Action Comics #977 Storytime

>>91478018
>Bob Harras
>Editing made easy

I'm not posting a reaction image because this is a storytime, but if I could, I would post one of anger.

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>>91478052
Feel free.

What's gonna happen, am I gonna not have enough space to post the rest of the issue?

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Of course, proper etiquette is to withhold reaction images on longer storytimes where the image count is precious. Longer term ones which inherently take up multiple threads it matters less so.

>>91478061
>>91478069
I thought Corbon was a nice guy and dead? Actually I have no idea what was up with that guy.

>>91478084
>tell me everything

...Starting with the crystals

>>91478090
Butterfly effect. Supes changed reality.

>>91478134
>his first piece of hair is the curl

hehe

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>>91478172
Cool Smallville Lex made the continuity.
Also seems the merger was a blending rather than just both add to each other.

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UUUU

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New Super-Man: >>91478201

>>91478093
>>91478101

>Mixing Pre/Post-Crisis and Nu52 aesthetics of Krypton

I... I like this.

>>91478093
if they're so smart they wouldn't of died

>>91478172
>Secret Origin explicitly confirmed as canon

Neato!

I like how they showed the Krypton side of things specifically, as Secret Origin pretty much omitted that part.

>>91478192
what a crock of shit. It revealed nothing. As usual with the shitty reborn event. It was just mxy being coy and then he just warps away after being punched two times.

No big tricks or some ingenious way to defeat him. You just punch him.

>>91478172
>>91478194
This just keeps getting better and better
I really hope they let Lex know the Clark is Superman like for reals, I was reading back through my old stuff and the interactions he had with Supes when Manchester Black revealed his identity to Lex back during his Presidency was golden and with this new Good Guy Super Lex i can only imagine the places you could go if you also threw in the Lex Clark relationship from Birthright which judging from the art in this page>>91478172 is what they are going for

So... are Pa and Ma still dead?

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>do a rundown of Superman's current origin/status quo
>the Kents are not confirmed dead or alive

JUST TELL ME GODDAMMIT

>>91478312
>>91478324

The final page of the arc will have Superman sitting at the breakfast table with Ma and Pa saying they're proud of him.

>>91478172
>>91478183
It seems like they chickened out on saying whether the Kents are alive or dead.

>>91478312
>>91478324
>>91478354
>>91478383
Either that or Pa Kent is dead but Ma Kent is alive to match 1978 film, Superman Returns, Synder DCEU, Superman Earth One, Johns' Braniac arc, All Star Superman

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>>91478030

>>91478407
I'd be okay with that.

>>91478407
So far everything feels very much like we're going back to the history Johns established pre-Flashpoint. So this seems like the most likely option.

>>91477993

>Action Comics 977

We're less than a year away from Action Comics #1000 /co/

What a time to be alive

Just an exposition dump issue.

So, what have he got?

- Regular Krypton
- Secret Origin childhood (good. LoSH can be a thing)
- Back at the Daily Planet (also good. I want Jimmy Olsen back into Superman's stories)
- Perry White is familiar with Jon

>>91478157

>Why did I do this to myself?

Nigga you watch this shit once a month!

>>91478531
Knew Lex as a teen

>>91477993
Why is Kubert drawing the fucking costume off model? The belt didn't look like that in Reborn.

>>91478101
since when is Lara blond?

>>91478010
This is GORGEOUS.

>>91478531
They seem to be keeping things simple, which I very much appreciate.

Like >>91478468 said, continuity seem to be rolled back to pre-Flashpoint Superman, with Jon and the best bits of New 52 Superman added in.

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>>91478030

>>91477993
wrong belt

>>91478052
Why? Harras was a clown. That's such a hilarious jab at him.

>>91478018
>he's back at The Daily Planet

>>91478043
>Superman Rebirth

They fucking got it wrong. Maybe the editor on this book has been reading Bob Harras' book from here: >>91478018

>>91478051
The only thing that could be done to improve this without actually bringing the trunks back would be to make the belt even thicker.

>>91478183
hey is that Lucy's husband?

If so does she still have the baby?

>>91478061
Well this is a creepy as fuck page.

>>91478172
And the Legion is still erased...

>>91478118
Who the fuck is this asshole and why did he get away with blowing up that city?

