Action 979: the title continues to impress as Lois and Clark decide to move back to Metropolis. The Revenge Squad moves closer to their plan and seem to wrap up their search for Squad members.
The story had some nice moments: Lois concerned about their new home and how Clark will come and go as Superman unnoticed. They are worried about how Jon will adjust to city living. Superman making sure to remove his wedding band before heading out on a mission . Little touches like this remind us that Superman has to be extra careful now to protect his identity and family.
Patrick Zircher delivers on the art with several splash pages throughout complemented by Hi-Fi's colors. There is an awesome panel that seems to be inspired by the Superman movies showing Clark running through an alley and changing to Superman.
Great issue!
9/10

I dropped it immediately when I saw this issue. Good write up here. Very idiotic story because of Celebrity Date Auction. How in the world that Cale out bid two of the world's wealthiest men ... Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor is beyond speechless. I get these for free from a friend and stopped reading it after this opening moronic segment.

I totally agree. This run started out great esp with Year One but Rucka seems to have lost interest at this point.

The alleyway scene coupled with the previous scene of Superman saving Lois from falling while hoisting the helicopter, they've picked some great homage shots during this story.

I would say that roughly half this issue was just Clark & Lois discussing their impending move which was a very good thing. The depth of maturity of their discussion, the growth of their family as they discuss the pros and cons of such a move, it was all handled very well.

As for the Revenge Squad, loved Mongul and his attitude here. But his final action after witnessing the rebirth of a classic villain coupled with who the Squad is looking to recruit next, wow, the danger and excitement factor just tripled. An excellent issue.

8/10

X-Men Blue #3 -  The O5 respond to an apparent attack upon a young female mutant by a group of Sentinels only to discover that the Sentinels are there to 'protect' her after the onset of her abilities caused damage and mayhem. While wary of this motive, the Sentinels take the team and the young mutant to meet their leader, a return of another classic X-villain.

After witnessing the extinction nearly caused by the Terrigen crisis, this foe now wants to 'help' mutants survive and has re-purposed this group of Sentinels to help him do just that. He offers the O5 a chance to join him on his mission, which the young mutant, feeling guilt over the chaos and damage she caused, initially takes him up on his offer. But then, using a nice twist of robotic logic, Hank discerns the foe's true motives, forcing Jean and the others to attack instead. However, the X-foe and his Sentinels refuse to fight them and escape instead to carry on their new 'mission'. Heartbroken, the young girl is offered a chance at Kitty's school by a consoling Jean.

Bunn offers up an interesting drama as an analogy here, the X-foe's offer to join him on what seems to be an ideal venture, the young girl's reasoning for why she wants to initially, it echoes and parallels the team's own deal with Magneto. The outcome supports the doubts they are having about working with their former foe. Bunn's choice of this foe to make such an offer is quite interesting and I hope to see him and his group of Sentinels again at some point (C'mon, a color-coded group of Sentinels ala Power Ranger-ish with their own unique power set, why haven't we had this before now? Brilliant). Molina's art captures well the action and youthful indecision on display here.

So far, this is the best X-title of the relaunch.
9/10