TheBatman/Superman: Authority Special #1should be one of the number-one sellers for DC Comics, and there's a great reason why. The story is engaging and epic, it opens many avenues for future stories, and of course, it features our World's Finest team. Some serious narrative thought's gone into this issue, as well as a taste of fun superhero banter. The art is gorgeous and eye-catching, and I've collected both the initial cover and variant and do not regret it. I don't think you will either. Read Full Review

While most of the Authority doesn't get too much more fleshing out here, the story is compelling and also serves as a one final team-up for Batman and Superman before Superman leaves. But the ending cliffhanger promises there are maybe more twists coming for the Dark Multiverse. It hits on basically all cylinders and makes me hopeful Johnson will be coming back to this twisted world before long. Read Full Review

Superman and The Authority has been a delight, so what happens when you add Batman to the mix? Well, it actually somehow manages to get better. Read Full Review

All told, Batman/Superman Authority Special is an exciting story that features some great character interactions and a heck of a high-stakes story. The many artists involved do make the work read a bit jarringly, but it's an exciting adventure that uses Batman and Midnighter in really cool ways. Read Full Review

This special proved another worthwhile glimpse at Supermans new team. With Warworld dead ahead, that arc is set to begin, but Johnson raised the possibility of The Authority traveling to other earths on multiverse-spanning missions. That sounds like a great premise once the Warworld arc is over. Read Full Review

Nice little story settling the mini-feud between Batman and Superman. Nice seeing the Authority in action again. And wonderful art portraying the story. For a special, this worked very well. Read Full Review

Batman/Superman: The Authority Special shows that a creative team other than Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin can tell a compelling story with this cast characters, and I'm excited to see some of the character moments, such as Lightray going from being hero for fame to being in real action or Apollo and Midnighter working on the whole no-killing thing, expanded up on in future issues of Action Comics from Philip Kennedy Johnson. Paper-thin villain characterization aside, this book is a solid one-shot adventure with an eerie setting thanks to memorable art from Ben Templesmith plus loads of funny interactions between Batman and Midnighter. Read Full Review

As someone who loved the SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY series by Morrison, I was expecting something rather similar. However, other than the team and characters involved, that's about all that remained from Morrison's take. In all reality, this was a DARK NIGHTS Multiversal tale with a dangling carrot for the future. If you loved those events and find the Dark Multiverse exciting, this issue of BATMAN/ SUPERMAN AUTHORITY SPECIAL #1 is for you. However, if you came for SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY, you won't really find much of that here. Read Full Review

This was great and all bit how does it tie in to Morrison's run? Because there superman was much older and it was obviously different reality. Can someone clarify this for me? I feel like I missed an issue or something.

I am blessed to be reading comics during PKJ's time on Superman! To watch an epic for the man of steel being crafted before my eyes is not something many people can say they've seen; we haven't had a run this good since Moz's N52 Action Comics!

Keep going strong PKJ!

I really liked this issue, but felt that conclusion was a little rushed. Templesmith art is beautiful as ever.

Fun in its own right. I really enjoyed the Al Ghuls in this, their threatening aura toward the universe, and the stakes. I actually had a better time reading this than Grant Morrison’s Superman and the Authority. Very surprising, indeed.

Did they just tease the "Empire of Shadows" as the next potential DC company event? If so, I'm kind of down.

This issue feels more useful & entertaining than anything Morrison has done with Superman & The Authority. Since this is essentially a one shot, the story doesn't waste time & gets your from story beat to story beat. Superman & Batman have their classic interactions, the Authority has the usual characters that sticks out, & the story/premise is very straight forward. But where I think this one-shot shines is in three areas. Hairsine & Templesmith's artwork, an interesting story that connects to previous dc comic events, & lastly, Midnight & Batman's slight rivalry (more like a dick swinging contest that only midnighter partakes in) These are the three things that make this issue work for me. If you hear an announcement that Dc comics will have an event coming called "Empire of Shadows," remember you read it here first. Fun issue.

My only problem is the issue saying this is somehow the team from Grant Morrison's "Superman & The Authority" but that superman has been around since the 60s & is wearing a Kingdom Come inspired, careless suit. more

Decent book, in the spirit of continuing the Batman/Superman comic I would have wanted Yang on this because he was pretty good, but PKJ does the job here too. It's not perfect, I have some qualms with it but it's definitely better than Morrison's cringy shit.

This was pretty good. I don't think it was necessary, but I didn't have a terrible time.

Solid special, fun story with fun art

Strong issue. I loved every interaction between The Authority. Still, they lost me with the last revelation. DC really needs to leave that concept, Snyder burned it with BWL.

A bit of a miss for me. Nice art, but the story is insubstantial, and PKJ seems ill at ease with Morrison's Authority — Midnighter has to be nerfed to make Batman look cool, Natasha is barely there and the only thing that qualifies as a character moment is Midnighter conceding that Batman is cooler than him. As a fan of Morrison's Authority and PKJ's Action Comics I was really hoping for more from this.