Action Comics #973 Storytime

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Folks might want to read Superwoman's first arc before this...

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Nice to see elements from the Lois and Clark mini start to bleed in.

>>89752013

Oh shi-

>>89751978

I like the look of those HB trades

>>89751978
this is my favorite in the line

>>89752059

God fucking damnit Clark...

>>89752085
Based big belly burger

>>89752093

Interdasting...

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>>89752005
I'm sorry, but who does he have locked away here? Also, is that a bat-robot?

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JLA: >>89752154

>>89752160

From the Lois and Clark miniseries, prior to him officially replacing Nu52 Supes.

Blanque is a super psychic that can easily and quickly cause mass destruction, as well as control others.

>>89752144
GET READY FOR KEK

>>89752068
Does that seem eerily Supermany thing to do? "Ooops, Clark Kent is such a klutz he just fell and nudged you out of a way of a bullet!"

>>89752186
Is he the only one we know of? There's some kind of fluffy monster guy, some chick and others in there too.

Just one of those "I don't know if they've never explained it or I just missed that issue" things.

>>89751994
Just six tons of rock to block the opening of the Fortress of Solitude? That's kinda weak for Superman security.

>>89752085
now I'm wondering what a Drizzle Doodle is, I bet it's delicious

>>89752152
oh good, I thought Clark was gonna be Hank Henshaw as Cyborg Superman reprogrammed. At least this gets rid of that. Thought of that at the end of the last-arc. Glad this disproves it though.

>>89752152
>possibly incoming PRIME TIME
>now the other half of Cyborg Superman has appeared

Interesting. Good issue.

>>89752205
Yeah, this Clark is straight up silverage but for some reason he also has the same favorite foods as Post-Crisis.

Plus him disappearing like that, I dunno, fortress said he was 100% human, and Hank just showed up, we know he's going to become Cyborg Superman again.

So if he's human he can't be Prime, but if he's being goofy he can't be PC Anti-Matter Ultraman either.

You know what though, this story is extremely similar to Reign of The Supermen.

We've finally got Steel, Hank, Eradicator showed up earlier, now all we're missing is Kon-El.

Clark being Kon would explain the foods and the creepy way he hits on Lois, his personality is very similar.

>kid dream diet
>exactly like Clark, but creepy
It can't be Prime, they're laying it on too thick.

>>89752097
Didn't she visit the Fortress in Superman Rebirth?

>>89752361
Oh man, well spotted. Well spotted indeed.

Ah, so those tweets from this title's artist were all about Lois' date with this Clark then.

>>89752361
Bring back Kool-el

>>89752013
Uh, should I read this after this week's Superwoman?

>>89752379
that was superbros fortress. Pre-flashpoint superman made his own tiny one after getting stuck in the n52 timeline.

>>89752144
Lois about to get PRIMED.

>>89751987
cute jurgen

>>89752605
no, Superwoman has been trash

>>89752021
who the fuck is cotton

>>89752045
>just flat out talk about their illegal activities
>laughing about it

what the hell jurgens

>>89752363
but this is Jurgens. It could be exactly just that.

>>89752085
why is it just Belly Burger and not Big Belly Burger

>>89752093
spooky

>>89753142
editor

>>89753199
Saying that the belly is big is fat shaming.

>>89753243
but i like em big

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>>89752093

>>89752152
It's going to be Superbro's Fortress ain't it?

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>>89752569
It probably is him, last time Lois interviewed all the fake Supermen in order to see if they were the real Clark, and Kon did look exactly like Clark when he was younger.

So this whole thing seems to just be a Rebirth/52 retelling of Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen.

At the end of Reign it turned out Superman wasn't dead, but this time we saw Superman turn into ash.

However Eradicator in the original comic was occupying Supermans corpse, he was just an energy being and took his dead body.

Later it turns out that Superman was in a Super Coma and Eradicator taking his corpse was never explained.

This image is him waking from the coffin beneath the Superman statue.

So either Clark is Kon which now seems likely as he was half human anyway and could just have his Kryptonian half suppressed or we could have another Eradicator situation on our hands since Jonathan is currently Superboy.

>>89752152
Hank and Prime time. Sooooo good.

>>89752093
lolwut
I didn't expect the spoopy turn

>>89752361
Wait, Hank Henshaw is back?
The active cyborg-superman is Supergirl's dad, Zor-El in her ongoing, as established by the previous retconned continuity.

>>89752152

The idea of Hank and Prime has me kind of excited.

>>89754589
Hank is back in this issue, I assume you read it?

