The Invisible Mafia are still having clandestine meetings to discuss… nothing… while The Red Cloud still continues to fight Superman for… nothing… Elsewhere, Rose and Thorn punch Leviathan to no effect and Lex is pointlessly doing an Emperor Palpatine impression. Also Naomi cameos to help Superman punch Red Cloud again. Riveting stuff.
Yup, it’s another rote Bendis superhero book full of useless dialogue and next to no story that fails to advance what weak plotting there’s already been up to this point.
My experience of this book is definitely hurt by having read Event Leviathan beforehand and knowing the outcome of that unimpressive storyline, as this book is set before all of that idiotic noise. But Leviathan Hunt is still a crap read regardless.
It’d help if Bendis was better at making the reader understand why things are happening. What do the Invisible Mafia want? What does the Red Cloud want? And why? The Rose and Thorn stuff with Leviathan is a waste of time because nothing happens from their encounter and it’s unclear why Leviathan thinks Rose and Thorn is worth recruiting. And the Naomi cameo was equally useless - it’s just her meeting the League and nothing else. Who’s excited by that? Me neither.
An entirely superfluous and uninteresting addition to an unremarkable run, Superman: Action Comics, Volume 3: Leviathan Hunt is instantly forgettable rubbish.
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