Action (48 Page Giant) Annual #10 Spoilers

[Great Rao]

By the way, what was the explanation for Non being super-strong even ON Krypton? I must have missed it...

He fell into a cauldron of magic potion when he was a baby.

(And if anyone here doesn't get that joke, I'll be forced to post the Superman/Asterix cross-over issue)

Bonus points for restoring the Disintegration Pit, the Legion exhibit and... what looks like the Supermobile (lower right corner)! Points subtracted for the lame non-Kryptonian Kandor, especially since Bainiac is said to be shrinking alien cities again, anyway!

You make a lot of good points about the Fortress.  Regarding Kandor, though, I think it's possible that DC is going to later "reveal" that the post-Crisis Kandor was actually stolen from Krypton by Brainiac and then shrunk.  Tolos just found it or something.  This would tie right in with DC's apparent "everything you ever read actually happened" approach.  Which gives us such things like the Supermobile still around in Superman's Fortress; yet he was also killed by Doomsday.

A neat approach.

[jamespup]

All kidding aside, there's no reason that a giant strong-man can't be a scientist.....the same would hold true for a midget......it's just that you don't see it all that often

[Great Rao]

Just found another review:

http://www.filmfodder.com/comics/archives/2007/02/action_comics_annual_10_reveng.shtml

[Kuuga]

Re: Clark flying around with glasses -- file that one under "artistic liscence."

I suspect Brainiac now has a blend of his pre-'86 and post-'86 origins, which would be fine by me. (Imagine: in his early days Superman fought a city-shrinking green-skinned humanoid named Vril Dox; later Dox took over the body of Earthman Milton Fine, aka Brainiac, and later still transferred his consciousness into an android body...)

They really should've gone the STAS route with Brainiac and have him be Kryptons central computer.

[forgottenhero]

They really should've gone the STAS route with Brainiac and have him be Kryptons central computer.

I think that would've been too gigantic a retcon. It would have to be reflected in Mark Waid's Legion comic, too (i.e. in Braniac 5), which began publishing before Infinite Crisis.

BTW, Brainiac will be appearing in Superman/Batman in the near future.

[Uncle Mxy]

Braniac could've been this gigantic Kryptonian computer conquering worlds like Colu on Krypton's behalf using robot spaceships and envoys (Eradicators, for post-Crisis weenies), while keeping all of the Kryptonians stuck on Krypton. 

Hmm...  the story possibilities abound!

[NotSuper]

I LOVED this issue, but I'm confused about Kandor. In a recent issue of Legion of Super-Heroes (which I also enjoyed), Supergirl visted the enlarged Kandor, which was full of Kryptonians. How then could the Tolos version (albeit altered slightly) still exist? Are there two Kandors? It was mentioned elsewhere in the issue that Kandor was "lost" (which could mean several things) and that Brainiac enjoyed shrinking cities. I don't think it's a case of the Legion and Superman teams being out of sync either, since Mon-El has been shown up in both of them. Brainiac is confirmed to show up in the Johns/Donner run, perhaps this might be addressed then.

In any case, I think I'll ask the editor.

[DBN]

I LOVED this issue, but I'm confused about Kandor. In a recent issue of Legion of Super-Heroes (which I also enjoyed), Supergirl visted the enlarged Kandor, which was full of Kryptonians. How then could the Tolos version (albeit altered slightly) still exist? Are there two Kandors? It was mentioned elsewhere in the issue that Kandor was "lost" (which could mean several things) and that Brainiac enjoyed shrinking cities. I don't think it's a case of the Legion and Superman teams being out of sync either, since Mon-El has been shown up in both of them. Brainiac is confirmed to show up in the Johns/Donner run, perhaps this might be addressed then.

In any case, I think I'll ask the editor.

Over on Geoff Johns' message board, Kurt Busiek said that it was intentional and all would be revealed in time.