In the other Superman book where he saved Lex, a character looked into his future and we saw Hank Cyborg Superman.

Zor-El was in the new Supergirl recently, got his shit pushed in pretty bad, also that book is pretty bad, it's heavily taking from the TV show messing up comic continuity.

>>89754655
Yeah....I keep forgetting that Rebirth hints on using multiple versions of the same character...badly.

>>89754701
it's weirdly set up, it looks like it's trying to go back to PC or get to it as close as possible, which is fine with me as most if not all of the 52 versions are far worse than the originals.

Nothing near PC Comet The Superhorse but some of them are pretty close.

>>89754701
>hints
the thing opened on lmao 3 jokez

>>89752112
>Steve hoverboarding

>>89753823
Eradicator got defeated in the first arc of Superman though. He won't play a role here.

>>89754749
I didn't mean Eradicator showing up later, I meant the red herring of him occupying the corpse of Superman.

>>89752068
I almost forgot how much of a klutz clarks supposed to be

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>>89752085
"The little kid dream diet"

Prime Time is trying to brake free

>>89755159
can't be Prime if he's human and his origin doesn't add up.

>>89752144
Oh, this is definitely Prime

>>89755255
Prime punched himself a new origin then punched himself human

>>89755297
I don't think Prime ever displayed reality warping powers other than the time he freed himself and Kal-L from the bubble universe.

Speaking of which, this Clark is much closer to Kal-L than Prime.

People who keep saying he's prime are just following the crowd and probably haven't read any actual prime stories. Nothing about this guy suggests he is prime

>>89752361
On the other hand, him going "LOIS YOU CAN'T REFUSE A DATE WITH ME" is pure Prime. From living with Pre-Crisis Clark and Lois, from watching Post-Crisis Clark and Lois, and from reading the comics on Earth-Prime, he knows Lois and Clark are supposed to be together.

He feels entitled to it, and he can't conceive the idea of being turned away by her.

>>89755389
no it's closer to Kon-El than Prime, Kon was always a wash-out with the ladies and would always ask them out in really creepy ways.

Prime was a dork who was all muh continuity while Kon actually wanted to emulate Superman as much as possible.

Prime has never shown interest in Lois before and Kon was half human, this would be a nightmare for Kon, being the two things he hates, human and lame.

He did have the hots for Lois in Reign of The Supermen.

>>89752075
Mags! Where's Kate? I know they aren't together anymore but I miss them so

>>89755443
I'm not saying it's 100% sure that it's Prime, the test that found him to be human is certainly an issue.

Prime also wanted to replace Superman, and spent an eternity living with and watching older versions of himself living a life he wanted.

He was also still a teenage, psychologically speaking, so the food and the awkwardness with women would also fit. It's kind of messy, but he only appeared to be an adult after absorbing too much energy. Admittedly, he was back at looking like a kid at the end of Teen Titans before Flashpoint, so him being seemingly an adult here is another problem.

Just don't discard Prime as a possibility yet. That cover with the bloody Superman symbol is one hell of a hint... or a red herring.

>>89752144
Im going to go out on a limb here and say we got Saturn Girl lurking around why no other LSH. Could fake Clark be someone from the future sent back to help a Durlan perhaps maybe Reep Daggle. It explains why he knows everything about Clark hes from the future and as far as the scan I'm sure brainy could rig something up to fool our technology. Him and Saturn Girl could be sent back to resort Clark's identity.

only thing that doesn't fit any theory is in the beginning issues he had thought boxes were he thought he was Clark. Which makes me think Him Superbro and Superdad are all the same person and somehow split and will be recombined to make a whole Superman that fits in this earth.

Read a most interesting spoiler about Superwoman, won't say it here, but it really gets me giddy for Reborn next month now

>>89755708
Throw a spoiler tag on it and say it

>>89755644
The thing is that this is Jurgens and he wrote Death of Superman and most of Reign of The Superman, these are for all intents and purposes his characters and it appears that this arc is really just a way for him to get his versions back into continuity.

First thing he did in Rebirth was bring in his version of Doomsday, now we have his creation Cyborg Superman showing up here.

Johns created Prime, Jurgens didn't create Kon but essentially established him as a character in Reign as well as Steel.

Superman Rebirth has been paralleling those books, more closely now than before but it's more or less the same story.

Taking that into account it makes less and less sense for Prime to show up here.

couldn't he be that fire guy who Superbro died fighting didn't he think he was Clark?

>>89755835
That guy is dead, there's also another Superman in China that isn't Kon Kenan that hasn't been touched on at all or even sort of explained.

