Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Gene Luen Yang, and Dan Parent As the forces of Norah Stone's Blue Earth take control of Metropolis, Superman dusts off his Warworld weapons and armors up alongside Steel to take their city back! Can even the House of El defeat this potent new threat? Meanwhile, the shocking true identities of Norah Stone's mysterious family are revealed, building to a battle royale for the ages! A pivotal issue not to be missed! PLUS: The conclusion to Gene Luen Yang and Viktor Bogdanovic's New Super-Man of Metropolis, and Dan Parent (Kevin Keller) explores the world of Jon Kent like never before!
The mystery of Norah Stone and how she can affect the Supers' powers has been fascinating for a while now, but this issue's big reveal calls back to one of Johnson's earliest DC bookswith a dangling plot thread that I hadn't ever expected to see again. Read Full Review
So two out of three stories being good ain't bad. And again, I'll miss Johnson on Action. Read Full Review
Two out of three stories isn't bad especially given their quality. It'd be nicer for the main story to get more pages and cut the backup, supporting stories to just one. Read Full Review
Action Comics #1059 isn't bad, but it's not good. It falls kind of in the middle when you take in all three stories in the issue. Read Full Review
Action Comics #1059 represents the good, the bad, and the ugly of comics. Phillip Kennedy Johnson's good story contains a big twist reveal, Keenan King's lackluster resurrection and fight with China's Batman is clunky enough to be bad, and Dan Parent's pointless Jon and Jay date is made ugly with Sauvage's washed-out art. Read Full Review
I’ve come to expect quality from PKJ, and he delivers this issue, though it isn’t as strong as what he has given us over the course of his run. A solid twist makes me excited to see how he finishes his Action Comics tenure, though.
And, as always, I could have done without the other two stories. I appreciate the Kenan story expanding on Lex’s mind wipe in 1050, and it added some depth to Kenan’s joining the Super-Family.
The Jon story just made me groan. The dialogue was stilted and the story was pretty boring. I liked Tom Taylor’s Jon series, but now the character doesn’t have much to do.
I wish the main story was longer. I enjoy the classic super hero dialogue and epic moments. It's really good fun and demonstrates Clark's integrity as a father and leader. The super family is really coming together. The side stories aren't bad but just not what I am here for.
A good lead story, a mediocre middle story with Super-Man, and a poor Jon Kent story. I’m done paying for a title that’s deteriorated over the last 3 months despite good work from PKJ, and will follow it going forward on the DCUI app instead (the lead feature, anyway), where it’s not costing me anything extra.
That's it. I'm done with Action Comics. If DC is gonna do a supes family thing then I think it's cool to use AC to spotlight different members of the family and I love anthology movies so this is a lot like that but if that's the plan then they MUST bring in talented writers to do it. PKJ is fantastic but I'm not gonna pay five bucks just to read a little bit of his story then get two stories that are just not up to snuff. The Kong Kenan story was meh and the Jon story was total ass. Date night in a book called ACTION comics??? WTF? At this point Jon is just trotted out to act as a gay caricature instead of a gay hero. Oh wait, I mean bi hero....yeah right. Kind of insulting instead of empowering.
Ugh...This book is just 3 kinds of aweful.
I didnt pay the extra money that Action Comics costs for an Archie back-up story. I want more action in action comics. I guess I expected too much.
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