Another one is that he’s putting fresh eyes on DC’s oldest, biggest character and then immediately shifting the focus to everything around him. His Superman comics have taken two tracks since the end of Man of Steel,his big entree into the DCU. They seem to follow the two different threads of Superman’s identity: Action Comics, which is the Clark book, that focuses on Metropolis and the Planet and the Earth-bound life that he leads; and Superman, where we follow his superhero adventures.

The focus of each book has followed a similar pattern In Action, he’s taking a ground level view on why Superman is who he is – giving us peeks at why the people of Metropolis love him the way that they do (or in the case of the villains, how they get around him). Superman,however, is the introspective book, the one that shows us why Clark does what he does and how he perceives his world.

It is also where a lot of the over the top superhero action is – the last arc had Earth zapped into the Phantom Zone and Superman teaming up with General Zod to slow-mo punch the bejeezus out of Rogol Zaar. Not gonna lie, that was pretty satisfying. It looks like we’re getting a little bit of a pivot here, though.

That was an uncomfortable segue-plus-page-preview. Let’s try that again. It looks like we’re getting a bit of a pivot here.

There we go. That was MUCH less uncomfortable.