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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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The New is Old - Superman Action Comics vol 4: Hybrid

 

Cover of Action Comics vol 4

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With issues #19-24, collected here, authors Andy Diggle, Scott Lobdell and Tony S. Daniel bring us a New Superman who looks a lot like the Old Superman. Gone, without explanation, is the T-shirt-and-jeans, workboot-wearing Superman of limited powers, from the Grant Morrison reboot. The Superman in these pages can once again fly, not just run and jump; he can breathe in space; Clark Kent is a crack investigative reporter. In other words, this Superman is rebooted back to his pre-Morrison reinvention.

The visuals have turned a corner too. The art is bolder, sexier even - the women more shapely, their outfits more skimpy. Coupled with some innovative layouts, the look and feel is vastly different once we hit issue #19.

Andy Diggle and Tony S. Daniel give us 'Hybrid,' the titular tale of the collection. Lex Luthor infects the Man of Steel with a virus that rewrites his DNA. Soon his hand is deformed by the infection, until it basically detaches itself, then grows and mutates some more. The same powers and weaknesses as Superman makes for a ... still somewhat one-sided battle. Long live experience and friends.

Scott Lobdell and Tyler Kirkham craft the other major story in this collection, with the Atomic Knights. This intergalactic peace corps comes to our solar system to stop the Lexus from devouring it. Their disdain for Superman changes to admiration and even hero-worship as he more than holds his own in the climactic battle.


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Determined to turn the people of Metropolis against the Man of Steel and finally vanquish him from the Earth, Lex Luthor unleashes a virus on Metropolis capable of rewriting the DNA of those infected, including Superman.

While Superman's immune system eventually fights off the infection, not before a hybrid Superman is created through the virus' ability to rewrite DNA.  This new hybrid Superman is the only being capable of defeating the true Superman and Lex will stop at nothing to see it accomplish its mission.

Collects: Action Comics #19-24, stories from Young Romance: The New 52 #1 and Superman Annual #2

Authors: Andy Diggle, Scott Lobdell, Tony S. Daniel
Artists: Tony S. Daniel, Tyler Kirkham
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Dec 30 2014
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-1401250775
Pages: 200 pages


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