20220226 - Review: Superman and the Authority

Ultra-Humanite\ a team together by hope,\ the good in people.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Superman and the Authority

Superman and the Authority was a fun, but short-lived, four-issue limited series by Grant Morrison and Mikael Jannín, which was supposed to lead through the 5G DC comics event, according to Morrison's Substack, but instead fed into Future State and Action Comics.

Each issue followed mini stories about the members of Superman's Authority, starting with an aging Super-dad dealing with stresses like Phantom Zone incursions and the guilt of JFK’s assassination, and who has started losing his powers and thus has begun assembling a team to replace them, which is a topic symbolized and explored through enemies like Ultra-Humanite in Solomon Grundy’s body.

"You miss a lot when you only look for the good in people."

Filled with concepts that fans will love, like a Supes versus Brainiac chess shadowboxing of sorts with opposing Authority teams, workouts powering electric treadmill generators, Lois Lane supporting Superman, a sentient datacosmos with wifi consciousness that was "scared" of the people they used as bridges to make trolls and edgelords out of the structural order of matter itself, and a fragment of the source-wall from the bleed; may be almost too self referential with callbacks and allusions to Kandor, Clark and Lois's son, and Kryptonite secrets that are probably all (or were) set ups for other stories.

"We all make mistakes. Every moment's a fresh opportunity to do something you can be proud of! We're still here for you, June!"

This series uses meta humour about forming teams, as well as its entire four issue run, to compose the Authority with Manchester Black, Nat Steel, the Enchantress, Apollo, Midnighter, Lightray and a new OMAC. This was all setup for a story in Action Comics, where this story's merit lies in villains being turned into heroes dealing with their mental issues, in the heroes and their relationships and in trying to make unfortunate situations better.

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