{"id":31,"date":"2007-02-26T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=31"},"modified":"2012-03-30T07:37:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:37:35","slug":"superman-back-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/26\/superman-back-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: Back in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/supermanback.jpg\" title=\"Superman: Back in Action\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/supermanback.jpg\" alt=\"Superman: Back in Action\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>various<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DC Comics ISBN 1-84576-432-3<\/p>\n<p>As part of their <em>One year Later<\/em> strand, and following on from the continuity altering events of <strong>Infinite Crisis<\/strong>, DC comics brings us a Superman who has been missing from Earth for a whole year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how strangely reminiscent of that film it all seems \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and who must now prove himself all over again to a doubting populace, government, and distressingly his own friends. Luckily a huge alien eBay style merchant monster has invaded Earth and is parcelling up all and sundry for auction \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including all the superheroes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the big blue guy gets to save the world in a live simulcast feed.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza write and Pete Woods draws an effective if uninspired little fable that should pass some time nicely, but the real gold is the three filler adventures from <strong>DC Comics Presents<\/strong>, a 1980&#8217;s title that teamed the Man of Steel with various heroes of the DC Universe. Here you can enjoy the <em>Metal Men<\/em>, <em>Firestorm<\/em> and <em>Deadman<\/em> in short, punchy romps written by Len Wein and Gerry Conway, and beautifully illustrated by the incredible Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of gold in DC&#8217;s back catalogue along with the dross, and if a series or theme collection seems a losing prospect, I fully welcome them mining out the nuggets and putting them anywhere they might fit. Good stories should be read not stashed away.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By various DC Comics ISBN 1-84576-432-3 As part of their One year Later strand, and following on from the continuity altering events of Infinite Crisis, DC comics brings us a Superman who has been missing from Earth for a whole year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how strangely reminiscent of that film it all seems \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and who must &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/26\/superman-back-in-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superman: Back in Action&#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-31","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-v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}