DC Comics and Action Comics #1052 Spoilers and Review follows.
A Macabre New Family Shall Rise To Kill The Superman Family For Dawn Of DC!
What To Expect.
ACTION COMICS #1052
Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON, DAN JURGENS, and LEAH WILLIAMS
Art by RAFA SANDOVAL, LEE WEEKS, and MARGUERITE SAUVAGE
Cover by STEVE BEACH
Variant cover by CLAYTON HENRY and MARCELO MAIOLO
Variant cover by RAFA SANDOVAL and MATT HERMS
Variant cover by LEE WEEKS
1:25 variant cover by JORGE FORNÉS
1:50 foil variant cover by STEVE BEACH
Black History Month variant cover by KHARY RANDOLPH
$4.99 US | 48 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 2/28/23METALLO ATTACKS!
The crown jewel of Superman’s new Metropolis is in ruins, and the increasingly violent Blue Earth movement is keeping the entire Super-Family on their toes. Meanwhile, Metallo’s powerful new body is evolving in unforeseen, horrific ways. As Metallo’s life and sanity continue to unravel, he sets out to capture the only person who can help him: John Henry Irons. It’s Steel versus Metallo as the new era of Action Comics continues!
In addition the main cover and solicitation above the title has a few variant covers below.
Action Comics #1052 Spoilers and Review.
The book opens where the previous one, and the first of the new Dawn of DC era, left off (full spoilers here).
Metallo has attacked and Conner Kent Superboy is hurt.
Steel joins the fight with his equally armored sister.
Ultimately, Superman uses his freeze breath on Metallo and hurls him into space.
Later, as the Superman Family congregates, Steel and Superman are asked who Metallo is.
They explain that he is or was John Corben.
He was part of a Steel Soldier program that Steel, real name John Henry Irons Jr., and Lex Luthor worked on, but had been rushed.
Corben wasn’t born a villain, but became one.
However, now he’s being manipulated by someone from the shadows.
That person is using his sister Tracey as some kind of AI to convince him that he needs to kill all of the Superman Family.
Metallo returns to Earth and confronts Blue Earth zenophobe racists who are anti-Superman, anti-his allies and anti-alien.
Metallo easily subdues them and transports them elsewhere.
He’s going to use them, against their will, to create a Metallo Family it would seem to to kill the Superman Family.
The first back-up tale involves Jon Kent at a time where he and his parents were younger and hidden from public view.
A spaceship lands close to where they are staying and its occupant, Princess Glyanna, is being hunted by her father’s mech Killamek.
Jon calls for his dad who hears him and is coming.
At the same time, an enfeebled Doombreaker comes to the doorstep for Lois Lane’s help?!
The second and last back-up involves Power Girl, her friend Omen, and a therapy session for Supergirl.
The Pulse.
An ecclectic issue whose main story had me the most enamoured story-wise. All three stories were strong on art, but the main story was far superior on plot and characterization. Curious as to what’s next, but this new era for the Superman Family is starting off well. 7 out of 10.
