaron's prose has a sort of mythic vibe to it, which is well complimented in Thor. In a Bizarro story, it doesn't quite work as well.

This isn't a bad story, nor is it nearly as exciting as I'm guessing the editors at DC wanted. It's pretty good. It's fun enough. I don't have much to say about it. more

Waffling between a 7.5 and 8 but reading other reviews that I agree with made me side on the 7.5.

Don't get me wrong. I like this story overall. This is a pretty dark take on Bizarro with this not just being a Bizarro world but one filled to the brim with malice from Bizarro's experiences. As people have said though, a lot of time and space is used to show how the world is reversed. Personally I dont mind this as much as other people and can dig it but get why it bothers people. What bothered me more is that Superman somehow has saved everyone even though everyone is killing themselves all the time, like I get he does a great job showing that Superman is pushing himself to the absolute limit (which he did very well and I do feel like Superman is really being Super in the sense of pure endurance and perseverance), but at least have some losses to add some impact.

I also like how it shows what other characters were doing and that this is indeed a world wide event that likely only Superman can save them from. Another con though is how abrupt Aaron goes between Superman in control and when he gets taken over, its like 1 panel and its so abrupt it really pulls you out of the story. Didnt like that one bit.

The ending is something I saw coming from the start (i.e. if everyone is reversed where are all the villains doing good stuff/saving the day?) but I still enjoy and I do look forward to the final issue of this. All in all I think it will be a great Superman story but this was the weak middle issue. more

this issue had a lot of exposition that made it a chore to read, but the ending got me hooked and made it more interesting.

A single page of Bizarro Joker is already miles ahead of Zdarksy's Joker

Meh. Had the potential to be good but failed to do so. Thankfully it didn't have the "Super Family" in it but that only went so far. The main problem is that the story involves magic...So any problem can be explained away with use of magic. There is no real risk here. Also, the motivations of Bizzaro are muddled. Why wouldn't he just us magic to bring back his own lost Bizzaro World? Anyway, an average story with good art.

After an exciting, well-written first chapter, this new chapter turns into a mess. A little Bizarro goes a long way. A lot of Bizarro makes for a muddled, inconsistent read, and to make matters worse, the writer throws in a time jump and doesn’t consistently follow the backwards logic he laid out. We end up a story in which Superman needs to battle an adversary inside his own mind, which Chip Zdarsky has struggled to do with Batman on that title for 20 months. Very disappointing issue, though the art was very nice, hence the above average rating.

All that chaos, people jumping off bridges, fires, etc, and "no one" has died? Pl-eeez.
Personally, me liked "funny" Bizarro better. There are enough twisted evil villains. Occasional comic relief is not so bad.

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RKS - Mar 24, 2024

BINGO! Not every villian has to be dark. Some of them should remain silly or even sympathetic. Showing that not every situation requires a punch to solve.

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The second chapter of the “Live Bizarro or Die” story was a letdown for me. I struggled to care about a scenario that has been down before (Metropolis falling under a Bizarro spell) and whose execution left a ton of plot holes.

We got way too many pages of exposition telling us about all the opposite actions happening across the city. We get it. Everyone is infected and acting as their mirror self, but “opposite” didn’t always feel the same for individuals and everyone wanting to die felt like an overkill. I enjoyed the scenes that focused on Superman’s own struggles with the Bizarro virus. It felt pertinent to a larger narrative but it felt like it was minimized to focus more on the grand scale of the virus’ impact. I think that was a miss. The twist at the end could make for some really interesting storytelling if it’s given a chance, but I worry it’s going to come and go too quickly based on how long Aaron is getting on this story. We’ll see though!

Aside from the story, John Timms and Rex Lokus partner for a really great looking comic. There’s an awesome 90s nostalgia to the artwork which I really enjoyed. The panels featuring the utter chaos of a Bizarro-infested Metropolis were a great to look at even if their story was a bore.

Overall, if you’ll likely enjoy this story if you really love Bizarro. If not, you might be left wanting more. more