I started reading this series as my first Iron Man comic maybe around March 2024. I wasn't really focused at the time because I was going back and forth with my grandfather for his eye surgery and helping him daily with his basic needs so really I kind of read these in a haze.

I read up to number 24 and lost track because I got busy with life let's say. I want to revisit and start over and write down what I think because this Iron Man comic for me allowed me to start liking Iron Man beyond the MCU Robert Downey Jr. version.

So this is after the Heroes Reborn event which I haven't read, where Franklin Richards (Reeds son) starts over the whole universe or something Idk, and the only characters who didn't get reset and are trapped in the previous one are Thor and Dr. Doom.

Tony's origin story and all the things he did in the previous runs though haven't changed it seems so I don't really understand what the whole Heroes Reborn thing was about and I'm not really interested in reading that.

The world now thought Tony has been dead, Fujikawa took over Stark industry, Pepper and Rhodey watched over his main assets, and Tony in this story is in a reflective stage and questioning what the purpose of his life really is. He's not acting so much likes playboy and seems very deep in this. And unlike the films he keeps himself separate from Iron Man to protect his secret identity. Having people believe Iron Man is a bodyguard for Stark.

We have a lot of characters introduced for various reasons we don't know yet until future issues. Side characters show up at his comeback celebration from Foggy Nelson, Foggy mother, Pepper Potts who is married to Happy Hogan now, Rhodey. J.J Jameson, Norman Osborne and Starks cousin Morgan who he refers to as the family black sheep.

Tony goes through the motions and gets annoyed how everyone "knows what he should be doing". He doesn't get an answer until he gets a run in by the Death Squad who was most likely hired by Fujikawa to get rid of Stark so they can keep the company. He gets away and fights them as Iron Man. Defeating them but in the process he accidentally helped destroyed a construction building that was being built for a desperate neighborhood that was affected by the "Onslaught". Feeling like his life is a joke of destruction and than rebuilding he decided to make Stark Solutions to purely rebuild and help government, private business and individuals who can pay. The money would all go toward projects of rebuilding for a better tomorrow.

So Tony in this is very conscious and is trying to change things he might not be able to change.

Real beefy comic with plenty of dialogue to keep you busy and become immersed in this world. more

Oh okay so it looks like Peter David is keeping elements of Jim Aparros Aquaman, which I've never read but I just know about it because of the horrible thing that Aquaman goes through in it. In this ish it shows Aquaman chronicling his life still and recalling his time as King. His celebration has Aqualad Mera, Arthur Jr. and King Travis. I wonder how Aquaman was able to forgive a man who abandoned him as a baby at Mercy reef but that was probably all in the Aparros run.

Anyway Orm attacks and reveals himself as the man who almost killed Keko many years ago. He was jealous and angry because he loved Keko and was enraged that Arthur took her away. We find out that Orm is the half brother of Arthur just like in the movie so that's great 👍 but Arthur doesn't put 2 and 2 together until years later when he is chronicling his past.

Clearly the time when he is chronicling his son is dead, he is separated from Mera most likely and Aqualad I don't know. Did Aparros kill off Aqualad too or did Aqualad go off on his own hopefully will find out more because I liked Aqualad in the Silver age comics.

This is really solid storytelling, and Peter David really did try to make Aquaman be taken serious by more people at the time which is sad because Aparros seemed to have some really good stuff before and the silver age comics were actually fun to read for me. more

Peter David in this ish adds a well written tragic heros journey to Arthur's youth. Starting off in Alaska, Arthur saves a Eskimo girl from getting eaten by a polar bear. They manage to kill it together but from the ravage bear Arthur falls unconscious after the fight. Kako the Eskimo girl take shim to her home.

Her grandfather is a man who is weary of white men because he blames them for corrupting his native land and their traditional way of life. To his surprise he comes to his sod hut with a young boy (Arthur) being cared for. Despite his weariness the old man welcomes Arthur for saving Kako.

The ish also shows that Orm is not to far away but is living more like the modern times rather than the traditionalist way. He's arguing with his mother and he talks about how he was a bastard. How did Orm end up all the way here and what's the story with him and his mother? Hopefully we find out more later on.