He broke out of a containment facility just before Superman 52 died and we see what appears to be him later in prison but we still don't know who or wtf he is.

>>89755897
>That guy is dead

Yeah like being dead in a comic book has stopped anyone beforre

>>89755745
I've been noticing paralels with Reign of the Supermen since right after Superbro died, but with Superdad, SuperLex, SuperLois/SuperLana, SuperKenan and Mystery Clark.

And yeah, there's Steel and now Hank Henshaw.

I guess what I'm saying is, it's been a retelling of Reign for a while now, just not exactly with the same players.

>>89756001
Ben Reilly never came back and he turned to ash just like Superman 52, although we didn't see orange guys body he just sort of exploded.

I suppose it could be him, but he didn't look like Clark.

>>89756019
Right, however the super women have been more or less completely irrelevant up until now and Supergirl has had absolutely 0 input on her cousin dying or with any attempt to meet his replacement which is really weird.

Didn't Superman 52 leave her with a dying message for her to carry on his legacy or something like that?

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>>89755255

Prime was human on his Earth after Legion of 3 Worlds. He paradoxed punched himself. What >>89755297 is literally true. Prime punched an alternate future version of himself and got spit out onto Earth where his parents found out he was a bad guy in a comic and they grounded him.

I shit you not.

And it was glorious.

He then goes and starts trolling DC forums.

>>89756101
and then he got a Black ring and somehow turned it into the Phantom Ring before the Phantom Ring was a thing, and it was never addressed anywhere else ever.

It was weird.

>>89756101
He had powers on that world though, Black Lanterns came after him after he tried to kill the staff at DC.

>>89752144
Get PRIMED!

>>89756089
>Ben Reilly never came back and he turned to ash

Clearly you have read the new spider-man event hes back

>>89752112
>>89752123
JIMMY!

>>89752144
My theory is that he's superboy all grown up somehow...

>>89756148
Didn't Marvel just reboot itself?

Well that only took 20 years, I hope they don't fucking ruin him, he's been dead the longest and his death really meant something.

>>89752144
They actually drew Lois as looking older this week. So my question is how come nobody else notices how she's obviously older than Nu52 Lois?

>>89756177
>I hope they don't fucking ruin him

Bad News hes a bad guy now and wants to bring uncle ben back as a clone

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>>89756204
that's no funny man, you better be fucking with me

I think hes Zod back with plastic surgery from the phantom zone and trying to get his ultimate revenge bang Kal-El's wife.

>>89756238
I'm not kidding you hes the jackal now (still not kidding you) its pretty bad

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>>89756284

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>>89756238
Proof

>>89756124

Harnessing the entire spectrum has been used quite a bit. Kyle did the same thing at the start of the New Guardians comic.

>>89756125

Yeah but he was human with human parents. Prime has gone through some shit. There's Countdown and that Teen Titans thing. We don't talk about those.

>>89756363
In infinite Crisis he was Kryptonian and bragged about only being able to be affected by kryptonite from his universe

So he retconnned himself?

Didn't he also kill Laurie and his parents?

>>89755255
I can't believe everyone forgot about the fact that Dr. Manhattan is fucking shit up in the universe.

An anon posted spoilers a while back saying that this Clark was a de-powered Prime living in fear of/memory-wiped by Dr. Manhattan. Looks like that's the case. No way is it Kon.

>>89756247

Zod has Faora, why would he want to downgrade?

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>>89756385
It's all Manhattan yo.

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>>89756322

>>89756381

Yes he retconned all of that. He was transported to our world and got grounded and trolled DC forums. Got his powers back and attacked DC.

It was implied he killed his parents and Laurie was a black lantern and what happened with her wasn't mentioned.

There was also a redemption angle but that never really led anywhere.

>>89752093

Manhattan's interference?

>>89756385
It looks like Ozymandias but from the Back it looks like Time Trapper, Prime was Time Trapper at one point.

Manhattan fucking around and whatever is fine but Prime should be able to take on someone like Manhattan if not the only thing in existence that could take on Manhattan.

>>89756363
>Harnessing the entire spectrum has been used quite a bit. Kyle did the same thing at the start of the New Guardians comic.
Yeah. But no one ever explored what happens when a living person who has never died and come back puts on a black ring. Only happened to Prime, and he rouletted through the spectrum just like Laminski with the Phantom Ring.

It would have been an interesting aspect of the black rings if explored further, but they didn't. I almost wish they hadn't introduced it at all.

