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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.
The shocking second chapter of the Worst Bizarro Story Ever! Jason Aaron's first time writing Superman sees the Man of Steel trapped in a world gone mad, a Metropolis transformed into the City of Bizarro! While Superman struggles to save the lives of people who despise him, he's also battling the most powerful Bizarro of all...the one inside his own mind!
Much like his Batman story, Aaron has taken an iconic character and found a way to plunge them into a completely new scenario that feels thrilling and haunting at the same time. Read Full Review
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 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 more
Two things are true:
- This is about as dark a Superman story as we've seen in a long time, and in general it dos not suit Superman.
- Aaron has Superman's voice down.
So borderline recommended. And the last page does show promise for the finale.
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.
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’ impac more
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