Arthur and Kako get real friendly, and at one point Kako takes her coat off and ask Aquaman to "warm" her 😉 and they get it on. In the distance Orm was watching them f**k and later on when Arthur wakes up he finds Kako all bloodied and beaten up. Still alive but barely.

When he brings her back she gets visions of the lands native goddess treating him, but he manages to defeat her by commanding her hair of sea snakes to go after her. When he wakes up Kako is saved, he tells the family what happened and the grandfather freaks out that Arthur has angered their native goddess and dies from a heart attack. The mother screams and blames Arthur for destroying the family and makes him leave.

This has some really good emotional moments that adds some real emotional depth to Aquamans development. This imo is how you do a great backstory of a heros youth unlike the most recent Mark Waid Superboy run which is the opposite and has absolutely no emotional weight to it at all... more

Wow this was really well done this ish!

It starts off with a Japanese ship hunting dolphins with tuna nets and Aquaman describes the horrible experience the dolphins go through during their capture. A baby dolphin when it is born immediately jumps out of the water to breath fresh air. However the moment it is caught by a net sometimes it chooses to stop breathing essentially committing suicide.

The mother dolphin and the baby are thrown into the ship struggling for life and the Japanese crewman is about to end their lives and Aquaman stops it right on time.

He then goes on while writing up in his book why he feels he owes his life to the dolphins.

King Travis of Atlantis abandoned Arthur as a baby and left him on Mercy reef. Atlantean babies only able to breathe in water would lay in the water and eventually the water of the reef would recede and the air would suffocate the baby. This didn't kill Arthur being that he is half Atlantean and half human. A female dolphin found him and had a baby dolphin named Drin. Prome the mother was scorned by the lead Dolphin but she convinced the pack to hold onto the defenseless human baby.

Like Tarzan raised y apes or Romulus by wolves this was a brilliant and beautifully rendered myth come to life on these pages. We watch Arthur grow up with these dolphins barely surviving and barely fed until he adapts. He slowly learns if his super strength from a near death with a shark that tried to kill a female dolphin named Nera. And yeah he falls in love with her but he is told she is not for him and the dolphins help him discover other humans.

One day Drin and Arthur are pestering each other and Drin accidentally jumped onto the blades of a boat and dies. Arthur refuses to leave his body to the sharks but Prom makes him face the harsh reality by letting go, and from there he eventually leaves to find his own way.

Loved every page. 💕 more

So the only Aquaman comics I've read a couple years back were in the DC Showcase Volumes, so that was real silver age stuff. I watched Aquaman with Jason Mamoa tonight for the millionth time on a 4k Blu-ray though for the first time and loved it even more. I recall reading the silver age comics because of the Aquaman movie I watched on Blu-ray at that time.

Tonight I absolutely was immersed in the films bombastic unapologetically over the top world. A far cry from the themes and seriousness of the Snyder films since this was directed by James Wan but honestly I'm happy this turned out this way. The Aquaman movie is great and Momoa looked fantastic and every shot by Wan is spectacular. The use of the water effects and the overall sound design is unbeatable and it shocks me how most people sh*t on this film then and even now, while praising shallow movies like FF and Superman 2025 that have some of the worst cinematography and use of space I've seen in the superhero genre.

Well I finally decided to dive into my Aquaman Peter David collection I collected, I have the first two tpbs than the rest in issues.

TPB starts with the mini series Time and Tide and starts Curry over. Writing in his diary he explains how his mother Atlanna he believes was insane, and the stories she would tell of his lineage were the babblings of a madwoman. He then recollects about the first time he was called hero and we go back to when he was discovered in this version by the Flash during one of the Flash's run ins with the trickster. The Flash goes unconscious and almost gets eaten by sharks but Aquaman speaks to them on time.

At this point Arthur lives in a dark cave and is more creature than man. The Flash convinces him to give the surface a try, and Arthur is really grouchy and has no patience with humans in this ish.

