Justin Partridge > Recent Status Updates

It’s kinda amazing how much goodwill these first Pak issues get just by telling fun, contained stories. He opens with a Zero Year tie-in for Rao’s sake!

NOW we are COOKIN!

NOW we are getting to the good stuff. Including an extremely good Secret Origins issue I had never read before! With some cracking artwork too.

Boy, this one does NOT fuck about in the slightest huh?

It’s really neat how Child can switch so well between 1st person and 3rd person omniscient.

My library only had this edition. Still, if anything, it’s making me appreciate the economic adaptation work of McQuarrie (who rules and who made a pretty decent movie with the worst casting for Reacher possible!)

RED NAILSSSSSS

Boy, this thing is just INSTANTLY arresting huh?

Buscemaaaaaa. Yell it when you’re fucking!

It was only a matter of time until…SONJA!

Remember when Geoff Johns had Superman and Wonder Woman kiss and then made it everyone else’s problem?

Hey there’s Andy Diggle! Oh, there goes Andy Diggle…

Gil Kane and Conan the Reaver shit! Man these have been so fun.

Action Comics #15-16 (“you were Mxy’s FAVORITE trick. And The King’s. The One Who Tricked Back. You outsmarted Mxy every time.”)

ELRIC & KULAN-GATH!

Action Comics #13-14 (In a world without form or colors, the Superman had only memories to work with. Primary-colored, crayon-bright, proto-recollections of the very last hours of Krypton. Of Lara. Jor-El. And the brave white dog who fell through a white door to a white room without walls.)

Action Comics #0 & Action Comics (2012) Annual #1 (“Can I ask you somethin’, mister? What does the “S” stand for?”)

Action Comics #11-12 (“He…hurt my dear, sweet Mxyzptlk. He killed the King-Thing Brpxz…and now he’s here. He’s always been here. And oh, how he HATES you.”)