Slipping into the world of nightmares is only the beginning as Power Girl faces off with the scariest dream of all…herself! Paige may have narrowly escaped the grasp of the devious Johnny Sorrow, but all of that was just a warm-up for the real villain inside. Meanwhile, the Super-Twins are lost in a terrifying dreamscape and being hunted by a nightmare version of their own adopted father, the murderous Cyborg Superman. Can Superboy, Kong Kenan, and the Steel family find the twins in time to save them, or will they join his bloody list of victims?
While as an event series, the tie ins for Knight Terrors have no consistency whatsoever, Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is actually really fantastic and is probably the best one of the whole event thus far. Read Full Review
Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is a great display of how creators can interpret superheroes and their nightmares. Here we have two different horror stories, but each one is an entirely separate approach. Read Full Review
Continuing off the heels of horror and intrigue introduced by Superman and Supergirl's adventures in Knight Terrors: Superman #1, this was a strong set of horror stories from two writers who aim to push the Heroes of Tomorrow into a new and impressive height. Read Full Review
The Knight Terrors crossover continues to be very successful. The simple narrative device of throwing everybody into their own nightmares actually manages to find quite a few different ways of being novel. And all of the writers involved are doing a pretty good job of making them feel like something other than clich. Its pretty rare that a big summer crossover like this comes across as being anything other than an attempt to make more money. Theres actually a narrative weight to this particular crossover, and its kind of refreshing. Read Full Review
The only missed opportunity was not referencing what is taking place in Knight Terrors: Superman, but perhaps it will be addressed somehow in the second installments of one or both tie-ins. Read Full Review
This part of the issue is one of the best overall Knight Terrors tales. Read Full Review
As fun as a nightmare can be of course, Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is just a vibe. Wall climbing, scary dark hallways, personal fears, a campy trash-talking villain, the issue has it all. Read Full Review
That is one scary ending panel! My favorite doggy gone mad! This second story was chilling. If the purpose of Knight Terrors is to show us nightmares, this story is dead on. Brrrr .... Read Full Review
Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 is a mixed tie-in for the Knight Terrors event, having almost nothing to do with Knight Terrors. The Powergirl story by Leah Williams is a miss, the Cyborg Superman story by Phillip Kennedy Johnson is a hit, and both have strong art. Read Full Review
Two for the price of one! A few of the event tie-ins have featured shorter back-up stories but KNIGHT TERRORS ACTION COMICS #1 includes two main stories which each get equal time to be told — the first focusing on Power Girl and the second focusing on a group of Super-Family members: Conner Kent, Natasha Steel, Kong Kenan, and the Super Twins. In a shocking twist for the event so far, both stories were entertaining & kept on theme!
“She’s Got No Strings, Part One” featuring Power Girl
Power Girl’s nightmare story is written by Leah Williams, with art by Vasco Gerogiev, colors by Alex Guimarães, and lettering by Becca Carey. Williams continues to show she is well suited writing for Paige/Power Girl long-term more
Leah Williams and Phillip Kennedy Johnson are clearly having fun pausing their current plots to develop horror stories with Power Girl and Super-Family. Both writers embrace the spirit of doing it and brings simple and fun stories with the "Knight Terrors" concept.
a pretty fun and entertaining issue. I like the plot of these short stories
The second story was great. Awesome art and did a great job using the disjointed theme of knight terrors to just tell a classic nightmare horror story that felt just like a movie.
PKJ story was better and a good old slasher style flick, with Williams story not being terrible but not great either. That all being said, These tie in need to be really unique to be worth reading, and this one is just ok. Not bad, but not great. Art is lovely though and the art in PKJ story might justify the purchase.
Both of the featured stories were good, but neither stood out among the mass of other Knight Terrors tie-ins. I preferred PKJ’s story over Leah Williams’, mostly because I have really enjoyed the chemistry between the Super Family that’s been established in the regular title. In terms of plot, neither blew me away, and though Action Comics is my one of my favorite DC book right now, this has been my least favorite tie-in. Still, the art was quite good in both stories, and if you like these characters it may be worth the read.
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