He turns to science to help him, but he is forced to ultimately accept his fate and make due with the time he has left as he gets his things in order. Due to a trick by Lex Luthor, Superman is finally left in a vulnerable position as his body slowly begins to destroy himself. All-Star Superman takes Superman, regresses his story a bit, and ends it before where it’s at today, which helps save the character from being as stale as he is now – and it’s positively genius.Īll-Star Superman is the tale of the final days of Superman. So when All-Star Superman came around, and Grant Morrison was given free range with the character in the same way that anyone at Marvel can play in the Ultimate Universe, it allowed him to take a lot of the things that were stale and boring and reinvent them in a way that was fresh and exciting again. I suppose this is the whole reason that JMS’ Superman run will feature Superman walking across the country and experiencing life everywhere as we know it. We know his weaknesses, we’ve seen him die and come back, and at this point we simply watch him fight bigger and bigger threats and knock them down as best as he can.
In a lot of cases, the biggest complaint I see anyone have with Superman is that there isn’t a lot to do with the character.
I am now willing to read any Superman story thrown my way, and it’s all because of the brilliance of this 12-issue tale by Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison, and it’s not even canon.Ĭlick behind the jump to see my thoughts on the book. I had read Superman stories before that, both canon and non-canon, and I had found ones that were decent enough (most of them Elseworlds stories or team books), but it wasn’t until I read All-Star Superman that I actually thought to give Superman the time of day again. There’s only one real reason I ever gave Superman a decent change though, and that’s because of a short little book called All-Star Superman. Now, with Last Stand over and War of the Supermen around the character, Superman is about to return to his own title, which I will be buying due to my enjoyment of the main author. Humorously enough, I’ve found myself reading a great deal of Superman stories as of late, mainly due to Geoff Johns’ run on Action Comics, which has led me to read Adventure Comics and Supergirl and lightly follow Superman and Action Comics (which haven’t even been about Superman as of late). It was drilled into my head during a younger and more impressionable age all the negative aspects of this God-like character, and since then I haven’t been able to look at him or read a story about him without being reminded of all these crappy character aspects.
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