Action Comics #15

[superfangirl1]

Also it seems like Vyndtyx was responsible for Jonathan and Martha Kent death. While Clark was enjoying his senior prom with Lana Lang

Comments

[mrosa]

Hm, it seems interesting.

[darkknightjrk]

"Also it seems like Vyndtyx was responsible for Jonathan and Martha Kent death."

At least Martha's--we've seen how Jonathan dies in Action #6.

But yeah, this was an INSANELY good issue. Just when I thought that maybe Morrison was going to leave with a ho-hum ending, he drops the goddamn gauntlet. Superman vs. an interdimensional imp and his Anti-Superman Army, fighting him at every single point in his life. Shit's gonna be good! :D

[espanolbot]

He killed Vartox! Noooo! D:

[terrykun]

Vartox is a warrior and immortal! He surely was just thrown into space!

[pallas_athena]

Vartox is far too sexually attractive to die!

[terrykun]

He is Vartox... AND HE CAN BREATHE IN SPACE.

[lieut_kettch]

No! The power of his chest hair and banana-hammock protects him!

[silicondream]

Well, only 230 of 333 worlds "died instantly." When Supes and Jor-El busted the Multispear, that may have saved the remaining worlds, or at least given them a chance to fight off the Multitude themselves.

So Vartox may live! And he's riding on Super-Turtle. Or possibly vice versa.

[pyrrhocorax]

"You were Myx's favourite trick, and the King's."

*cough cough choke* PARDON ME?

[darkknightjrk]

Ah, I see what you're implying...XD

What's ironic is that we get some similar word play in Deadpool this week.

[junipepper]

So glad that wasn't just me... :-)

[ardat_lili]

So...if he wins, does that mean maybe we get the elder Kents back? Because that would be awesome.

[philippos42]

Why is someone writing about Mxyzptlk in an Alan Moore style?

Oh, Morrison. OK, a Grant Morrison style. It sort of fits now.

Still, weird.

[darkknightjrk]

How is this a Moore style?

[silicondream]

Kind of the opposite, actually. Moore is all "Do you think a 5D sorcerer would actually look like a silly little man with a derby hat?" and Morrison is all "Fuck yes they would."

[darkknightjrk]

True--though Mxy does look pretty different now, looks less human, kinda like if the Impossible Man found himself in Charlie Chapman's clothes.

[silicondream]

Oh, definitely. Both authors like to play up the inhuman, mind-blowingly complex nature of 5D beings. But for Morrison their childlike, storybook behavior is an essential part of that nature, while for Moore, it's just a mask that Mxy puts on to mess with people occasionally.

I think Morrison's 5Ders make very convincing deities--much more than his New Gods. Final Crisis and Seven Soldiers were fun, but it's hard to make the New Gods seem like anything more than alien superdudes in the end (even if some of them are extremely super.) Kirby creations are too intrinsically sci-fi for that. But the 5D beings are the sort of critters that you might actually find in a real-world religion or myth cycle.

[darkknightjrk]

See, I'm kind of the opposite. I find especially Morrison's New Gods to be far more convincing as truly epic dieties than what we saw in this issue, which basically looked like suped-up elves from a fantasy novel. But hey, you say to-MAY-to, I say to-MAH-to...

[silicondream]

I agree that the New Gods are more epic...I guess I just think of them as legendary heroes rather than mythic beings or deities you might have a reason to interact with. They're too punchable, and (except for Darkseid and maybe the Black Racer) they have too little interest in the mortal world as a whole. Whereas 5D beings are almost unbeatable physically but can be influenced through ritual, their motivations are surprisingly mundane and human even though they act on a cosmic scale, and several of them like to come down and mess with mortals all over the universe. That sounds more like a traditional god or djinn or fairy to me.

But yeah, that's just my feeling on it, not The Truth!

Incidentally, I really like that Vyndktvx attacked the wrong person because of a misleading shadow. A higher-dimensional being, fooled by a 2-dimensional image--a good reminder of his vulnerability.

[silicondream]

Note the "Chromo-Conflict 2" throwaway there. Looks like Morrison wants to keep the War of Colors in continuity, which implies that the Thunderbolt genie is still from the 5th Dimension.

[theflames]

War of colours? I tried to look it up, i cant find anything, what was it about?

[sadoeuphemist]

I think this is it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_%28DC_Comics%29#.22Crisis_Times_Five.22

[silicondream]

It happened in Crisis Times Five, a 1999 arc of Morrison's JLA. The Thunderbolt genie was established as a living "color" from the 5th dimension, and was attacked by a rival--since they were both virtually omnipotent, the battle threatened the universe. That arc established Qwsp as a 5D being, marked the first Post-Crisis appearance of Gsptlsnz, and introduced Jakeem Thunder.

[darkknightjrk]

...You know, when you put it like that, I can totally get why some people reply, "What the fuck is this guy smoking?" XD

[silicondream]

It was actually one of his more straightforward stories--I've seen reviewers complaining about it being "by the numbers." All those wacky, cartoony yet insanely powerful characters were already part of the DCU; Morrison simplified things quite nicely by sticking them all in the 5th Dimension, IMO.

The main point of the arc was to showcase the Justice Society, which hadn't gotten much love from DC Editorial up to that point.