This review is just straight spoilers, people.

I’m too pissed to be vague.






The assassination of Lois’ character continues as Bendis has her confess to her father that she’s in love with Superman and he is the father of Jon. Which means Bendis wrote Lois as giving way a massively important secret about their lives to a person who’s antagonistic toward Superman’s very existence… without consulting neither Clark nor Jon. It also likely means that the book she is writing is about her marriage/relationship with Superman like the desk image suggests.
I don’t think I have to say this to Superman fans that this is incredibly out character of her, but hey for the sake of being thorough, THIS IS OUT OF EFFING CHARACTER! As a matter of fact, everything he’s written about her since Man of Steel has been out of character and it only gets worst with each additional issue.
I get that Sam Lane may not react nearly as bad to this as his past would suggest, but it still ignores the little detail that she didn’t tell Clark or Jon she would do this before she told her father. She asked for this meeting, she planned this meeting. If Lois was in character, she would've consulted and tried to convince Clark first before even contacting her father. I’m actually okay with Sam knowing, and I’m okay with Lois telling him. It ’s the mishandling of Lois’ character that’s pisses me off. Actually, that’s my problem with everything in this run. Poor characterization and badly executed plot points. Well that and decompression. And boring villains. And just plain bad ideas.

Now for positives. I enjoyed that bit with Jimmy. That was great.
But it also makes me feel even more salty since it seems that it has the capacity to write at least ONE person in Superman’s supporting cast in character, just not the will. But hey, let me not get ahead of myself. An issue featuring Jimmy betraying or badmouthing Superman because he thinks Supes is having an affair with Lois or some other contrived drama maybe just around the corner.

Oh, and the art is nice. But the issue overall? Wouldn’t recommend.

I can't enjoy or recommend a book where poor characterization and out character actions are used to create drama.
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Any hopes I had that this will make sense are gone now.

Superman’s decision to let his wife and kid leave with Jor-EL, and Lois’ decision to leave Jon with Jor-EL makes even less sense due to the “shocking reveal ” that’s not really a shocking reveal. Not to mention Lois reasoning for leaving Jon behind and not telling Superman she’s back is not properly explored or explained.

Lois reaction to seeing Jon again completely contradicts her behavior in Action #1004.

Both the dialogue and Lois’ characterization continue to be extremely off.

If what Bendis done to the character is not reversed, it will damage any chance he has of sticking around.

I stuck around because I thought things would get better.

It has not.

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