{"id":167,"date":"2007-04-15T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T15:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=167"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:11:27","slug":"superman-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/15\/superman-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/ssac.jpg\" title=\"Superman: Sacrifice\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/ssac.jpg\" alt=\"Superman: Sacrifice\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By various<\/p>\n<p>(DC Comics)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84576-243-6<\/p>\n<p>Rather humdrum conclusion to one of the major plot-lines of the <strong>Infinite Crisis<\/strong> event as Superman, mind-controlled by Maxwell Lord, architect of the plan to remove all super-beings from humanity, is compelled to attack his fellow heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Reprinting <strong>Superman<\/strong> issues # 218-220, <strong>Adventures of Superman<\/strong> #442-443, <strong>Action Comics<\/strong> #829 and <strong>Wonder Woman<\/strong> #219-220, and featuring the efforts of nearly three dozen creators, this is still little more than a glossy but extended punch-up, culminating in what has been touted as an irreconcilable break-up between the DC Universe&#8217;s Big Three. As the volume ends \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I&#8217;m not being a spoiler by revealing this \u00e2\u20ac\u201c those best of friends Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are alienated and apart \u00e2\u20ac\u201c seemingly forever. Or at least until the next times sales dictate a team-up\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By various (DC Comics)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84576-243-6 Rather humdrum conclusion to one of the major plot-lines of the Infinite Crisis event as Superman, mind-controlled by Maxwell Lord, architect of the plan to remove all super-beings from humanity, is compelled to attack his fellow heroes. Reprinting Superman issues # 218-220, Adventures of Superman #442-443, Action Comics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/15\/superman-sacrifice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superman: Sacrifice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-superhero","category-superman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}