Superman: Action Comics: Superstars Vol. 2 - by John Ridley (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"Superstars" continues with an unforgettable tale about Superman's greatest gift to the world...hope in two great arcs.

Arc One by writer, John Ridley and artist, Inaki Miranda: A mystery is unfolding as Clark Kent is on the verge of discovering who is luring reformed villains back to a lives of crime, especially after Major Disaster returns to Metropolis and his old ways much to the dismay of the Man of Steel. In need of help he tries to convince Scorch to help him, when they're ambushed by a mysterious organization that holds the answers he's searching for. Will the truth continue to allude him?

Arc Two by Poison Ivy's G. Willow Wilson and drawn by fan-favorite artist Gavin Guidry (Superman '78): Needing a break from the expectations and pressures of Metropolis, Lois sends Clark to the arctic to investigate a new technology that promises to halt global warming. When Clark arrives, he discovers that the scientific outpost has been plagued by Kilgore, a villain hoping to melt humanity's hopes for survival.

This volume collects Action Comics #1082-1086.

About the Author

John Ridley is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. After both writing and directing his film debut, the 1997 crime thriller Cold Around the Heart, Ridley went on to write the novels Love Is a Racket and Everybody Smokes in Hell. His novel Spoils of War was adapted into the film Three Kings. In comics, he's written The Other History of the DC Universe, GCPD: The Blue Wall, I Am Batman , and The American Way for DC. His latest film, Shirley, which he wrote and directed, was released in 2024.

G. Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel THE BIRD KING (2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series MS MARVEL (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world's best-known superhero comic book series, including THE X-MEN, SUPERMAN and WONDER WOMAN. Her first novel, ALIF THE UNSEEN, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Center For Fiction's First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the PEN America Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle.