Zero two red oni x hiro art6/13/2023 The fight with Superman ends with him extending his hand to Metallo in a beautiful show of heroism, telling him that his punishment will come, but first, they must save his sister. He’s woven together multiple character threads, such as Otho’s, to help examine the line in which heroism becomes villainy. Johnson has been doing his best thematic work with this arc so far. This Metallo story has framed itself within a debate regarding whether morality matters when trying to save a life, something Clark has to work through every second of the day. The fight between Clark and Metallo is nothing short of epic, Kennedy using it to highlight Superman’s propensity to see the good in all. It’s an emotional setup for growth that will go way down the line, but how Johnson presents these early seeds is engaging, as he frames it all through a well-done dialogue between Jon and Clark. Jon’s struggle with his place as the son of Superman comes to a head in this chapter, and Jon blames himself for the Super twin’s abduction. His voice for the two isn’t Superman and Superboy but father and son. Johnson clearly understands healthy, but still imperfect familial relationships. His narrative work with Jon is some of the best we’ve had since the character was a twelve-year-old boy. He manages to weave so much into this issue without missing a beat or rushing anything remotely important. Kennedy’s writing remains unfathomably good. The art is sleek, emotionally captivating, and adds much weight to the action sequences. Whether or not this was an editorial kerfuffle or something else, the one thing that can be told is that the art team does not miss a beat with Raynor coming on board. According to the credits page, Max Raynor has taken over for Rafa Sandoval on this issue, yet Sandoval’s name remains ever present on the main cover, and Raynor’s does not. Two massive chunks of this story hold the key to what makes its story so satisfying, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the apparent change in artists. While Jon hags back to handle the raging enemy alongside the rest of the Super Family, Clark races against the clock to rescue the Super twins from Metallo’s grasp before it’s too late. Jon, Osul, and Clark quickly intervene, only for the twins to wind up captured by Metallo’s soldiers. ![]() Our story opens with Otho as she rains hell down upon the Blue Earth rally. At that heart’s center is a climactic fight between Metallo and Superman, a battle between a god who chose to be a man and a man who decided to be a monster. This issue explicitly carries the qualities of a perfect superhero story, a tale of significant action and more significant stakes that still manage to keep a bleeding heart of thematic richness. Phillip Kennedy Johnson took on the series as its primary writer way back when Action Comics has grown to be a superhero title that would irrevocably define what a superhero story can be in the modern day.
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