>>91478069
Any ideas on who this matrix guy is?
inb4 highlighted letters spell something

Also, am I the only one getting tired of the congo line of bad guys plotting something from behind the scenes

>>91478799
IIRC Blanque showed up in the Lois & Clark maxiseries, as well as early on in Jurgens' Action run.

>>91478786
Morrison's Action had him as a legionnaire

>>91478825
We've switched Legion since. Twice, maybe.

>>91478101
>>91478110
>>91478134
>>91478139
>he had a spit curl even as a baby

>>91478786
We know for a fact the Legion is coming back, and this version of Superman's childhood is striking similar to the Secret Origins arc from pre-Flashpoint, which did have a LoSH cameo.

>>91478164
Martha is WAAAAAAY too hot.

>>91478183
>no Cat Grant

>>91478309
Birthright should never be canon ever.

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>>91478183
T-shirt Supes is gone?

>>91478183
Who's the black chick?

>>91478354
I should certainly hope they are.

If your foster son is literally Superman and you're not proud of him, then your standards are way too high.

>>91478309
>you could go if you also threw in the Lex Clark relationship from Birthright which judging from the art in this page>>91478172 is what they are going for

It looks more like Secret Origin. Pete Ross having a broken arm happened there.

>>91479048
Lois Lane

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>>91478157
Tried to do this. Hope it's good.

>>91478030
>they're moving to the city
Bye farmer clark

After many good issue, this is a little boring. Nearly a filler.

Seriously? Secret Origins is such a shitty origin story.

>>91478531
>- Regular Krypton
interesting thing is that Krypton now seems to be a mix of all the previous mainline versions aesthetically

>>91478192
So who is this guy in the crystal and what is he trying to say???

What are the chances of All Star ever being folded into mainline continuity with a Batgirl style retcon where he got out of the sun much earlier?

The red matrix guy is obviously Henshaw

>>91478103
No one appreciates this gem of a comment but I do anon I do.

>>91478172
>No, jump good!

>>91479852
^_^

>>91478280
What new 52 aesthetics?

>>91478010
Clark looks so bored here

>>91478093
I love how they're using multiple interpretations of Kryptonian fashion. It looks so much better than a uniform style

>>91478093
>its a whole planet kal-el of course we had different kinds of clothes.

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>>91478172
>>91478101
>>91478622
Its Superman Secret Origin from 2010 being made 1:1 explicitly canon again. Shot for shot.

>>91478719
>>91479048

Jackee Winters.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/jackee-winters/4005-108951/

Perry white, lois lane, Jimmy, clark, Ron Troupe, Steve Lombard, Jackee winters.

>>91478896
Mind telling why?
It's pretty much my favorite interpretation of the Superman origin

>>91478061
Why does he have two right arms in this panel?

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I'm cool with this. Secret Origin is pretty much exactly 'muh' Superman,

>>91479450
They're still on the farm in the main Superman book. Maybe they just commute?

The Kents are were most probably alive during most of Clark's adulthood since they don't mention them dying before Superman coming to Metropolis.

Now, in the present day? We still have no idea. Maybe Brainiac is still canon and Pa is dead and Ma alive. Or Ma died off screen.

I'm not really happy about bringing Secret Origin back. That was probably the weakest of all Superman origins. I would've been happy if they just left it somewhat ambiguous. We don't need to know the exact canon of how Supes grew up, the important points are all the same.

Except for Smallivle Lex. Fuck Smallvile Lex.

>>91480948
Although I'm very happy they threw Johns' Metallo the fuck out. Good riddance.

>>91478865
Yea it was really off, her shirt should have been a large old woman full body dress instead that didnt show off cleavage tho pa looks perfect.

>>91478018
I don't like this. Lois should've stayed with the Planet. Clark should've stayed at the farm. It really suited the two of them.

>>91478814
Ruaotu

lecottisamusptr

Here you go anon

>>91478148
So I guess New Krypton is no longer canon.

>literally no information other than what could have been assumed from the merge spread

decompression was a mistake

>>91480948
Secret Origin was less of an origin to me and more of a totality/streamlining of everything Johns had already retconned. Or at least usually origins happen at the beginning of runs not at the end.

>>91480168
Minus the trunks and Superboy, right?

