And so the new paradigm is established. SPOILERS ahead - you've been warned.
Jon and Lois lost somewhere in space with Jor-El. (Who, BTW, is alive somehow? Damn, you go away from a universe for a few years, and suddenly Superman is a family drama? I got some catching up to do!). Kara is off into space to find answers about Rogol Zaar, who she's just handily banished to the Phantom Zone. She's done with him, but Clark wants to know more.
Oh, and a young man tells new fire chief Melody Moore that Superman is the one starting the fires all over Metropolis.
Mr. Bendis is going to tell us all of these stories, I'm sure, through the pages of Superman and Action Comics. Wisely, he's going to give us the big, cosmic, over-the-top-ridiculous superhero action in Superman, and the more grounded, Clark as reporter/superhero angle in Action. I'm delighted to find out that he's on both for the foreseeable future. I may even start picking up Kara's outer space adventures. We'll see.
It's definitely a different DC universe than the one I last read. Though I've been keeping up on the Young Animal titles, they exist, as they must, in a world all their own, only ever letting the less-unhinged heroes in occasionally. The last time I read proper DCU was probably the end of Jeff Lemire's excellent Animal Man.
We'll bounce back and forth between the titles for now, acknowledging of course that they must somehow not be taking place at the same time. I'm getting the suspicion that Action's events precede Superman's, but I'm not 100% certain yet. Let's just enjoy the stories for now.
More to come...
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