Already the writing is solid here. more

I just have no patience at this point for Waids writing. His last arc really gave me a bad impression and this isn't doing any better here. The art is nothing to write home about and feels mostly devoid of any soul. I don't even care about anyone in here. Let alone Clark himself here, he comes off as generic and has nothing interesting going for him except the overly done "struggling teenager" persona we've seen countless times at this point in comics but not even done well here...

And Captain Comet? Dial the 🌽 cornball writing by a 1000x, what a dumb character to put into the development of Supermans youth. Oh and also in this ish a horde of locust show up and Clark uses his freeze breath in one panel so like I said in previous ish why didn't he just use his freeze breath on the fire?

Emphasis on the emptiness of soul, every character just says the most uninteresting sh*t and it comes off like a corporate pamphlet about how "were all one big happy family".

Congrats 🎉 if you enjoyed this but you would have to deprive me of any good comics for a millennia to ever get me to say any of this was worth my time. more

If your looking for something fresh, different or interesting don't look here. This is a coming of age story done a million times over.

Unless you have absolutely no background in reading literature or comics than maybe you will enjoy this otherwise it's a walking cliche as predictable as the cycle of the day.

And why the hell didn't he use his freeze breath on the fire in the school? Instead he took a water tower that he even says "a farm town like this needs" and waste it all on the school. When all the kids escaped all he had to do was ice breath or anything else but that.

Waids writing feels like he's under a gun and is unable to come up with anything really solid or genuinely enticing that one can add to the Superman mythos. more

It was okay, kind of was more excited to finish it just to be done. Art is lame, feels like a corporate safe direction, I'm not into Waids style really, and after his horrible Phantom Zoners run and Xa-Du I'm not particularly excited about this.

I mean the only nice part was when Pa Kent helped Superboy focus in on the fight but otherwise the plot is pretty stupid and again the art sucks. Feels like a baby 🍼 Disney cartoon. more

Waste of space.

This was terrible, a big fat nothing burger here. Global warming yawn. Besides that writing is practically non-existent

I would give this a higher score but the Forevers was a joke like the ish could have gone without them and just have Manheim selling telemeres to random rich people seeking mortality because the whole Forevers fight and panels were just gid awful and silly.

But I'm keeping a decently high score because otherwise the rest of the story was really good for me. We find out that Paul was innocent and didn't kill Bokyn, it was his daughter Penny who killed the man. Paul took the hit for her to make up for all the bad he did as her father. I liked how this even refers back to Harley Quinn (2018) #54, pretty sure that was the Sam Humprhies run?

I enjoyed the dialogue and the little twist nothing ground breaking or epic but a damn fine read. Superman is conflicted about this but he leaves Paul in jail and lets things flow. He talks to Lois about it and they have a nice tit for tat. I like how Lois in these issues boost her man up and tries to keep him grounded instead of trying to tear him down like in those horrible bonus stories by Rainbow Rowell during the Gail Simone runs. more

I enjoyed this ish as much as 1082. I like the dialogue and feel like the panels flow nice. It's not a complicated story but it's good and I like the side characters like Scorch too. And Manheim being the culprit behind all of this buying off Paul and others to steal there "telemeres" which are used to make others stay young and live longer. The only catch is those who lose these telemeres lose their life time and feel there time shortened, getting side effects of hopelessness and emptinnesss. more

The sole saving grace of Action Comics #1028 is that it exists outside the current "All In" disaster, sparing readers from that incoherent mess of a storyline. Unfortunately, any relief is short-lived, as this issue replaces one set of problems with another, offering up a misguided attempt to "modernize" Superman's world in ways that completely alienate long-time fans.

The central issue here is the portrayal of Lois Lane, who, in this story, is framed as the all-knowing sage tasked with helping Superman recover from—brace yourself—losing hope. Yes, Superman, the Man of Tomorrow, the symbol of resilience and optimism, apparently needs to be lectured back into shape by Lois, who draws on her "vast experience" as an award-winning journalist to play therapist to the greatest hero on Earth. This dynamic is not only absurd, but it completely undermines Superman as a character. If this is the writing that had greeted me when I first started reading Superman, I would have stopped right then and there.