>>89756391
Who said hes leaving Faora shes evil to they will probly tag team her. This is strictly business... evil Business

>>89756457
For all of his (wildly fluctuating) powers, Prime should in no way be capable of fighting Manhattan.

Maybe Captain Atom will end up at his level, but not Prime.

>>89756610
Well Prime is powered by the Silver Age, that alone should make him invincible, if he wasn't a complete idiot like he usually is.

>>89752085
- Sir, you want to jokerize those fries?

>>89752144
>That shit-eating grin
it's Prime

>>89754589
>Hank Henshaw is back?
Back when Kal was hiding in the shadows and letting Nu52 Supes hold the mantle, Kal had a checklist of people he knew hadn't become villains yet and was watching over to see to it they didn't (e.g. silently preventing the kinds of accidents that led to their creation). Hank was top of his list, I believe.

>>89755022
>how much of a klutz clarks supposed to be
Not since CoIE. The only guy who should even be dimly aware of that cover identity is Prime.

>>89756124
>It was weird.
Prime's entire job is to do shit that contravenes possibility even by comic book standards. It's what makes him remarkable. It's also what makes him infuriating when casuals bring him up as an example since they don't understand he is the living exception to any given rule.

>>89756177
>he's been dead the longest and his death really meant something
So did Barry Allen's

>>89756381
Don't forget Prime was also the Time Trapper

>>89758238
Everyone's been the Time Trapper.

>>89756610
>For all of his (wildly fluctuating) powers, Prime should in no way be capable of fighting Manhattan.
>Maybe Captain Atom will end up at his level, but not Prime.

CA taking on Manhattan comes solely from the latter being an expy of the former but it doesn't necessarily mean it works.

Manhattan is some generic reality shaper who thinks the DCU is his personal fucking sandbox.

Prime is the literal manifestation of meta with a power set controlled only by his rage, an emotion Jon Osterman can't even remember.

The only reason Prime is not de facto God of the DCU in all of its iterations is because his anger and stupidity trip him up. But unless Manhattan puts on a Flash costume, he's fucked eight ways from Sunday going up against Prime playing his A game. He could literally dematerialize Prime into subatomic particles but I seem to recall that didn't do much to Manhattan, either.

>>89758266
> tfw you were busy that weekend helping someone move and missed your chance to be the Time Trapper

it still hurts

>>89752144
>beef bourguignon
yup he's a superman

>>89758491
yeah when Waid said "HE SEES AURAS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN A VEGAN" I thought "time to take Mark out behind the shed"

>>89758346
>Manhattan is some generic reality shaper who thinks the DCU is his personal fucking sandbox.

We know nothing of Manhattans motives or if its even Manhattan. We have been lead in that direction but still have yet to see or hear from him.This could all be a curve ball and Manhattan could not be involved at all.

>>89752152
Hank also appears in the latest Supergirl issue.

buump

>>89758949
Might be Adam.

>>89753199
This is the ORIGINAL Belly Burger. They're different restaurants.

>>89752093
It's superbro back from the dead to be... obnoxious to the living?

>>89758949

Pandora's death and the final scene's on Mars confirm Manhattan.

What is even happening any more

>>89761551
been confirmed to not be him

>>89761681
the only thing that confirms Manhattan is seeing Manhattan. Also it confirmed nothing of his intent we all we know he stole the time in order to save the universe or someone has found a way to steal his power.last we saw he was trying to help save the world with night owl and the rest now all of a sudden he is this evil entity.

Action Bump

>>89762394
Removing time did resurrect a bunch of people and restore things like golden age elements in the Trinity and their history.

>>89762394
>we know he stole the time in order to save the universe
Which required murdering Pandora why

>>89752085
Wow prime loves eating like shit doesn't he?

>>89752144
Holy shit.
I don't care about Superman and even less about Lois Lane, but this Clark Kent mystery got me hooked.
Well done, DC, well done.

>>89763426

Because fuck the Nu52, that's why.

Pandora and her new mythos ruined to great classic characters. Best to let her go.

>>89756420
And last issue he finally went fucking insane and decided to kill everyone in the planet by letting contagious clones spread their plague with the idea of then reviving everyone as clones and making them subservient to him to get the pills they need to survive.

>>89752361

Even better Rebirth started with Doomsday so it's all mostly in the same order. Though Hank showing up in Lois & Clark was the first real Reign sign.

>>89764874
Wtf is wrong with Marvel?

