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[Bar-El]

Maybe we’ll get some multiverse adventures with Superman and Lois!

[Vroom]

@Jay_Kay

These issues are…I would best describe them as aggressively 00s.

Word yo, these issues were da bomb.

“That’s more like the '90s, homeslice.”

True, but the point is these issues were fun then and are still fun today.

In nearly twenty years from now, we’ll probably look back on today’s issues of Action and say “Man, they had to hold their phones? What a crock!”

@Jay_Kay

I think this was the first time I really read anything with this black-suited Supergirl though (outside of a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo in the first issues of Superman/Batman) and I am curious to read her story.

Superman/Batman was where I first learned of Mia. I’m still trying to pinpoint all of her appearances, which isn’t at all hard, its just that I always forget to finish doing that, because “Read all of Mia’s comics.” is nearly dead-last on my Reading Priorities list.

@Jay_Kay

Phil Jimenez’s Superwoman

A sorely, sorely underrated run from the Rebirth era. Its definitely deserving of more acclaim than it’s received, thus far.

@Jay_Kay

the two were actually a couple, so this actually works as a fun meet-cute, with some of the more pin-up-y stuff like all three girls cuddled together sleeping in the same bed makes a little sense in retrospect.

Fully agree.

[Jay_Kay]

The “aggressively 00s” thing also applied to things like the teenaged Traci 13 walking around in basically the outfit Poison Ivy wears in the Arkham games, and Natasha in her first scene wearing basically overalls and a pair of shoes while welding white-hot metal, just stuff you wouldn’t see nowadays and probably for the best.

Not to mention it depended on plots from the Chuck Austen run on Superman, which…the less said about that one, the better.

[Vroom]

@Jay_Kay

Natasha in her first scene wearing basically overalls and a pair of shoes while welding white-hot metal, just stuff you wouldn’t see nowadays and probably for the best.

I would hope that absolutely nobody would wear overalls and a pair of tennies while welding, because that would be:

A. Stupid
B. A fashion faux pas (like I’m one to talk )
C. Stupid

Its most definitely for the best that we don’t see that kind of thing from the welding community.

@Jay_Kay

Not to mention it depended on plots from the Chuck Austen run on Superman, which…the less said about that one, the better.

I have no hesitancy in saying that not only did I like Chuck Austen’s run on Action Comics (his Godfall follow-up was kinda meh, I’ll give you that), but that I also liked what I read of his run on Uncanny X-Men.

One fan’s trash is most definitely another fan’s…well, not treasure, but let’s just say its not trash, either.

In both cases, its largely the art that I liked more than anything, but the art isn’t what it is without writing to fuel it.

SN: Whatever happened to Mr. Austen? Is he still writing comics for other publishers, or did he get out of the biz?