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Superman’s Got The Vagabond Blues

By | April 26th, 2010
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Recently, there was much speculation as to why Marc Guggenheim left Action Comics before his run even began, to be replaced by Multiversity favorite Paul Cornell rather quickly. Disagreement about the direction of the title seemed to be the general thesis of most theories, and if Rich Johnston is correct (isn’t he always?) it’s because Action would be Superman-less due to J. Michael Straczynski wanting to take Supes on a very lengthy and reflective walk across America.

To quote Johnston:

Apparently, the Man Of Steel is going to drop his Superman identity in an attempt to be a better man and to better relate to humanity. The story will follow his journey as he walk from one side of the USA to other other, trying not use his powers.

Say what?

As Johnston also pointed out, this is very reminiscent to JMS’ previous work Midnight Nation where a forgotten cop walked across America to get his soul back, except this stars Superman and will likely be very, very not superhero-y and more like his recent run on DC’s Brave and the Bold. Or at least thematically and in the touchy, feely, learning lessons sort of way.

Evidently what transpires in War of the Supermen is going to mess good ol’ Kal-El up pretty bad, mostly mentally. Either way, it should be interesting, and at the very least it gets us the gorgeous cover from John Cassaday above (not to mention a Paul Cornell scripted Lex Luthor book in Action – sign me up for that!).


David Harper

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