>>89765877
Well except Superman 52 dying after Reign instead of before

>>89765907
It's Slott, the guy can only shit on the fans and beloved characters. He's hoping pissing of Ben fans will make him relevant

>>89752059
Fucking bullshit right here

>>89751984
blacked

>It's not Prime Time

Why even live?

>>89752144
Is it possible to cuck yourself?

He can be Prime, that would be fucking amazing, but he can also be a mental projection that goes away when he's in his house

>>89766961
and where does the shit he picked up go? into his mind?

>>89755701
>Which makes me think Him Superbro and Superdad are all the same person and somehow split and will be recombined to make a whole Superman that fits in this earth.

This is the most likely theory to me

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>>89751975
I'm calling it now.

>>89753169
all my friends do that about our illegal debauchery. granted we arent running a racket

>>89753199
its the ORIGINAL like how the colonels down in kentucky is different from kfc

>>89752144
>PRIMED.COM
YES

>>89752267
A woman he has there is someone he met on some space adventure who is essentially there for her own good while superman tries to cure her of something.

>>89755897
>there's also another Superman in China that isn't Kon Kenan that hasn't been touched on at all or even sort of explained.
Read the latest Super-man issue.

>>89768295
>Read the latest Super-man issue.
Having to read Bleach to understand what is going on in Naruto, only for your Naruto story to end in a One Piece issue is terrible and needs to stop.

>>89768355
What are you talking about? He just said that the other Superman in China was touched up on in the latest issue. You don't have to read it to understand anything here.

It's like you needed to jump at the first opportunity to bitch about the shared universe

>>89752152
Is Dr Henkshaw a cover identity for Supergirl's dad Cyborg-Superman, or do we have two Cyborg-Supermen running around?

>>89768355
>There's another superman clone from china but that hasn't been touched on
>It has in the Super-man of china book.
>WELL THAT'S NOT FAIR

This is a shared universe, and the character has appeared in the book that he makes the absolute most sense to reappear in.

Don't be silly.

>>89768384
Shared universes are great.

Story spazzing out between various different books is not.

>>89768525
I misunderstoon. Me am smartest poster.

>>89768529
It's not spazzing out between various books.

That character's part in the superman books story was done. He's now involved in a new story in another book.

>>89766658
Isn't that the fag that also tried to ruin May-Day?

>>89768581
Good.

>>89763426
Back in Flashpoint Pandora merged the three universes to protect against some upcoming badguy, guess it was Manhattan and she failed.

>>89753103
It made me smile

>>89752035
>Action Comics
>They're doing detective work

>Meanwhile Detective Comics is an action book

>>89768493

We have two. We have the original, Hank Henshaw about to get his old name back. Then we have Kara's father who is the New 52 version who was just captured.

>>89752085
>>89752093
My guess is that he's Prime put in place by Manhattan to fill the void left by New-52 Supes. When he enters the door he's whisked away somewhere by Manhattan to perform maintenance on him or something. I don't think he knows he's not really Clark or that he's working for Manhattan.

I haven't paid attention to Superman, like..ever, until rebirth. May I ask what happened to new 52 Lois Lane?

>>89752361
Was there a Kon in the New-52?

>>89772137
She apparently died in the first Superwoman issue, but was revealed to be alive in the latest one.

>>89772185
yeah there was, he was an unstable clone according to Supergirl

>>89772137
She got some of New-52 Supermans powers like Lana did when he died but then she also "died" early on in Superwoman.

>>89772199
>>89772225
ooooh...is Mr.Oz doing more of his shenanigans?

>>89768355
I just read it, holy shit that guy is definitely 52 Superman, looks just like him and even has a similar costume.

Which means that the one that died was a clone, that explain why he turned to ash when he died.

Fucking hell that also explains the Red/Blue cover.

Red for Commie China, Blue for All American Supes and the suits match up perfect as one is mostly red and the other mostly blue.

>>89772257
We don't know how she's back. Presumably we'll know more after the Superman Reborn event next month.

>>89772367
Dang anon, my body is fucking ready

>>89770140
Supergirl has no connection to Henshaw, then?

>>89772883
The current DCU Supergirl barely has any connection to Superman.

>>89773134
>>89772883
It has more of a connection to the TV show than anything in the comics

>>89768355
Except that's a fucking terrible analogy. One Piece, Naruto and Bleach aren't part of one giant, interconnected world with an over-arching story/mystery.

It's more like you're reading that shit Boruto and then complaining that you have to read Naruto to understand some parts of stuff.

Thanks, OP.

>>89752605
Yes. But basically her newfound powers have been slowly killing her this whole time. Now she's in critical. That's about all you need to know