Superman and the Authority

[sifighter]

Superman and the Authority #2 Preview
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artists: Mikel Janin, Travel Foreman, Evan Cagle and Fico Ossio

Okay see I like how Janin is showing this, because it doesn’t feel like Superman is becoming powerless but instead has gotten a bit older since he started and this is him staying in shape like a professional body builder.

[Thor-Ul]

BATMAN/SUPERMAN: AUTHORITY SPECIAL #1
Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON
Art by TREVOR HAIRSINE, JONATHAN GLAPION,
and BEN TEMPLESMITH
Cover by RODOLFO MIGLIARI
$5.99 US | 48 PAGES
Variant cover by JEEHYUNG LEE
$6.99 US (Card stock)
ON SALE 11/2/21
Following Mongul’s brazen attack on Earth, Superman’s world has been turned upside down: conflict between Atlantis and the surface world, the discovery of an immensely powerful new element, dead refugees with mysterious ties to Krypton, and expulsion from the Justice League! When Superman re-forms the experimental, antiestablishment Authority to join him in liberating Warworld, Batman comes to them with a request: join him for one unorthodox, off-the-books mission first, one he could never ask the Justice League to be a part of…and one he doesn’t expect everyone to come back from.

Manchester White?? Or is he just stealing more of Jenny Sparks?

[Quinlan58]

Lowkey looks like they forgot to color him.

[kalai]

Still wondering about the timeline,
Morrison said it's like the main universe, but in Action, Superman doesn't have that cool new suit,
so still a little confusing.

[Thor-Ul]

And the grey temples just add more confusion.

[witchboy]

And the grey temples just add more confusion.

The grey temples definitely add to the confusion. If it is "main universe" then it's near future, which always winds up being an AU anyways. And things like the way the JFK scenes play out make it super awkward to accept that it's main universe when it's clear that wasn't the original intention.

[kalai]

The grey temples definitely add to the confusion. If it is "main universe" then it's near future, which always winds up being an AU anyways. And things like the way the JFK scenes play out make it super awkward to accept that it's main universe when it's clear that wasn't the original intention.

I think Morrison pretty much just said Superman is "lost in time",
so it was some Time Travel mumble jumble that got him in the 60s,
also the line about several different King Arthur,
so I think Morrison just brushed the scene off.

[kalai]

And the grey temples just add more confusion.

I'm guessing what happened in PKJ's Superman run affected Superman so he lost his powers,
then he goes on to be Morrison's Superman and Authority,
then he come back to PKJ's Action Comic,
but the shift back and forth between suits just isn't helping.

[Timothy Hunter]

Is Covid a factor to why the sales on the first issue were so middling?

I would've thought that a first issue of a Grant Morrison Superman comic would break the 90-100k range, but has Covid comic stores sales this much?

[Vordan]

Lowkey looks like they forgot to color him.

I think it’s just artistic license.

Still wondering about the timeline,
Morrison said it's like the main universe, but in Action, Superman doesn't have that cool new suit,
so still a little confusing.

They said issue 4 will be the one that ties in with PKJ Action. It looks like Supes is just wearing that outfit for recruitment.

Is Covid a factor to why the sales on the first issue were so middling?

I would've thought that a first issue of a Grant Morrison Superman comic would break the 90-100k range, but has Covid comic stores sales this much?

Maybe but DC in general simply isn’t getting much attention right now. Nothing outside of Batman is selling very well, probably because they didn’t do a linewide relaunch.

[HsssH]

Why are we getting 4 artists on #2?

[Vordan]

I thought Janin finished this already, but given he was supposed to be on the Action book in Sept and is not, I have to assume he is actually still drawing this. Weird, but Fico is an amazing artist and the rest aren’t too bad either, so it’s not all bad.

[Hypo]

I thought Janin finished this already, but given he was supposed to be on the Action book in Sept and is not, I have to assume he is actually still drawing this. Weird, but Fico is an amazing artist and the rest aren’t too bad either, so it’s not all bad.

There are worst fill in artists for sure but considering Morrison supposedly wrote this back in 2018 the need for fill in artists just points to poor scheduling by DC.

[BBally]

Love that older Christopher Reeve look there.

[Ascended]

Still wondering about the timeline,
Morrison said it's like the main universe, but in Action, Superman doesn't have that cool new suit,
so still a little confusing.

My guess is that the timeline will go "PKJ's big Super Event that's supposed to be as big as Death of Superman" which will lead to Clark being lost in time (which is when the JKF scene takes place). Clark returns to the present in Morrison's S&tA. When the Super Event ends, Action will pick up after the events of S&tA.

Basically, we're reading Authority six months early, and the regular titles will catch up at the end of the Event.

Is Covid a factor to why the sales on the first issue were so middling?

Almost certainly, though the real question is how much of a factor it played.

DC isn't doing crazy good right now anyway, and Super books struggle to break through their usual sales bracket. And this is a mini, not a regular ongoing, and that might not help.