All-Star Superman #7 (DC; Grant Morrison, writer; Frank Quitely, artist; Jamie Grant, inker, colorist) - The Bizarros have arrived, and these are not your father's Bizarros. Although if your father had some Bizarros, come to think of it, that might be pretty cool. These Bizarros are flawed versions of what Danny Boyle might envision the Body Snatchers to be: they touch you, they become you, and you become them. And you sorta go apeshit. Thus, we get Bizarro Superman and the cube world of All-Star Htrae hovering above the planet, ready to bring down doom. Well, after the last issue it seemed like Morrison might be on the mend and was actually tempering his whacked out ideas with some actual, you know, decent writing and dialogue. The main problem with this issue is that it starts in such a weird place, with the attack already well underway and Superman dumping what looks to be a giant ginger root into space then suddenly being attacked by grey clones of Iceman circa 1963. I kept thinking I had missed an issue between 6 and 7. Regardless, it's coherent--not as good as last issue, but it gives me hope that the mirror universe version of Morrison might have gone back to where it came from. Foolish of me, I know.

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