NEW 52 DUELING REVIEW: Action Comics #1

Action Comics is one of the longest running superhero comics. That’s why DC decided to relaunch the series with a new number one this month in the hopes that the allure of a first issue will attract new readers. Matthew and Stephen took some time today to run down to their local stores (or in Stephen’s case – his comiXology account) to pick up copies for this review.

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Review: First Wave #1

(With apologies to Bunim/Murray) This is the story of eleven characters…picked to live in a new universe… work together and have their adventures penned… to find out what happens… when characters stop living in their own universe… and start something completely different in… First Wave.


DC’s Blackest Night and Marvel’s Siege may be the big events everyone is waiting for, but for this comic fan, the one series I’ve been waiting months for has been First Wave and the return of pulp and golden age heroes to the pages of comics.  While I enjoyed the Batman/Doc Savage Special, which served as an introduction to this whole new world, there were some troubling spots.  Now, four months later, readers finally get a peek at this brave new world.  Does it have the same problems as before, or has DC truly created a new universe that works?

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