Once again, this was a solid issue of Action Comics, nothing spectacular, just good, decent stuff. Read Full Review

The issue also marks the debut of Rucka and James Robinson's Captain Atom back-up serial, but I'm not sure what else to say other than I have no idea what to make of it. The story sees Captain Atom battle a horde of Orc-looking creatures in some unspecified time/reality, with Rucka and Robinson declining to give the reader any foothold. There's some nice action, and a quick cut scene to the Atom's time in the JLA adds some intrigue to the set-up, but the story still suffers from being far too enigmatic. I have a lot of questions about Captain Atom, chief among them being whether or not he remembers his unfortunate turn as Monarch in Countdown. By holding their answers so close to the chest, Robinson and Rucka made me less interested instead of more. The back-up certainly didn't justify the dollar hike in cover price. Read Full Review

While I am not keen on over-paying for my comics, the Captain Atom adventure given to us here is almost enough for me to consider buying the next issue -" just for that. The main story of "Action Comics" seems on a course to intersect with the events in other Superman titles, so Captain Atom may not have to lure me back all by himself. We'll see what Rucka and Robinson (together on "World of New Krypton," Robinson writing solo on "Superman") have in store for us and how engaging that story might be. Read Full Review