>>91480784
That arc actually has them moving to the city.

>>91481661
Brainiac could still be stealing Argo City somewhere off panel.

>>91478093
Oh hey L-Ron what's up?

>>91478118
>>91478123
I'm interested to see what becomes of Blanque. He's a right bastard and this artist of death angle is interesting for Superman to fight. I wonder if he ends up getting killed.

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Sooooooo
It's Pic Related: The Issue?

>>91481788
They'll probably keep Morrison's version where he had adventures with the LoSH but wasn't officially Superboy.

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>>91478069
>What's gonna happen, am I gonna not have enough space to post the rest of the issue?

People bitch because the threads reach bump limit faster but I find that stupid since most storytimes threads don't reach 400 posts anyway and its not like we can't, let's say, create a new thread or anything... oh wait, we can! its literally free! Its just bitching for the sake of bitching!

>>91482491
It interrupts the story which is annoying if you expand all. Save the reactions for when it's done.

>>91478799
Blanque is a psychopathic telepath/telekinetic that Clark imprisoned while he was laying low after arriving at New 52 Earth. He got out of his cell a few issues ago.

>>91478123
>blanque's throne is actually just in the back of a pickup truck

kek

>>91478164
Holy fuck that ass

So it was an origin re-telling issue?

Eh. Whatever. I guess they had to considering the storyline.

>>91481586
>Rao
>Lois Must

>>91480056
Bored? I think he looks somber, which makes sense given what he's looking at.

>>91481500
>Clark should've stayed at the farm.

. Read some Superman from before the year 2000, your casual is showing.

>>91478093
>Afro-Kryptonians

Nah. Also if they really have to be progressive where are the Asian Kryptonians?

>>91483207
>not knowing about Vathlo

normies should not be in storytimes

>>91478531
Familiar nothing, Perry is Jon's godfather. Which in a way is slightly disappointing - I'd kinda pegged Jimmy for that - but it does indicate that Jon is known to friends of the family, and that they moved to Hamilton for... some reason or another. Maybe in the new history they thought it'd be easier to raise Jon in the countryside?

>>91478093
>black Kryptonians
WE

>>91483286
If it helps makes things better/worse, both Truth and the death arc are still canon in some form according to today's NSM issue. Directly mentioned events from them.

>>91483333
Yeah. Seems like Clark had some of his powers 'siphoned' (rather than another Superman being killed) now; wonder if they'll specify that any further.

>>91478282
If we were at least a pinch of intelligent we would not have to the world to a step of a disaster goblal and an inevitable war for the last resources that stay

>>91478814
>can control machinery
>hates superman
Its henshaw

>>91483388
>(rather than another Superman being killed)

I feel like you're still thinking from the context of Superdad when you shouldn't. He's also just Superbro with a family and different origin now.

>>91483585
That's part of my point. Since he's also Superbro he couldn't have died then, which is part of how history has changed with regards to the Truth and Death of Superman arcs, even while they are still somehow canon.

>>91478719
Shes a lesbian now so no

Do the yellow letters mean anything?


>>91478061
datrcaud alliou or e
>>91478069
Ruaotu

lecottisamusptr
>>91478118
us suscip por ????(chest) magna dict orci pat


etc

>>91478164
You just know he grew up with some kind of oedipus complex.

>>91483046
It gives me the impression that he's rolling his eyes. Otherwise, yeah, it's a pretty good cover

>>91478123
Do you guys think there is some sort of hidden message on the letters on his face?

So how old Lois and Clark were when Jon was born with current continuity?

Was this continuity change addressed in Superwoman?

>>91477993
Looks like the main story is Secret Origin with parts of New 52 and Birthright thrown in.

Works for me.

>>91484288
Superwoman's next week.

>>91484260
unless there's a trick probably early 20s, Superbro himself was like 30+ by the time he died at least

>Supergirl is also supposed to be relevant to explaining the new post-Reborn continuity.
>Only DC book from this week still not scanned.

>>91482522
>It interrupts the story which is annoying

who gives a shit?

>>91485089
This board does, newfriend. Follow our rules.

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>mfw this superfamily supershipper on Twitter is raging about this

get fucked lol

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>>91485123
post caps

>>91484415
>Kara-Kal team up
I've been waiting for this for so fucking long.

