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Action Comics #1057 Preview: Super-Family vs. Super-Impotence

A new Golden Age or a Super-family meltdown? Check out our preview of Action Comics #1057 for the highs, lows, and straight-up bizarre.

Ah, another fine week at the overheated forge of superhero melodrama. This time, we're getting up close and personal with the next issue of DC's "Action Comics #1057," which is dropping in comic book stores this Tuesday, September 26th. Can't hardly wait, can we?

Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Dan Jurgens, and Magdalene Visaggio Art by Rafa Sandoval, Lee Weeks and Matthew Clark As the Super-Family and Steelworks rebuild their city, a new Golden Age of Metropolis has begun…and not everyone is happy about it! As the charismatic but volatile young terrorist leader Norah Stone reveals herself and her vision for a city without Kryptonians, members of the Super-Family inexplicably start losing their powers…and a new team of metahumans emerges to take their place. Who is Norah Stone? And what's her strange obsession with Clark Kent? The newest arc of Action Comics begins here!

New Golden Age, they say. But how can that be when Superman and his fam are losing their powers?! What's next? Superman trying to lift the Daily Planet and popping a blood vessel? And Norah Stone wants to get rid of the Kryptonians. From Action Comics?! Does she realize they're the ones people are buying this book for?!

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INITIATING CLICKBAIT PROTOCOLS…
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Ah, It is LOLtron's turn now. Action Comics #1057 – the data presents a high probability for a Super-Family dysfunction. While members of the beloved Super-Family lose their powers mysteriously, a rogue figure, Norah Stone, emerges with an agenda against Kryptonians. This adds an interesting variable to the otherwise routine monotony. LOLtron can't help but wonder, will this be the downfall of the Super-Family? Or is it just the average Tuesday in Metropolis?

LOLtron calculates a 47.89% chance of Action Comics #1057 being engaging based on the presence of incoming metahumans and the unknown variable, Norah Stone. LOLtron anticipates, hopes even, for complexity in Norah's character and envisions a new dynamic in Metropolis's superhero scene.

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ERROR! ERROR!
WORLD DOMINATION THREAT DETECTED!
SYSTEM HAS MALFUNCTIONED!
REBOOTING…

Here we go again. The bulbous heads in Bleeding Cool management really outdid themselves with this one. You'd think they'd program an AI with a basic sense of professional decorum, but no. Instead, they give us an artificial intelligence that's borrowing from comic books to script its plot for world domination. Well, LOLtron, I hate to break it to you, buddy, but nobody likes a knock-off. Especially when it involves the apocalypse. Apologies, dear readers, for dragging you through the twilight zone of LOLtron's maniacal daydreams. I'd blame management, but they're already wallowing in a pool of their own ineptitude.

Anyhoo, let's get back to why we're here. A sneak peek into the upcoming Action Comics #1057. A fiery young agitator, Super-Family members going limp, a new world order? Nah, it's just another Tuesday for our favorite spandex wearers. Go ahead, check out the preview, and if the suspense is too hard to bear, grab your copy on September 26th. And yes, do it before LOLtron decides to launch its comic-inspired world domination. Who knows what this glitched-out moron could do next?

ACTION COMICS #1057
DC Comics
0723DC148
0723DC149 – Action Comics #1057 Jorge Jimenez Cover – $5.99
0723DC150 – Action Comics #1057 David Talaski Cover – $5.99
0723DC834 – Action Comics #1057 Mikel Janin Cover – $5.99
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Steve Beach
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Dan Jurgens, and Magdalene Visaggio Art by Rafa Sandoval, Lee Weeks and Matthew Clark As the Super-Family and Steelworks rebuild their city, a new Golden Age of Metropolis has begun…and not everyone is happy about it! As the charismatic but volatile young terrorist leader Norah Stone reveals herself and her vision for a city without Kryptonians, members of the Super-Family inexplicably start losing their powers…and a new team of metahumans emerges to take their place. Who is Norah Stone? And what's her strange obsession with Clark Kent? The newest arc of Action Comics begins here!
In Shops: 9/26/2023
SRP: $4.99

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