Action Comics #1024

[superfangirl1]

Superman finds Deputy Fire Chief Melody Moore. And flies off, devastated shaken by her death because he couldn’t help her.

Comments

[angelophile]

Yep, that's some Bendis dialogue alright.

[dan_ingram]

It's the Bendiest!

...couldn't resist

[lieut_kettch]

“What’s the Bendiest?”

“This dialogue.”

“This dialogue?”

“Yes.”

“It’s the Bendiest?”

“That’s what I said.”

[armycat23]

Yep, i dont have a ton of experiance reading his work.....but from what I have read of Ultimate Spiderman and Young Justice? Its not good.

[scorntx]

Ehhh.
Sometimes, such as with characters like, say, Spider-Man, it can work.

The problem is when it doesn't work. Which, when he's not dealing with street-level characters, is a lot.

[thanekos]

" I'm looking at my blindspots. Yes, even Suicide Slum. "

[zachbeacon]

I did kinda like that Jen Van Meter retcon that Suicide Slum has magic obscuring it. It make Supes seem less negligent.

[jlbarnett]

I just kind of like the idea that Suicide Slum has the kind of problems where he can arrive in the aftermath but not in time. When someone pulls a gun out of their coat and shoots and Superman is five miles away, he's not stopping the bullet

[coldfury]

Well, that's rude Kara. He's 50% a clone of your cousin, so that makes him your first cousin once removed.

You know, more or less.

Unless Kryptonians don't get really hung up on that sort of thing. Also, what *are* the rules about who gets to remember Connor?

[scorntx]

I think the "rule" is that before writing anyone interacting with Connor, the writers roll dice to see what happens.

Presumably, if they roll a 1, the characters mistake Connor for Krypto.

[zachbeacon]

He's a good boy.

[icon_uk]

Didn't Kara have an absolute hate on for clones when New52 started because they usually turned into destructive bizarros or something? Or was that a different Kara/Supergirl/Earth/timeline?

[coldfury]

God, I think you're right, based on her interactions with the short lived New 52 Clone Superboy, but given how many times the Super-continuity has been blown up over the past 5 years who knows at this point.

[silverhammerman]

It just hit me how odd it feels to see the pre-New 52 Superboy milling around in this book as a supporting character. After Bendis brought back him and Impulse in Young Justice, neither has interacted with the rest of the DC Universe in any meaningful way, they've just stayed these weird artifacts rather than starting to fit into the broader narrative.

Also, weird for Jon to call Supergirl "Auntie Kara" given that she's like, 5 years older than him. Unless it's a private joke, but that wouldn't seem appropriate for the context.

[zachbeacon]

Family is weird. Granted, given how I refer to my own relatives, I'd have Jon calling her "Cousin Kara".

Also, given how long ago they were born, Kara is much younger than she should be and Jon is much older (both because of crazy sci-fi reasons) so do with that what you will.

As for Conner and Bart's relationships to the wider DCU I hope this gets addressed somewhere because I think I read Young Justice is getting cancelled.

[scorntx]

... there was an issue of Flash just last week where Bart interacted with Iris.

... that doesn't really count, does it?

[icon_uk]

It's a lovely cute moment, so it certainly SHOULD!

[scorntx]

Should, but don't.
Now, if it had happened just after Bart came back, which was... what, two years ago? Maybe things'd be different.

[chalicother]

"Also, weird for Jon to call Supergirl "Auntie Kara" given that she's like, 5 years older than him. Unless it's a private joke, but that wouldn't seem appropriate for the context."

It just reminds of when I was reading tutor and one of the kids in second grade didn't realize they were the Uncle to the other second grader. They just described the other child as being thier sisters kid.

[zachbeacon]

I love Brainy hugging the globe.

[phantomfo]

Wasn't there a bit during the Byrne run where Superman raided an Intergang warehouse specifically because the lead lining made it stand out to his X-Ray vision?

[icon_uk]

Quite possibly. I do remember him finding where Joker had hidden a kidnapped Lois, Perry and Jimmy because Joker had assumed that Superman couldn't see lead so had stashed them in lead coffins.

[matrix_dragon]

I see the red mist idiot has decided to double down on her 'look how awesome I am' nonsense. And by killing another Bendis introduced character (Who was actually kind of nifty)

[cricharddavies]

But don't worry, her death will motivate the actually important characters!

Oh, wait, isn't that kind of an unfortunate trope?

[icon_uk]

I suspect there's a certain grim irony in a firefighter being fridged.

[matrix_dragon]

I'll be honest, a supporting character in the Metropolis Fire Department? I loved that idea, it had potential for character and action scenes, along with storylines. Instead Bendis kills her off as the latest attempt by Bloody Fart to prove how amazing she is.

[super_fly]

I've heard of this one, it's on the tip of my tongue
Madams in cold storage containers?

[ap0cryphal]

I came to rag on Bendis being Bendis but good god JRJr, what happened? I mean, the part where everyone looks exactly the same thing is old hat, but this is all flatter than cardboard.

[bruinsfan]

I think it may be a case of time catching up with him. He's been drawing comics since the 1970s after all. I think if a new artist turned in work like that they'd be told to come back when they learned how to draw, but you can't really say something like that to one of the legends of the industry.

[ap0cryphal]

Then maybe its a good time to pass on the torch to new artists? It's not as if this run is predicated on deep ties to continuity and nostalgia, so why not make it more enticing to new readers?