Action Comics 1000, Story 2: "Never-Ending Battle"

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Never-Ending Battle

Story and Words - Peter J. Tomasi, Art - Patrick Gleason, Colors - Alejandro Sanchez, Letters - Tom Napolitano

Initial Reactions:

This is such a stunning story by the creative team responsible for the amazing Superman title since Rebirth began.  Each of the pages in this story are awesome splash pages, reflecting the differences in style throughout Superman's history.  It is not a particularly complicated story, but it is a near perfect birthday celebration of the first comics superhero.  The focus, as throughout Tomasi and Gleason's run, remains the Kent family.  The result is simply beautiful!

The Story:

The premise of this story is that Vandal Savage has found a way to manipulate hypertime in order to trap Superman in various past time streams.  The result is Superman fighting his way in gorgeous splash pages through his comic book history, starting in the late 30's.  He enjoyed some of them, struggled with other parts, but he reveals that Savage came up with a genius plan, yet he forgot one thing.  Superman says,
"Vandal's first and last mistake was that he didn't realize each and ever time stream, in the end, led home...to my family.
The last page (the image above) shows Superman, Lois, Jon, and Krypto around the table with a large birthday cake with 80 candles celebrating together as a family.

Final Thoughts:

The core of this story is the importance of family.  For Superman, Lois and Jon are his anchor.  When everything seems hopeless, it is the Kent family who instills the hope in the Man of Steel.  For us, the one true God is that anchor.  Life gets messy, and we lose focus of our mission often, but God is always present to give us hope.  Because of Jesus, we are welcomed into God's family, which comes with the benefit of Eternal Life.  We have that hope and promise, and when everything else goes wrong we can cling to the Cross of Christ.

What did you think of this story?  I would love to talk about it with you.  You can comment below, or find me @behindthecapes on Twitter, or by liking the Behind the Capes Facebook page.  Also, something new, Behind the Capes has a group called Behind the Capes' Nerd Out Round Table, where we talk about a bunch of geeky stuff.  It is technically a closed group, but anyone can join if they agree to the simple rules laid out in the group.  I would love for this group to grow!    

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