Lois has always been a key part of the Superman mythos, but her role is simple and effective: she gets into trouble, cries for help, and Superman saves the day. How hard is it to understand and stick to this formula? It's classic, it works, and it gives readers what they want—a heroic Superman. Instead, this issue flips the dynamic, turning Lois into the alpha figure and Superman into a lost puppy, as if the writers are deliberately trying to invert the roles to push some kind of modern messaging. The result is a story that feels alien to everything Superman fans have come to love about these characters.

And let’s not ignore the elephant in the room: this kind of storytelling is a major reason why sales are in the toilet. The people in charge seem to have no idea who their audience is or why Superman has endured for decades. Readers don’t come to Superman for forced ideological posturing or "message over myth." They come for stories of hope, heroism, and inspiration. When you discard those core principles for the sake of fixing what isn’t broken, you alienate the very audience that made these characters iconic in the first place.

In conclusion, Action Comics #1028 is a case study in how not to write Superman. It takes everything that made the character and his world timeless and replaces it with a heavy-handed attempt to reshape the dynamic into something unrecognizable. It’s frustrating, disappointing, and another sad example of why the Superman franchise is struggling to connect with readers today. more

Wow an Action Comic that was actually pretty solid, not perfect but you know after those last 10 or so trash issues this deserves a 9 just for changing the direction.

What I really appreciate about this issue was it's focus on Clark Kent this time around. We've had a lot of Superman the last few arcs so it's refreshing to see Clark going around doing some old fashioned journalism. The beautiful inky and heavy art of Inaki Miranada doesn't hurt this ish either!

So this ish goes back and refers to an issue all the way back to the late 700'snwhen Superman made Major Disaster turn good... But here he's caught trying to rob a bank and accidentally murders someone in the process, as soon as Superman shows up though Paul (Disaster) surrender no fight.

As Clark he goes to other villains turned good like Mighty Bruce and Aubrey Sparks (Scorch). Both have similar explanations that most metas still have to live regular lives and some just can't stay on the straight and narrow facing normal problems your average Joe faces with the addition and extra temptation of having super powers in the first place. Clark wants this answer to be beyond a "it's society's fault" kind of answer to Paul falling back on crime, but is finding no other conclusive answers to this betrayal of his trust as Superman.

The dialogue is meaty and feels like a good old fashioned talkey comic which I like when done right like this. It ends with Clark getting attacked and somehow actually getting cut and KO'd by a mysterious figure. Whoever did this has to know Clark is Superman and used a weapon capable of doing damage. more

Is it finally over this arc? So rushed and lackluster all around.

Oh wow Xaa-Du was really Martian Manhunter fooling the Zoners in the end. What is this Scooby-Doo?

And now it's back to total garbage. The only purpose this ish served was having Xa-Du return from the pit Aethyr threw him into. Otherwise it was a compilation of meaningless hunting and capturing of generic uninteresting Zoners.

This is really creatively bankrupt to say the least...

Can we have a massive kill off of characters soon? Kill the entire Super family with the only one who survives is Conner. Boom there is your #1100 issue ending. Kill them all and focus back on Superman. Put all the supporting characters back where they belong in supporting roles. (Ex: Lois, Jimmy, Perry White) Make Action Comics a Superman book again. No one cares about these characters. The only reason I buy every month (Week now...) now is to keep my run going, it isn't because of the writing or art. more

Reluctant to give this a better score than 2 that I've given previous issues but this was less frustrating and annoying to read through. Maybe it's the art it's too simple and too cartoon but I like the simplicity. The colors pop out real nice and the simple line work makes reading the rather horrible story more bearable.

But this whole Phantom Zone breakout feels unoriginal, rushed, and with so many heroes in this comic showing up it falls flat. I mean Dr. Light shows up which is pretty cool idea but it's only like one or two pages.

Superman getting almost killed by a gang of Phantom Zoners in the heart of the zone only to be saved by Mon on time was pretty nice. But Waid is not living up to his rep in this Superman run I've seen better from him. more

What a ride, that was like watching Batman v Superman when they had to go up against Doomsday except in this it was a Super Skrull against Ms. Marvel.

