- Title: Action Comics #1062
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- Writer: Jason Aaron
- Artist: John Timms
Metropolis has been Bizarro-fied. Everyone within the city has become a version of Bizarro, including Superman. Although he’s able to shake it off and return to normal, Superman is left with a city gone mad. We get a cameo from Batman and a couple other heroes doing what they can to help, but Action Comics #1062 is centered squarely around a Superman story where he tires himself out in small victories saving the citizens from themselves over and over again, but in terms of reversing what has been done he continues to fail to set things right.
With the spell seeping out of Metropolis and into the larger DCU we get the point of the issue in the impossible team-up of Superman (still fighting the Bizarro-ness within him) and DC’s most sane man: the Joker. The absurd pairing is also of note because of how much the citizens of Gotham feel like regular Joker victims. It’s a wacky concept to be sure, but I am curious where things go from here.
[DC, $4.99]