Action Comics #0

[superfangirl1]

A boy find superman knock out momentarily by a rocket launcher and decides to steal his cape.







The boy takes himself and his brother to the train station to runaway from their mother's abusive boyfriend.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

On one hand, this story made me so happy since it's a great take on Superman and was just very heartfelt and speaks to what Superman means as a character.

On the other, it makes me sad because I know Morrison's leaving it in January. ;_;

[mrstatham]

So.. Yeah. Morrison isn't writing Justice League and the main Superman book and not making Superman a pitiful loner why?

[espanolbot]

Seems that he may have gotten fed up with DC's editorial problems like the previous Superman writer and Rob Liefeld, though he's handling it a lot more politely than the latter.

Basically there's also more money to be made in creator owned work then mainstream superhero stuff, so that might be why he's going back to going work for Dynamite and the like.

[mrstatham]

I thought Morrison was going to be leaving anyway? He hadn't exactly talked about any other plans he'd had at DC save for the potential Wonder Woman story and Multiversity, now that Batman Inc is wrapping up too. I also thought he was taking something of a sabbatical or whatever you might call it from comics in general?

[arbre_rieur]

Not comics in general. Just superhero stories, which he thinks he's said all he has to say about, at least for the time being.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

"Succotash."

[icon_uk]

Like the main plot, but that first scene rankles... So Jimmy Olsen (I assume that's who "Jim" is) is now independently wealthy and seems more than a touch cynical with a messed up family life? (And I note that Clark doesn't actually answer Jim's question about "Is she the only reason you're friends with me?")

[wizardru]

It's funny...the older I get, the more I realize how wrong I was about some things in comics when I was younger. When I was really young, Jimmy Olsen was super-cool. Then he was super-corny. Now I see stuff like this and think 'why would you mess that up with stuff like that?' Chris Sims recent 'ask Chris' about Jimmy Olsen really drove home what works about the character...and why I don't find this take on him particularly good.

I actually have enjoyed Morrison's 'Superman before he really worked out all the kinks' idea and I liked Clark Kent being a crusading blogger/journalist...an aspect that I've always liked. Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent have always had the ability to do good WITHOUT their powers. Because they are fundamentally good people and they do what they do because of their goodness, not because are criminally insane or selfish.

Jimmy Olsen has always been the ultimate wish fulfillment character...seeing him turned into a slacker? Not really a fan.

[icon_uk]

Have we seen much of Jimmy in the modernday set Superman comics? Perhaps being "Superman's Pal" has invigorated him and made him more of a go-getting "Mr Action"... well, a guy can hope.

[icon_uk]

And for those who haven't yet read Chris Sim's enjoyable piece in Jimmy, it can be found here.

[arbre_rieur]

How's he a slacker here? He seems just the opposite here, wanting and trying to become a serious photographer even though he clearly doesn't need the money.

[arbre_rieur]

I don't really pick up "cynical" from that scene. And I'd say the reason Clark never answers his question is because Morrison writes them as such close friends that there's no really doubt as to the answer.

[jaybee3]

So Jimmy has been given a messed-up childhood too now? And Clark was fixated on meeting Lois Lane like some stalker even before he actually started working with her? Why can't Superman be you know...not depressing?

[michael_ellis_day]

I've been a hardcore Grant Morrison booster since he was writing Animal Man, and considered Flex Mentallo and All-Star Superman to be nearly religious texts...but I'm done now. Didn't even get this issue. No longer interested.

[silverhammerman]

This story is nice, but I can't get over the fact that the kid's first reaction to finding Superman unconscious is to steal the shit out of his cape, rather than actually help him or something. Then again, he is a kid, and the story seems nice enough that I'll excuse it.

I'm so sad that Morrison is leaving Action Comics soon, I feel like he's finally starting to really hit his stride, and I just really like blue jeans Superman and that crazy issue with President Superman. This has been a great book, and I hope that Morrison's successor is a good enough writer to keep me buying the book.