Bro if I could give this an 11/10 I would! Adriana Melo has been hitting home run after home run with these war issues! The carnage, the destruction it's very dynamic in this and the flow of reading is mesmerizing and enticing panel by panel. Last ish and this ish Melo conjures up some really iconic moments for Ms. Marvel that look like they should be in film. As I'm reading this ish I'm thinking we should hire Zack Snyder to direct some Ms. Marvel movies and other Marvel stuff. Marvel needs some dark like this run has baby.

Oh and we find out that the Skrull that destroyed Carol's ship two three issues ago had the power of Nitro so when Carol punched her she blew up. We find this out here when Carol is being outnumbered by a horde of skrulls and she finds a skrull showing similar signs as the female one who blew up. That little detail filled in the gap nicely for me.

Again can't get over Melos cinematic feel to this like the first couple of pages Ms. Marvel walks out of he smoke and just looks so badass and beautiful at the same time.

You see feminist, you can have a female be badass and feminine at the same time, eat me!! more

So I'm not reading the Secret War comics while reading this but I know the overall jist of Secret War anyway mostly from watching The Avengers Assemble Cartoon the 2010 version. I already know about the skrulls using all the different powers of the superheroes so it's no big deal that I didn't read the main event. I'm here for Ms. Marvel and maybe one day I will read Civil War and Secret War.

Anyway this is carnage and beautiful action throughout. Some panels have some magnificent Ms. Marvel poses and she really doesn't hold back here at she goes full War-Mode here. She doesn't even care if she scares the civilians she's doing what she has to do to defeat the existential threat of the skulls and she does it beautifully 💜 more

Damn this series is not afraid to shed blood wow!

So the captured Skrull doesn't tell the team much except for the fact that William has been captured by AIM and is in Orlando. The team tries to locate him and finds a false lead. Carol gets pissed off that she can't find Will and goes off on the female Skrull captive. Throwing her around and threatening her, the Skrull laughs at Carol's futile attempts and somehow blows herself up. There was no explanation on how or maybe this was all a set up to begin with.

The explosion takes down the Lightning Strike Ship kills most of Carol's crew except for the main cast Machine Man, Sleepwalker and Sum. Although Sleepwalker almost died because Rick was near death.

All the soldiers were killed, whether in the explosion or falling from the sky to their deaths. Carol is horrified and blames herself yet again especially after finding their Doctor horribly mangled in the debris.

After all this the team takes a break and Simon and Carol have a heart to heart 💞. Confessing all her past misdeeds, killings and poor decisions to Simon, Simon refuses to tell her that she is a piece of sh*t like she wants him to, and they end up mashing it and f**King finally!!

But it leaves you off with the feeling that they just kind of used each other to decompress from all the insanity. I think the story is going to lead to Carol being in love with the Kree William. But hey at least Ms. Marvel and Simon f**ked they deserved a good time with each other. more

Nice so we quickly have the two Ms. Marvels face off and prove which one is real. We also find out I was correct that William is a Kree and is not dead. The Skrull disguised as Ms. Marvel shape shifted into the dead William previous ish. He got away. But why did he run if he is a Kree why didn't he fight?

We also find out here the Agent Sum goes all the way back to ancient China 1300s and fought against Khan. It doesn't say what he is I guess he's just immortal like Wolverine? Does he have the same thing (obviously not Adamantium), so that would make Sum older than Wolverine because doesn't Wolvy go as far back to the American Civil War? Correct me if I'm wrong.

I must say Machine Man is both funny and creepy at the same time. Like why the hell does he have a Monica Rambow robot fetish?! What is going on here?!

It was cool too see the Lightning Strike Team go after Carol too some great panels work in this ish throughout. more

Love it but I will miss Lopresti's art 🎨 nonetheless Melo is good to. This ish has a cool throwback to an older Captain Marvel or Ms. Marvel comic that shows Carol when she worked at NASA with Captain Marvel. A skrull attempted to kidnap him and Carol killed the Skrull and saved Marvel. It turns out that Skrull she killed has a son in disguise as the X-Men Colossus doing some seedy things with AIM up in the beginning of the ish.

I was right that Carol is not a skrull and some Skrull is walking around like her. Nonetheless no one trust her. She calls William after he rejects her at Sarah's bidding, and he is with the Skrull Carol unknowingly. He quickly figures this out and tells Carol to come quickly.

She's too late and finds William dead on his bed. Agent Sum finds her with Williams body making it look like she is the Skrull.

Is William really dead? I don't think so but it certainly was a sweet twist 🪢 more

Critics gave this a 7 oh my God even back then these "critics" were snorting something unnatural... Okay where to start because this ish has to be by far the best of the best in this run in terms of action, pacing and overall execution...

Carol with her Binary powers goes after the Brood Queen and throws her down onto the island. Cru shoots the Queen in the skull and show sup in her original form thanks to her and Carol's bond. As Carol and Cru talk for a moment the Queen sticks her tail through Crus head and throws her like a ragdoll into a body of lava. This was brutal and badass, and the panels of Queen and Ms. Marvel back talking and beating the shit out of each other was fraggin awesome 😎👍

Carol's Binary powers shut off and she has to face the Queen on her own in a weakened state. (I want to add the artwork for when Ms. Marvel goes batshit crazy with her Binary powers are amazing work).As Carol and the Queen go at it, Ms. Marvel takes the nuclear bomb that the Queen took away from Sum and drags the Queen up into space. Taking a deep breath 🫁 Carol puts the bomb in the Queens mouth and shoots it with her photons. The Queen is invincible so the goal was to make sure the nuclear detonation impact would shoot the Queen away from earth 🌎 and hopefully goes far far away at least for the foreseeable future.

Carol crashes to earth into the ocean falls unconscious and is eventually picked up by Wonder Man. All of the Lightning Strike Team characters have their little conclusions and I guess move on with their lives. Anya is happy to see her dad and was forced to really grow up from near death. Machine Man is happy to have a male body with new weapons again, but Carol isn't too happy and there's this really good inner dialogue.

She says "I don't really have a home. I don't have a family. I have William I think--And there's Simon, even though I've brushed him off to many times lately."

She goes on "Listen to yourself Carol. You suck. Life sucks. Everything sucks. Yeah. I know. But Cru aside from powering me up made me face myself. Who I was. Who I am."

There's a nice contemplative four panels of her sitting in the shower thinking "I rush into things blindly. Or I run away from them entirely. I am a coward and a killer." She is very hard on herself and isn't that what makes a hero a hero? Peter Parker is like this and same with many other heroes. I noticed in the modern Captain Marvel they would never even think of writing Carol like this at all especially in the horrible movie.

So the comic ends with Iron Man talking to Sum about the Skrull Invasion of Superhumans. He accused Ms. Marvel of being a Skrull this whole time. BULLSH*t I say!

This was a great way to end this story arc and really makes me think it would have been a great film if done right like this and with the right actress and costume design and supporting characters like Sum, Machine Man, Anya, Sleepwalker and of course Wonder Man. I would love to see this as a movie but nah instead we get Resting Bi**h face Breech Larsonm shame.... more

I have to stop using the word epic for each Ms. Marvel issue for the sake of redundancy so I will use a proper synonym such as marvellous (pun intended).

No but seriously, in this ish we get a bit more backstory which helps me because I never read any of the older comics with Ms. Marvel. So the Brood Queen was responsible for doing experiments on Carol and turning her into Binary I'm pretty sure. And at that time Carol escaped killed all the Brood and took out the Queen. Although she crystallized and became invincible instead really. As Binary Carol destroyed the Space ways and the Brood planet so how the hell did the Queen end up on earth if she lost her means of travel?

Secondly the Brood Queen makes a damn fine villain for Carol. She is a stark contrast, a giant hideous alien monster that seems to destroy all life and have Brood dominate the food chain.

Carol fights back with the loss of her powers due to Cru not finishing her power transfer. Cru lies dead in front of the Queen and the Queen impales Carol through the stomach and kills her. Leading to a glorious battle cry that two of the greatest enemies of the Brood lie dead.

Simon and company finally arrived at monster island only to be greeted by the victory-induced Brood flying all over the sky. The team is slowly getting overtaken by the horde and the panels are so well drawn and placed I swear it felt like watching a classic movie in my mind. Sum comes to the conclusion that if this is it he'll take em all out with the nuclear bomb inside their ship. Anyas reaction to this moment was great, this wasn't a game and now in mere seconds all of their lives could end in a flash.

Of course right on que because remember this is a comic (a damn fine one at that) Ms. Marvel and Cru connect and transform her to fight back. She's got a beautiful new design for this new form too to 👢 boot!! more

The pacing here is top class, I was reading horrible comics these past couple of days like the new Wonder Woman and some of the latest Action comics and it was a challenge just to get through those. This ish and last were just pure pleasure.

Simon, Sum, Machine Man, Anya and Sleepwalker figured out how to track Carol whose on Monster island which is in the Bermuda triangle.

The rest is about Cru and Carol struggling for control of Carol's body as they fend off Brood on the island. We learn more about Cru and that her people turned her into the ultimate weapon to get vengeance. According to the panels Cru is equivalent or as strong as Carol's Binary form. Although I doubt she's that strong maybe close.

There was some great inner conflict with Carol and Cru was breaking down her character to get to her mentally creating some tense and dramatic scenes. The dialogue is still as smooth as butter and each character for me retains a unique voice I can visualize in my mind.

The action flows great in here, still amazes me how this comic didn't get much eyes.

Ends with a great full page revealing the Brood Queen she looks great 👍 more

This was epic, I enjoyed the Puppet Master Arc but that was really just a nice break and now we're getting to the real meat here baby. This was a pretty epic ish with plenty of subplots still going strong.

So Cru turned out to not be the enemy of earth that we were led to believe early on in the series. Instead Cru is the last of her species that was completely wiped out by the Brood. Coming to Earth has not been fully explained why yet but Cru and Ms. Marvel learn to combine their powers to prepare for the coming Brood Queen or go extinct.

The Brood are coming as it ends, I love the Brood. I don't know what came first I think Warhammer beat Marvel too the punch nonetheless The Brood is Marvel's version of The Tyranid and I love that.

William Wagner has been calling Carol back wanting to talk to her despite being black mailed by Sarah. Simon also is finally opening up more to Carol telling her over the voice machine how much he misses her. Who will end up with her?

One other awesome panel was during the fight in the beginning Sum gets blown to smithereens and is nothing but a skeleton. He somehow regenerates next panel as if nothing happens. What or who is Sum really? If I had to guess he's some kind of Kree maybe?

Machine Man loses half his fraggin body, and in the middle of the ish he has an Life Model Decoy (LMD) that came with his sign up toward the Lightning Strike Team. Funny enough it's not a male body but his head gets screwed onto a female body that freaks Anya out. What the hell is Machine Man up to?

And Sum is unable to call the Avengers or SHIELD because according to Simon they changed old codes but doesn't say why. (Most likely because of the Secret Skrull Invasion going on during this time). more

The art improved marginally, story is still dumb.

Action Comics #1077 is, regrettably, a perfect example of how a story can promise grandeur yet deliver nothing of substance. The issue postures as though it has something significant to say, yet it leaves readers with what can only be described as a "Big Nothing Burger"—a hollow and unsatisfying narrative experience. Its flaws are manifold, but the most glaring offense is the utterly wasteful B-story featuring Supergirl, which not only fails to add value but actively detracts from the overall narrative.The supposed drama of uncovering the secrets of the Phantom Zone and escaping its clutches fails to generate any meaningful stakes. What should have been an exploration of identity, legacy, and moral fortitude instead feels like an uninspired checklist of clichés. Yet even this lukewarm effort pales in comparison to the absolute misfire that is the Supergirl subplot. Billed as an exploration of "the crime that started it all," this B-story instead serves as little more than an afterthought—a filler segment devoid of purpose or intrigue.In sum, Action Comics #1077 fails on multiple levels. Its Superman narrative is a shallow, unfocused exercise that lacks the courage to delve into the deeper themes it hints at. Its Supergirl B-story is not just a missed opportunity but an active detriment to the issue. Together, they form a book that gestures toward significance but ultimately delivers nothing of value—a true "Big Nothing Burger" that leaves readers hungry for the substance this iconic series deserves. more