I love comics. I really, truly do. Often they disappoint, playing things safe or trying to emulate the techniques and predilections more popular forms of media like TV and movies, but they have a capacity to instill wonder, to appeal to that part of me that believes every moment is significant, every day a miracle-in-waiting.
Action Comics 15 is one of those comics.
Speaking briefly, it's transcendent. It's everything I love about comics. It's everything I love about everything. And as I was going through Panel's of the Week, I came to realize -- there was something on every page of this book that made the cut. So I'm going to do a separate post on just this issue, because it deserves it.
In the future, expect a retrospective on this run. Expect it to be analytical and maybe a bit cold. Expect it not to do justice to how emotionally, imaginally, aspirationally beautiful this run has been on every level.
In the meantime, check out some of my favorite things after the cut...
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| This is everything I love about young Superman |
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| This is everything I love about superheroes |
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| This is everything I love about comic books |
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| This is everything I love about Superman. |
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| This is everything I love about tragedy, and friendship. |
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| This is everything I love about the way love feels |
I have read a few comic books. Some of them were funny. Some of them were tragic. Some of them were epic. But very few of them were so utterly INSANE that this issue was. It's Superman facing death at the end of the world. It's the tragic love story of Mxy and Nxly, and why Vyndktvx hate them so much. It's the prom night for Clark Kent and how it went horribly wrong.
ReplyDeleteAll of this in 20 pages defying space and time in and outside of the story. Incredible.