>>91485174
https://twitter.com/BSDJBS?lang=en

I don't feel like cobbling together timeline caps

>>91485236
I liked Superbro too but damn lady

>N52 has its own nostalgia fags now
What has DC brought forth into this world

>>91478148
>No Beppo
This is bullshit

What the fuck is happening in the DCU? Superbro was a Superman from another Earth,but now he is a piece of the old Superman but his history is canon but also Superdad's history,Lara was brunnet but now she is blond,Superbro parents are dead but now they are alive because his Superdad persona had his adopted parents are live,but his villians wasn't real but now they are...What the fuck did they do with the DCU?
Now there is two versions of the same beings that was suposed to be just one in the multiverse,like Darkseid and Anti Monitor?

>>91478103
I thought the exact same thing when I read that

>>91485360
lazy writing and muh nostalgia.

>>91478110
Wait, I thought that Kryptonians couldn't leave Krypton without being killed remotely by the Eradicator.

>>91485360
>Superbro was a Superman from another Earth

Literally no. Superman was split at some point into Superman Red (Superbro) and Superman Blue (Superdad) but then he rejoined and his history mixed to accommodate it.

There was ALWAYS more than one version of Darkseid due to the events of Final Crisis fragmenting him across the multiverse.

>>91485360
Dr. Manhattan is now being retroactively blamed for the Nu52 Universe-wide reset that happened after Flashpoint. But now Manhattan's changes are being undone a little at a time, bringing characters and events from before the reset back into canon. This is what DC Rebirth has been about. Superdad merging with Superbro is now the biggest and most obvious example of these changes. There's going to be weird continuity issues for as long as Rebirth continues, at least. You can take it as part of the story, since the DCU is literally in flux right now.

>>91483931
these words are recurring;

Consectetur, Curabitur, Piscingel, Rutrum, Nulla, Convallis, Tortor,

"Curabitur non nulla" appears to be a phrase

>>91485505
I think that stopped being canon after Infinite Crisis

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>>91478172
>teen Lana

>>91483931
Also, they appear to be several phrases in Latin. It would take a while to decipher the meanings, but maybe a /lit/ bro could help

>>91485623
Aw. I kinda liked that. Oh well.

>>91483931
Here's part of what I also found that might help explain all the Latin text

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/114222/description-of-the-lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-text-that-appears-in-word-help

>>91484415
Why don't you actually buy them you loser

>>91478282
>of
Goodbye english...

>>91478410
Bruce looking like Archer and Clark looking like Cyril.

Touch unsettling.

>>91479028
Yes

>>91479028
>>91485937
Truth is still canon, you never know

>>91479621
Or Eradicator its programming being a bit fucked up by the merge.

uh, so what happened to batman being kidnapped by the lovecraftian cow? or jon being poisoned?

>>91486153
that's Superman. This book is action comics.

>>91479450
>>91480784
They made a point of showing Lois' troubled face when she looked at the mail. I feel like that may be part of the plot going forward, like Clark doesn't want to abandon the farm.

>>91486214
right, sorry, i still don't get biweekly comics. how do they line up timeline-wise, like batman is taken captive by the farmer, but he is also fighting the not-yugoslavian revolution, how does it work?

>>91486281
Even if they weren't biweekly, you can't assume different titles take place at the exact same time.

>>91485089
>>91485110
You don't interrupt a storytime in progress. Who doesn't know this?

>>91478101
>last panel
META
E
T
A

>>91486281
Usually it works like: one book is telling one story, and the other book is telling another story, and after their both over you try to figure out which order they happened in. If you still care.

>>91486305
sure, but i usually read limited stuff or collections, where it's a lot more coherent, and different storylines are presented undivided, before or after another. as i said, it's about me being retarded mostly.

>>91486326
yeah, figured as much, thanks.

>>91478192
A White Martian?

>>91486322
subtlety is almost a lost art

>>91486611
It's not subtle at all.

I miss Superbro,he felt like a new way to explore the character with different decisions.
Why could the kept both of them,Superdad on Earth to the old fans and Superbro on the universe for the new fans.

>>91486673
that's what he meant, he was mourning the death of subtlety.

>>91484415
Can some scan and post Supergirl please?

