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Devon Sanders writes: Awesome Con in Washington DC brought together some DC Comics' best and most legendary talent to talk about their landmark Action Comics #1000 issue The Action Comics #1000 panel was moderated by The Washington Post reporter David Betancourt, and on stage were Tom King, Clay Mann, Dan Jurgens, Paul Levitz, and Scott Snyder (who arrived[...]

As the writer of Action Comics at DC, Dan Jurgens gives a voice to a superhero who represents the best of humanity, despite being an alien from outer space But when Jurgens himself went up, up, and away for an airline flight, his tweets about a fellow passenger seemed to lack a certain compassion the[...]

While it was nice seeing the Jolly Green Giant, the plot of this book is an impenetrable mess of characters, plot lines, and unanswered questions. Joe Bennett and Paco Medina's artwork gives the comic something worthwhile, but this book was massive letdown. Action Comics #999 cover by Brett Booth, Norm Rapmund, and Andrew Dalhouse Win: Superman: Action Comics #999 Puts Out[...]

Within the asteroid, he finds a crystalline material that will help him with a different problem: Cyborg Superman in the Phantom Zone. Action Comics #999 cover by Brett Booth, Norm Rapmund, and Andrew Dalhouse Action Comics #999 is an endearing one-off story which remembers what people like about Superman It also works a good midpoint between "Booster[...]

Even with the disappointing tie-ins to Watchmen, this was an exciting, relevant, interesting, challenging, inspiring series — and plain old fun. Well, today we get Dan Jurgens's final regular issue of Superman, with Action Comics #999 And on his way out, to be replaced by Brian Michael Bendis's whim, he looks to redefine the character again. We know[...]

Terrifics Unite! The Trial of Batwoman! Doctor Strange continues to be damned! There were many wins and losses this week for the comic world, and we're going to list them off here.

Even if he does, Big Blue and Booster still have to fight their way through four Kryptonians and an army of Eradicator drones. Action Comics #998 cover by Will Conrad and Ivan Nunes Action Comics finally swings back around with #998 The "Booster Shot" story finally decides to reach an ending, and it involves a super-powered slugfest[...]

Superstar artist Jock has revealed his Action Comics #1000 retailer exclusive variant cover, available in limited quantities and in several purchasing options from Forbidden Planet Jock posted the cover on Twitter. My cover for the landmark ACTION COMICS #1000 #Superman pic.twitter.com/jIvtYWzT2r — jock (@Jock4twenty) February 27, 2018 Jock also revealed the original sketch: Original sketch #ActionComics1000 pic.twitter.com/i9cfy8mrDW — jock (@Jock4twenty) February[...]

Her and Clark's son, Jonathan Kent, follows not far behind. Superman: Action Comics #997 cover by Brett Booth, Norm Rapmund, and Andrew Dalhouse Action Comics' "Booster Shot" spins ever closer to #1000 with a disheartening insistence on padding and plot tangents This arc is decompressed beyond reason, and I say that as a guy who enjoys the[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Action Comics #996 finds Superman and Booster Gold at the mercy of an Eradicator drone once more The two manage to dispatch the robot, and they find themselves in an unknown future on a world now called New Krypton (which is actually the same planet Jekuul from Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps[...]

Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner are called out to investigate mining on a remote planet. What they find is General Zod, Ursa, Eradicator, and Zod's son. Can the Green Lanterns win the day? Is it a good read?

With the shocking news breaking today that Superman will get his iconic red underpants back in Action Comics #1000, and the knowledge that "The Great One" Brian Michael Bendis will pen his very first DC Comics story in that issue with superstar artist Jim Lee, excitement is high in the comics community So when a[...]

As Bleeding Cool predicted back in August (pip pip), the most iconic aspect of the entire Superman mythology will finally be returning to the DC Universe in Action Comics #1000 That's right Superman will wear his red underpants on the outside again. A press release from DC gives us our first look at the returning trunks[...]

And to that, we say, pip pip. Now, ComicBook.com's Russ Burlingame EXCLUSIVELY reports that a Bendis Superman story will appear in Action Comics #1000, the oversized issue which will be released alongside a $30 hardcover to celebrate the milestone Not only that, but DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee himself is drawing the story. Though much was speculated about[...]

