What a fantastic book. But then with Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely at the creative helm, what did you expect? I mean . . Grant is all over the place with this story. He is totally in his realm here. And Frank's pencils are just phenomenal. There's a few panels in here that I would really like to blow up and frame. But I always say that. Anyways, Grant introduces us to the Bizarro world this issue. They appear to have no form, until they come in contact with another life form. And then it replicates them. But then it seems like the host and the alien are then Bizarro's. And of course one of them comes in contact with Superman. So then he uses one of his new powers (?) to take it down. Temporarily! But they seem to have found some of it's weakness' already. Apparently it can't take over a body on steroids, and yellow sunlight makes it sick. And since the whole Bizarro planet is in the earth's atmosphere, Superman has to find a way to push it in to the sunlight. Currently it's on the dark side of the planet. But, when he goes to their planet, he finds that he's losing his powers. But he's found help. "One in every 5 billion copies is flawed. Unique. Different. Not mindless like these shambling mockeries . . . but sensitive, and self-aware. Suffering. Alone. In a world of confusion." And of course the Bizarro that's telling him this also looks like him, and calls himself Zibarro. And he looks like he's the lone human on a planet of freaks. But that's ok, because next issue he's going to have to help Superman get back home. I like the way Grant is doing this series. Kind of like the Superman stories of the 70's. Each book was it's own story. They were connected . . . but they weren't. And sometimes, in his own book, his stories contradicted each other. Not Grant's, but the one's in the 70's. Sometimes the only thing consistent about them was the artist, Curt Swan. You always got the sense that the stories were happening around the same time. But then you'd see inconsistencies in the back-up characters. Nothing major. But little things here and there. But I really get the feeling that Grant is paying homage to those types of stories. And that era. At the time, they were fantastic. To look back on them now . . . not so much. But there is a certain nostalgia to them, and I feel Grant has captured that here. This book hasn't been coming out on a consistent basis, but it's always worth the wait. Which is good, because . . . Everybody wants some!
