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Friday Trending Topics: Revisiting The Strange Visitor From Another Planet

Published Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:33:15 -0600

by Mark Seifert

Last updated Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:33:33 -0600

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Rich nails it in his post on what makes New 52 Action Comics #5 so potentially interesting. Action Comics volume 1 number 1 page 1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster is the big bang of the comic book multiverse. It's the start of everything we know, and evidence of it can be detected everywhere you look, all these years later. That page has been expanded and stretched and cut apart and reassembled countless times over the years, but taking another good look at it never fails to fascinate, and often reveals something new. Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert are in the spotlight in what is likely to be one of the most-discussed post-launch books of the New 52.

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