Action Comics issue #1024 Preview/ discussion (spoilers)

[Superlad93]

[Superlad93]

Double post

[rpmaluki]

I can't see anything.

[Superlad93]

If you can't see it here's a link https://comixwire.com/2020/08/22/pag...cs-1024-comic/

That site is odd. Soon as other sites get the previews, I'll switch up the images.

[Frontier]

Romita was not kind to Melody Moore's hair.

[Robanker]

Romita was not kind to Melody Moore's hair.

I'm just glad she's back. She's one of the new Metropolitans that I liked.

Anyway, she just got off the job. Intense heat, smoke and ash does a number on hair. He's drawn hair fine before. It makes sense she doesn't look her best right after that.

[Frontier]

I'm just glad she's back. She's one of the new Metropolitans that I liked.

Anyway, she just got off the job. Intense heat, smoke and ash does a number on hair. He's drawn hair fine before. It makes sense she doesn't look her best right after that.

Honestly I think it's more Romita.

[Robanker]

Honestly I think it's more Romita.

It is, but I've seen him draw hair better than that. I think it's him going "just wrapped a helluva work day." I'm not his biggest fan, but that's how it looks to me.

[Masterff]

Just seen the Preview and I am pretty underwhelmed.

The whole story arc was underwhelming for me and also this preview doesnt make me excited for more.

[Superlad93]

Bumping this thread because the picture are fixed.

[Myskin]

Read it (very quickly).
What a waste spoilers:

of potentially interesting characters

end of spoilers.

[Superlad93]

Solid issue. Really liked the whole vibe of the FBI raid of the Planet, and just how Clark interacts with it. I really dig how messy the whole situation with the identity reveal and Lois and Clark doing their jobs is. "Did you know it's made of Lego" made me laugh, and so did Brainy hugging the globe lol

The scene with Moore really threw me for a loop because it genuinely did seem like she was gonna be mayor, but then I guess that would be too optimal. In the context of this whole mob fight, blood needed to be drawn on Clark's side. And we more or less show that Lois and Jimmy are invulnerable by proxy, so it was a solid move to go with Moore. She's reasonably altruistic, ready to change things, and was targeted before for asking too many questions and talking to the press. And Cloud connected her to Clark from their last attack and her giving him dirt on the mayor.

Seems like Bendis has settled on "auntie Kara" rather than "cousin Kara" from the Unity Saga. Technically the latter is proper, but I dunno about anyone else, I'd use auntie in that situation too. It rightly ages Kara up too. Speaking of, really dug her being the "big" cousin for a moment there with Clark. I like connecting Dr. Glory to this. So, funny enough she's the new Lex.

The scenes where it's the whole family looking for Leone is great, and that page where they find Whisper is fantastic.

[Digifiend]

Jon calling Kara "Auntie" is just plain stupid. Not only is she NOT his aunt - his only aunt is Lucy Lane, Kara is Clark's cousin, not sister, and thus is Jon's cousin once removed - but also, they're roughly the same age. There are cases where a mother and daughter have kids at the same time. The mother's youngest kid would be the daughter's kids' aunt or uncle. But if they were the same age would they call them aunt or uncle? Not likely.

[Superlad93]

I don't know many people who actually call their older cousin once removed "cousin" this or that. I certainly don't. I was perfectly fine with it staying "cousin Kara" like in the Unity Saga when they met up, but I'm personally more receptive to "auntie Kara". Don't really care if it's not the proper term.

And I'm in favor of making Kara feel more mature (like how she was consistently drawn as taller than Jon during the Unity Saga), so again, I'm all for it.

[rpmaluki]

Jon calling Kara "Auntie" is just plain stupid. Not only is she NOT his aunt - his only aunt is Lucy Lane, Kara is Clark's cousin, not sister, and thus is Jon's cousin once removed - but also, they're roughly the same age. There are cases where a mother and daughter have kids at the same time. The mother's youngest kid would be the daughter's kids' aunt or uncle. But if they were the same age would they call them aunt or uncle? Not likely.

My cousin's daughter calls me aunt so it's not at all off for me (African culture). I don't think family dynamics and who calls who what is set in stone for everyone. I've had a case where someone younger than me is sometimes called "big" simply because of how much they take care of everyone around them as if they were indeed a big brother.