/Film Exclusive: Preview ‘Action Comics Annual #1,’ With A Story From ‘Chonicle’ Writer Max Landis
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2012 9:00 am EST
Action Comics Annual #1 is by writer Sholly Fisch and artist Cully Hamner, and it also features an 8-page backup story from writer Max Landis and artist Ryan Sook (Wednesday Comics; Jonah Hex; Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Check out a preview of the Fisch and Hamner pages below.
DC sent us the first pages of Fisch and Hamner’s story, which you can see in the gallery below. You’ll have to catch most of the Landis material in printed form.
DC explains the annual:
Landis did talk to CBR about his take on Superman, saying,
Hitting stores on October 31, this special oversized issue continues to explore the secrets of the “missing five years” between when Clark Kent came to Metropolis and the present day. And in the wake of Brainiac’s attack on Metropolis, Superman faces his first Earth-born villain: the Kryptonite Man! Plus, in the back-up story, witness the DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 introduction of The Atomic Skull!
That’s what Landis would do with a larger arc on Superman; this first 8-page story will probably be a bit more constrained. Here’s one page:
