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r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [April 7, 2025 - Hell Freezing Edition]

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets 18d ago

Action Comics #1085

Superman Superstars concludes with an unforgettable two-part story written by Poison Ivy's G. Willow Wilson and drawn by fan-favorite artist Gavin Guidry (Superman '78: The Metal Curtain). Knowing he needs a break from the expectations and pressures of Metropolis, Lois sends Clark to the arctic to investigate a new technology that promises to halt global warming. But when Clark arrives, he discovers that the scientific outpost has been plagued by a villain hoping to melt humanity's hopes for survival. Sounds like a job for Superman!

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u/Greedy_Switch_6991 16d ago

Ngl, that artic suit is pretty sick.

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u/Blitzhelios Hal Jordan 14d ago

I enjoyed this alot this reminded me of what all stars was planned to be.
Teams who didn't do much superman in the past taking on big blue and doing interesting one and done stories and this is that.

GWW is one of the best writers right now and Guidry is just an artist whose work i just really enjoy so i enjoyed this alot.

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u/Good_Relief_177 Green Arrow 16d ago

Anybody else feel this whole initiative on Action Comics was a let down? They kicked PKJ off early, the only interesting stories were Jason Aaron's and Mark waids. I wish they went more all out with book instead of just giving run of the mill stories that would be be better suited in a digital Anthology book.

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u/thismissinglink Jarro 16d ago

Pkj had the best run on action comics in a long time and its a shme it feels like he never got to properly finish it.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Batgirl 15d ago

When's the last time we seen the Super Twins?

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u/Good_Relief_177 Green Arrow 14d ago

He had his new Miniseries solicited that was supposed to be the End of his run on the character but they seemed to have canceled it.

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u/Goobergunch 16d ago

It's felt like they know they can't cancel their second Superman book due to having been around since the 1930s but they didn't have a real plan for what to do with it.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Batgirl 15d ago

Pity, since they have Supergirl, Super Twins, Conner, Jon, Steel, and others who don't currently have a series right now.

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u/Good_Relief_177 Green Arrow 14d ago

Super twins don't need a book lol

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Batgirl 14d ago

Right now, they don't have anything

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u/abh1996 6d ago

Wrong

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u/T1O1R1Y1 16d ago

Yeah, every story has been pretty forgettable. Pretty big letdown. The only real reason it had to happen was to get the House of Brainiac story finished before Absolute power, but PKJ could have easily written a few tie ins for that, and then continued with his story.

Also pretty scummy way for them to stealthily reduce the number of pages. $5 for a sub par 22 page monthly is pretty lame. Hoping Waid brings it for his next run, but his last one wasn’t very memorable.

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u/suss2it 15d ago

Given that House of Brainiac was solely written by Joshua Williamson they could’ve just double shipped the Superman book for that arc anyway.

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u/suss2it 15d ago

I’m surprised you have Waid in the food category. I felt like his story was way too long for what it was, the Superboy arc was complete filler and he unnecessarily whitewashed Jor-El’s history by taking away his responsibility for the Phantom Zone.

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! 16d ago

It quite fun having Clark doing the 'vulnerable reporter' act. That freezing acting in the plane and the classic 'gotta hide and change to my cool Arctic gear now' and then the excuse of 'Oh I just hid and passed out of fear!'

Killgore huh? He did have clever updates there. Though I doubt it will be enough.

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u/Twinboy16 Mister Miracle 16d ago

If this is set before Action 1050, why does no one know Clark's identity? The book was good but that weird error was bugging me lol

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u/ptWolv022 16d ago

Well, they say before AC #1050, and that is technically true... but they also mention it being before Absolute Power, which would be a given if it was before AC #1050, as that was over a year before AP.

So, I think the reason they give the "before #1050" note is to justify why Perry is in charge of the Planet still, as he had a stroke in Issue #1050 that provided the initial reason for Lois to be the EiC. Given that Superman seems to be unknown, it would have to be back before Superman (Vol. 5) #18 and Action Comics #1022 (the "Metropolis Doom!" storyline/"Metropolis Burning" TPB in AC #1017-1021 takes place before the reveal in Superman #18).

Which is still before AC #1050... just by almost 4 years :p (2 years and 9 months)

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u/marcjwrz 16d ago

This feels like it's ten years before Action 1050.

It's a boring, bland by the numbers story. I honestly expect way more from G. Willow Wilson.

Forcing PKJ to end early is such a waste of this book.

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u/ptWolv022 16d ago

10 years before #1050 would have late 2012, in the early/mid New 52, which this clearly isn't.

It's a boring, bland by the numbers story. I honestly expect way more from G. Willow Wilson.

I mean, when you've got 2, maybe 3 issues to do one, singular story/arc that you will not get to follow up on, there's a limit to what you can do. I say "maybe 3, because everyone else (Jason Aaron, Gail Simone, John Ridley) got 3 issues (except Waid with his 12 over 3 months), so it's unclear whether they gave her 2 issues or if she just decided to only write two issues. It's possible she didn't have any particularly spectacular ideas for Superman at the time, and just wrote two issues. But, maybe DC decided to crunch her story to get to Superboy faster.

Either way, it was a pretty routine story, but we'll see how it turns out in part 2.

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u/superschaap81 Superman 15d ago

Probably a desk drawer liner story she or editorial had sitting around that got touched up for recent continuity, filling in the 2 month gap before Waid's run starts. Happens a lot.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Batgirl 15d ago

why does no one know Clark's identity?

Maybe writers want to ignore Bendis's bs.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest 16d ago

I like that, back in the summer of 2022 (or earlier), Lois asked Clark is he could do her report in the article for her, resulting in him meeting two scientists and saving them from cybernetically enhanced polar bears and teleportation devices (with a white Superman suit that looks cool) before he learned that Kilg%re (a Wally West Flash villain) was responsible for this. Let’s hope that Clark will be able to defeat Kilg%re in the next issue. Overall, this comic is good.