Action Comics #904

Ah... Here's a great example of one of the problems I have with the DC reboot... Action Comics... Action Comics has been published since 1938(!). It's put out over 900(!!) issues. Even when it's sucked, it's seemed important because no other comic series has lasted THAT long. Now it's being renumbered and will restart at #1... The same as 51 other series. I still feel that Action and Detective Comics shouldn't be renumbered because they are too important to DC's history, but that line of thinking puts me at odd with the geniuses who currently run DC, since we all know the most important characters in the history of the DCU are Barry Allen and Hal Jordan. The sterling numbers Green Lantern did at the box office should prove that fact...

Action Comics #904:

Summary: While Superman's various friends and teammates are dealing with the remaining two Doomsday's running around the Earth, Supes has been sucked into the Doomslayer's spaceship. The spaceship tells Supes(yes, the spaceship is talking to Supes) that he has to stop the Doomslayer and informs him how to return the spaceship back to it's home dimension before it crashes into the Earth's core(which was the Doomslayer's plan). Supes confronts the Doomslayer and after reprogramming the spaceship(by pushing a wire together...), has to prevent the Doomslayer from altering the ship's course for three minutes, at which time the ship(and everybody on board it) will be shunted to another dimension(or something... I'm not really sure...). Supes and Doomslayer battle, with the Doomslayer gaining the upper-hand, at least until the real Doomsday(which is currently possessed by the Eradicator) shows up to lend Supes a hand. Eradicator tells Supes that he'd stay and make sure Doomslayer didn't reprogram the ship, but Supes doesn't want to let the Eradicator sacrifice himself(because Eradicator is doing SO many important things at the moment...). To deal with that, Eradicator(with some help from the talking spaceship) tosses Supes out of the ship and the ship, as well as the Doomslayer and Eradicator/Doomsday, disappears in an explosion. Supes is kind of sad that the Eradicator was gone/dead/whatever, since Supes feels he should have been the guy to make the big sacrifice, but Lois manages to straighten him out over dinner with a flowery speech.

Thoughts: Eh. Once the spaceship began talking to Supes and telling him how to defeat the Doomslayer/save the world, my eyes began to roll and I stopped paying full attention to this story... It was just all too pat. Supes gets blown up or something by the Doomslayer last issue, but here we find out that he was actually pulled inside the spaceship's informational engines(which Supes helpfully tells us as soon as it happened! Does this sort of thing happen to Supes SO often that he's completely unaffected by it?), so he could learn the secret to beating the Doomslayer and sending the ship back to it's own dimension/blowing it up(I'm still kind of foggy on that...). I liked Lois's speech to Supes to end this issue(why the hell didn't she just tell him that before he went on his asinine trek across America?!), but the story just wrapped up TOO neatly for my liking. I guess this is another storyline that got shortchanged thanks to the DC reboot...

Score: 5 1/2 out of 10.Well that was easy...