(Review in Action Comics #848)

Superman is an ideal vessel for this kind of story. It goes out of its way to challenge how people view faith and morality, and does so without antagonizing religion. I appreciate when a comic can be this bold with its themes, so huge credit to Nicieza for executing so well on this premise.

It's Dwayne McDuffie writing Superman. Need I say more?

From start to finish, this book is fun, funny, and violent. All qualities worthy of the Main Man. Both Kyle Starks and Kyle Hotz are now on my radar.

A fun and inoffensive romp for Shang-Chi that works for one issue. I was entertained enough. I can see a bit of promise in CM Punk as a comic writer.

Solid, fun little one-shot story for Shang-Chi. Nothing mind-blowing, but it definitely has me interested in seeing Alyssa Wong doing a mini.

For a One World Under Doom tie-in, I'm not opposed to the pitch. Doom 2099 assembles a group of heroes to combat current-day Doom and prevent his future from happening. Cool. The problem is, Frank Tieri generally just isn't a great writer, so a cool idea like this ends up being wasted because of that. I like the characters they use, but they do nothing here for me. There's really nothing that stands out. The art is doing a lot of heavy lifting for this issue. more

This is the kind of quality that I've been missing from Bendis. It's such a stark contrast to his Superman, which was coming out around this time. The art by Nick Derington is great and dynamic. The guest stars make for fun surprises while serving their purpose to the story. It's pretty rare to see a globe-trotting Batman story, and this book does it a lot of justice.

This embodies everything that Superman has always been about, and I'm glad Gene Luen Yang understood the assignment. Enough said.

As a fan of Tom King, this was the hardest of his other work for me to get into. The writing is still signature Tom King. I grew to like the titular Omega Men more upon re-reads. I feel Kyle Rayner could have been used as an audience surrogate, yet he doesn't have as big of a role as you'd expect from him being on the cover. The commentary is easily the standout part of this book. It's not subtle whatsoever, but I personally prefer for commentary to be this bold. It's not King's best work to me, but the more I come back to it, the more I get out of it. Who knows? Maybe I'll feel the same way as some of the reviews here someday. more

Mariko Tamaki is generally a very hit-or-miss writer for me. This is far from her worst work, I can say I actually had some fun with this one upon first reading, but it has quite a few glaring issues. There are ideas here I enjoy, like putting Diana and Maxwell Lord in a buddy-cop situation, and a very intriguing concept for a rogue with Liar Liar. The name is admittedly not great, but she has a fairly cool powerset and is motivated by the want of her father's approval in taking down Wonder Woman. I don't really mind the twist of Maxwell being her father. Now here comes the problem. First half of the story, despite him "teaming up" with Diana, Maxwell barely has anything to do. It gets slightly more compelling upon the father reveal twist, he wants nothing to do with Liar Liar at first, but then it's revealed much later that Maxwell was the one to give her powers by drugging her...it feels creepy in all the wrong ways. While I praise her concept, Liar Liar does absolutely nothing for the story, with her only significant contributions to the story being a decently sympathetic origin (despite Maxwell's role in it) and a visually cool final fight, neither of which we get until the final few issues. This was very clearly designed as a tie-in for Wonder Woman 1984 because of its Maxwell Lord inclusion, and while it's serviceable enough for a placeholder arc, it's unfortunately nothing memorable. more