This current iteration of Action Comics will only run three volumes; with the fourth, the collections numbering will start over for DC’s “Superman Superstars” anthology initiative in the title. But Superman: Action Comics Vol. 2: To Hell and Back starts the end early, collecting only the backup stories from the final issues of Action, plus a couple of specials.
I’d have been disappointed, indeed, if DC had not collected these backups, so I’m more happy to have them than not. At the same time, none of them are great, a few perhaps suffering from new-to-DC writers penning these characters for the first time. So while again I’m glad to have the collection, it’s not particularly satisfying — lacking, specifically, for Superman himself — and only makes the wait from September 2024 when this was published to February 2025 for the next collection of Action that much longer.