>>91477993
What happened with Lex Luthor now?
Did he fuse with the old evil one?
Is Clark cool with the new Lex?

>>91486736
They are the same person

>>91486736
>I miss Superbro,he felt like a new way to explore the character with different decisions.
What the fuck are you talking about retard? He was not different at all, the SJ angle got dropped immediately after Morrison.

Kill yourself.

>>91487441
nu52 Lex is still the only Lex as far as we know. He's dicking around in Kenan's book this week.

Some people have been pushing the theory that Mr. Oz is pre-Flashpoint Lex.

>>91483671
awe wtf I liked their marriage and Superman being an uncle

>>91480168
oh, well I still don't like her being blond, makes her look like Supergirl

>>91487786
Doesn't make any sense since the New 52 universe is just the Pre New 52 universe with 10 years stolen so Pre New 52 Lex is New 52 Lex

>>91479493
Thomasi's book is the main Superman book. Jurgens is nothing but filler.

>>91479610
Next to nothing. There's no point.

>>91478101
I feel stupid for not making a link between Krypton's situation and climate change nowadays until now.

>>91478010
Some Moebius vibe here.

>>91483315
jesus christ take it back to /pol/ you faggot

>>91484260
seems pretty early to get married/ pop a kid out huh? are lois and clark both in their mid 30s now then?

>>91485236
>https://twitter.com/BSDJBS?lang=en
jesus christ what a butt blasted faggot. sorry your bruce and clark homo couple will never ever be canon you fucking tumblrscum

>>91486311
People who don't read comics.

>>91478030
>Perry is Jon's godfather.

I like it.

Apparently Supes spent some time with the League as a kid as revealed in Supergirl so could someone storytime that?

>>91490401
Did you mean Legion here?

But I don't think it's ripped yet. There's always some latefag in the Win O who doesn't post a DC book until like the next day.

>>91490401
Thornn doesn't rip his books for another couple of hours.

>>91487441
Lex and Supes were told of a future where Lex goes evil and becomes the new Darkseid-like monster. Lex refused to believe he'd ever go that far.

With being merged back with New Earth Lex per Reborn, he'll probably look at his position of trust he's got now with the heroes and fulfill the prophecy.

>>91478018
>siegel & shuster
cute

>>91485089
I do.

>>91490719
New 52 Lex didn't merge with anyone he was always New Earth Lex it was Superman who as split in two not Lex.

>>91490514
Yeah legion my bad.

>>91491938
And New 52 Lex was always a prick. He was going to Pinochet Ted Kord's Dad, and his first command for Bizarro was to kill the security guy next to him.

So this issue seems to confirm that history has been rewritten. Thus Clark never split in this timeline, and still has his old relationships since he was never a stranger in this world.

They sure went a weird way of doing this with the two merging, would have been better just to have retconned from the get go.

>>91478018
Does he remember when he was two people?

>>91492706
no, read the issue

>>91492706
It seems like his memory of that is fading with time.

>>91492778
He still seems to remember in supergirl so who knows

>>91477993

>>91488292
>Thomasi's book is the main Superman book. Jurgens is nothing but filler.

IMO the opposite is true. Tomasi's is arguably the better book but he does mostly character-driven stuff. Jurgens is where all the status quo shit is explained.

>>91492925
Why has no one posted Supergirl yet?

>>91494767
Hasn't been scanned yet.

>>91495637
Why do they hate us?

>>91478010
Nice.

>>91495665
becasuse they are anuses

>>91494767
not even ripped yet for some reason

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> making young smallville lex canon again

>>91478865
WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME!?

>>91498298
can someone please storytime supergirl

The missing piece is Conner

>>91501192
if you are gonna post all day about it, you probably care enough to buy it. It's only 3$ online

>>91501269
>>91501234
Same guy that just told you to fuck off here. I decided to be nice and storytime it >>>>>91501485

Thanks Norrin

>>91486229
Do not want. I like them living in the country.

>>91478101
Planetary core change is fake science proposed only by paid shills of the media elite.

>>91478018
What the fuck kind of keyboard are you using Clark?

>>91507796
shitty MAC ones

>>91479587

It was after OYL. Most of the styles were given to different Guilds.

>>91478101

Fucking pro science tree hugging snowflakes!

>>91502015
Thank you

>>91483315
WUZ