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Action Comics, Vol. 3: At The End Of Days (2013)

by Grant Morrison(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

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Science Fiction

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DC Comics

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Action Comics Vol. II

review 1: If you've read my review of Vol. 2, well, this is even more all over the place; literally and figuratively.The reveal is that Mr. Mxyzptlk is in human form, in a coma, married to Clark Kent's landlady (who revealed herself in Vol. 2) and they're trying to fight off Vyndktvk (Vindictive? as in: having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.) PERFECT name for a bad guy from the 5th Dimension. That part just made me smile once I actually tried to say his name out loud.Ya, confused yet? Me too. Since he's 5D, he's been setting up attacks on Superman for all his life, past, present, and future. You also find out that he's been the mysterious figure in the earlier volumes, with brown hair and glasses. He can attack Superman anywhere, anytime, and is doing so becau... morese the only person who ever stopped him before was Jor-El, Superman's father. But it was impossible to stop him, so...Superman must do the impossible. (This seems to be the gist of the whole book, that Superman CAN do the impossible, and we need to remember that - I agree with Grant Morrison, that our Superman needs to be smart to go with his brains, which many people have forgot over time.)As for specifics, shit gets weird. So that's why I try to highlight the good intellectual/philosophical focuses of Morrison's work before I tell you how utterly batshit it gets at points lol.YE BE SEEING MILD SPOILERS BELOW...but I don't think it will ruin it.Superman gets stuck in the Phantom Zone, by a dude Jor-El sent there (the first one actually) and who's now escaped. There, he runs into Krypto, and a Stranger. A Stranger in the Phantom Zone....a...wait for it...Phantom...Stranger! Not THE Phantom Stranger? Why yes, once he gets his sweet hat (Clothes make the man as he says). That was actually cool. Then he gives Superman the clues he needs to get out.A Mars mission is attacked by a multitude of Angels...and they all seem to die, as Superman cannot save them...Smallville, Lana and Clark at prom, cops arrive to tell him...someone is dead.Current/just future world; a posse of Kryptonite powered people? I think...go after Superman and hunt him down.His landlady (princess of the 5th Dimension and love of Mystic Mister Triple X) explains what the hell is going on, just in time to seemingly bite it.The 31st Century, Legion of Super-Heroes has to figure out a way to break into the last time machine, where they plan to go back in time to figure out how to (a) stop their future from happening, and (b) save Superman, and (c) look epic.Krypto kicks the shit out of people trying to hurt Supes. (That's why I'm a DOG person! Super Cat would probably be busy asking to haz cheezburger.)Remember Vol. 2 Calvin Ellis? The Baddie that showed up in his world? Well, the baddie arrives in our world thanks to Lex Luthor.Superman gets ass handed to him by evil Superman Robot, who turns out to be Doomsday as well...only to be saved by...Lex Luthor in a Lex suit: ONLY I GET TO KILL SUPERMAN!!!!Then, the Comet Crew (remember Captain Adam Blake and his team of wacky super-brained galactic kiddie kidnappers? Me either...lol jokes.) return to help out, along with 6 year old Susie, Lois' niece, who now has the touch of her badass powers too.Then, what was predicted to happen in Vol 2. ends up happening...by the way the Robot Doomsday also now seems to be Vyndktvx as well...so yay? All is good? Maybe? Superman has done the IMPOSSIBLE!Best story is about Krypto following Clark around in his Phantom Zone form. Then there's some more random shit at the end: JL fighting monsters, then Supes has to go meet Neil DeGrasse Tyson to look at Krypton in a telescope; we see about the Imps on Earth, we see some foreshadowing for the Legion of Super-Heroes, and we get a touching goodbye between time travelling Clark and Jonathan Kent.Whew. Thus endeth the Grant Morrison Action Comics Superman Reboot. Not Epic, but not boring either. If you made it this far, congrats, you win...nothing but the satisfaction of having finished!Of the 2, I'd recommend Vol. 2 more than 3, because it's...umm...more grounded in ridiculous as opposed to insane? Either way, very creative man, Mr. Morrison. But lots of drugs.
review 2: Oh Grant Morrison I read and hear about how great a writer you are. I hear people call your writing legendary and epic. So I keep giving you chance after chance to show me something. And you keep letting me down. Now maybe I am just a dummy but your stories are so hard to follow with little or no explanation of events combine that with characters that appear that I am not familiar with and this makes for a confusing read. Now I did enjoy his New Xmen run because I knew a lot of the back story, but with both Batman and Superman I am totally lost. If you are not a die-hard Superman fan you will not enjoy or "get" this series. Sorry Grant I tried. But don't worry I will probably get sucked in again. less

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