PKJ Action Comics Discussion and Spoilers

[Betinayen]

I’d kill to see this adapted in animation which is probably the only place we could see it get adapted right now. Warworld in a big enough budget would be a horrifying spectacle.

Finally get the full Federeci variant cover!



https://twitter.com/phillipkjohnson/...700782089?s=21

this art is so beautiful and clark is so hot with greying temples

[Superboy-Prime]

I’d kill to see this adapted in animation which is probably the only place we could see it get adapted right now. Warworld in a big enough budget would be a horrifying spectacle.

Finally get the full Federeci variant cover!



https://twitter.com/phillipkjohnson/...700782089?s=21

Very fortunate that Mongul happens to be fighting a depowered Clark.

[Last Son of Krypton]

Do Batman's dozens of appearances throughout the DCU each month add up? Whenever you have multiple creators all working with the same character in the "present day", the chronology of stuff is never going to match up perfectly. Once you add in the editorial cluster&%$# that was involved in the creation of Morrison & Janin's story and the subsequent course-correction, I think they did a pretty great job of getting everything to line up.

If it really bothers you, just pretend that any remaining inconsistencies are an aftershock from the destruction & recreation of the entire Multiverse...or a wizard did it.

Batman doesn't switch age and "power level" in books that are meant to set up the same storyline. 🙃

Ideally, Morrison's book should've been left as its own thing instead of squeeze it in-between page 9 and 10 of AC #1035.

PKJ says soon the backups in Action will shift to tell the background of Mongul and various gladiators

Sweet was hoping we’d get to see some of the background he’s been hinting at for these characters!

This is a better use of the extra pages.

[The Frog Bros]

That's got to be an improvement on the lackluster Tales of Metropolis backups we have been getting.

Agreed. PKJ isn’t sure if he will be writing them or someone else will, personally hoping for Dan Watters since he’s a great up and coming writer who worked on the Songs of the Lost Children tie in to The Last God

Warworld gladiator related backups will be an improvement for sure. While I didn't find the recent one necessarily terrible, and I do like the Guardian, it def was not the greatest of fits in the larger context. Also took a weirdly dark turn when they showed that guy kill himself.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

Batman doesn't switch age and "power level" in books that are meant to set up the same storyline. ��

Ideally, Morrison's book should've been left as its own thing instead of squeeze it in-between page 9 and 10 of AC #1035.
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There was nothing ideal about the launch of 5G and its subsequent scuttling. You're either willing to accept the extremely minor continuity hiccups that result in that kind of giant editorial changeup or you're not.

However, if you're willing to accept that a guy can appear in dozens of comics ever month, then you should absolutely be able to accept that Superman has been suffering from the rapidly increasing effects of radiation sickness for the last few months but was covering it up and that a four issue miniseries took place in between the panels of another issue.

[Thor-Ul]

Very fortunate that Mongul happens to be fighting a depowered Clark.

It was not fortunate. It was planned.

[Vordan]

It was not fortunate. It was planned.

Yeah PKJ seems to be hinting that Mongul has been orchestrating events to get to where we are now. Warworld is powering itself with red solar energy, Mongul showed up in the last issue riding one of the Breach creatures. Finally got a Mongul who can scheme again without falling back on the Black Mercy!

[Thor-Ul]

Yeah PKJ seems to be hinting that Mongul has been orchestrating events to get to where we are now. Warworld is powering itself with red solar energy, Mongul showed up in the last issue riding one of the Breach creatures. Finally got a Mongul who can scheme again without falling back on the Black Mercy!

You should do a checklist on your page. It seems like PKJ lurks on there. Or it was convengent thinking?

[Vordan]

You should do a checklist on your page. It seems like PKJ lurks on there. Or it was convengent thinking?

Hah I wish, but nah he’s just posting stuff on Twitter. I linked to some of what he’s saying in the last page here:

PKJ says soon the backups in Action will shift to tell the background of Mongul and various gladiators

Sweet was hoping we’d get to see some of the background he’s been hinting at for these characters!

Looks like Mongul actually has ties to the Breach we saw in The Golden Age

[Gaius]

I've only been following this run through here tangentially, the most recent issue a good jumping on point?

[Last Son of Krypton]

There was nothing ideal about the launch of 5G and its subsequent scuttling. You're either willing to accept the extremely minor continuity hiccups that result in that kind of giant editorial changeup or you're not.

However, if you're willing to accept that a guy can appear in dozens of comics ever month, then you should absolutely be able to accept that Superman has been suffering from the rapidly increasing effects of radiation sickness for the last few months but was covering it up and that a four issue miniseries took place in between the panels of another issue.

What I can say, it didn't worked for me. And I read Morrison's SM as an older Clark who changed his perspective with age (like Morrison described him in interviews) not present-day SM but poisoned.

[Vordan]

I've only been following this run through here tangentially, the most recent issue a good jumping on point?

Sure if you don’t care to learn how the Authority was formed or why Clark isn’t bringing the League, you can just jump in with 1036

[Gaius]

Sure if you don’t care to learn how the Authority was formed or why Clark isn’t bringing the League, you can just jump in with 1036

The gray temple hairs explain it all to me. He's having his mid-life crisis and started hanging out with younger folks. No different than a suburban dad buying a Ferrari.

[The Frog Bros]

For one thing, it seems like PKJ is quite adept at utilizing Manchester Black as Superman’s perfect foil; using his over the top cynicism to specifically illustrate what makes Clark great. In particular, that one scene where Black is yammering on about how Supes is lame and Lightray just wants to know what it's like to walk a day in his shoes wanting to help everybody… I was curious to see how he took it after Morrison, but he's got it down so far.

The sexy grey hair Dad looks works pretty well, but we sure never want to see him go full Dad-bod.

[Superboy-Prime]

Please, if he needs Superbrat to become Superman then let's just see dadbod Clark!