Things will only get more complicated from here. Action Comics #993 cover by Dan Jurgens, Trevor Scott, and Hi-Fi Before I start, I would be remiss to not point you in the direction of my mighty Editor-in-Chief Rich Johnston's article about Action Comics #993, which, as you can see, is where this review got its headline. Dan Jurgens[...]

Action Comics is adding another artist to its team, starting with November's Action Comics #992 Though Will Conrad was announced as the artist of Action Comics #996 in DC's January 2018 solicitations earlier this week, it looks like Conrad will be joining the title sooner, according to an Instagram post: View this post on Instagram. Steve Pugh[...]

Yanick Paquette draws the variant below for Action Comics #991, which hits stores on November 8 Justice League hits theaters on November 17. Nerdist had the EXCLUSIVE reveal of these covers, but we laugh at EXCLUSIVES Ha ha ha ha ha! See? You can check out variants for The Flash and Wonder Woman by Mike McKone and[...]

Oz is and the reveal tomorrow in Action Comics #987 It's the first part of the new The Oz Effect story arc. Oz has been popping up in various stories over the last few months and seems to know just about everything about the life of Superman But the reveal will show us more than just[...]

We mentioned the other day that Action Comics #1000 was missing from the upcoming Action Comics collections, with Vol 5 going up to #999 and Vol 6 beginning with #1001 We speculated that this may mean a trade paperback-sized #1000 along the lines of Fables #150 And we noted that the description of Vol 6[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And courtesy of stats from Diamond Comic Distributors. The charts are topped by Action Comics lenticular covers, Batman's Dark Nights Metal comic with Marvel's Secret[...]

With the story set to reveal one of the biggest mysteries of the DC Rebirth universe soon arriving, DC have revealed that Action Comics will be getting their favourite treatment for big stories: lenticular covers. The Oz Effect, starting in September in Action Comics by Dan Jurgens and Viktor Bogdanovic, promises to reveal the identity of[...]

Picked up, still hot, from the smoking area outside the Hyatt hotel in San Diego, this tip suggested that the true identity of the man who has been both observing and messing with Superman's life, taking it apart and then putting it back together, is…well, you can read it yourself, if you don't mind spoilers. But next[...]

And, since it's his origin, he managed to make a few tweaks along the way. It's still a take on the Fantastic Four – and hey, if Marvel won't publish them, why not DC? And they crash land and transform in a very similar fashion… But in the new version, Hank is skeletal from the get-go… and[...]

With the new Action Comics #977, we get to see the results of the pre-Flashpoing Superman merging with the New 52 Superman With the singular Man of Steel, we get a Clark Kent who has some foggy patches in his memory and some serious doubts Writer Dan Jurgens talks about how Clark will begin to[...]

You may have found a few Action Comics #976 spoilers on Bleeding Cool earlier in the week Tut tut. But today a few DC Comics titles are setting out their stalls regarding DC Rebirth, what exactly happened and who is in charge. Mr Mxyzptlk talks about the "he" as the person behind the splitting of Superman and[...]

The landmark DC Comics publication collects the Superman stories by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster which first appeared in Action Comics #1-4 with the addition of four new pages  The title was originally conceived as a one-shot, and was released in May 1939, but went on to become one of the foundational DC Comics series[...]

In fact, the only possible way you could have found it is by searching for it – or from a link by someone who searched for it. Because, yes, this is the big spoiler for this week's Action Comics, leaked to Bleeding Cool by persons unknown, that shows the reveal of exactly who the Fake Clark who[...]

ComicBook.com has the EXXXCLUSIVE reveal on this one, but we've pilfered the images so you can view them below: Action Comics #977 cover by Andy Kubert Superman #20 cover by Patrick Gleason The new looks will debut in Superman #20 and Action Comics #977 in April, following the events of March's Superman Reborn crossover between the two titles[...]

Today's Action Comics continues Superman dealing with, and preparing for, his upcoming death And how others are reacting to it. But we also get to see Supergirl's relationship to the DEO – a body that in DC Rebirth she will be an agent for Today we get the details of why.She is reliant on the DEO[...]

And what remaining abilities he had were stripped by Vandal Savage (as seen in DC's Legends Of Torchwood) when he was placed in a Kryptonite cell. Yes, like that, from today's Action Comics #49.Obviously he escapes but he still has after effects Just not the ones he was expecting As his body starts to feed off[...]