I finished the 2nd volume of All-Star Superman 2 hours ago, and I'm still stunned. There's so much packed into these 12 issues - so much magic and super-science and HOPE. I was never a Superman fan before this, but Morrison and Quitely make him work. They fold all the Silver Age weirdness - Bizarros and duplicates and tiny Supermen shooting from Supes' hand - into a unified whole. There's so much joy in every panel, and it all makes the best kind of dream-sense. Of course Kandorians are tiny surgeons. Of course there's a poetic, normal Bizarro. Of course we need Jimmy Olsen as much as we need Kryptonian super-science.Of course Superman will talk a young girl out of suicide.Of course he would create a world without a Superman, and it would be our world.The closest thing to faults are the usual Morrison tropes - Lex's niece as his fantasy girlfriend, bits of pseudoscience complete with references, Lex Luthor's superpowers as drug trip. But even they work.Read this comic. It will change your life. This was a brilliant take on a classic hero. Grant Morrison is teetering the line between telling a classic, silver-age yarn--mixed with his patterned psychedelic weirdness. He never goes too far off the deep end like he does in other books (i.e. Invisibles, Doom Patrol, The Filth), but instead pulls the narrative back to a familiar place/character. I absolutely loved the veer into Bizarro World--where the Bizarros are framed like zombies in a chaotic Idiocracy--a place where copies-of-a-copies go to live out their meaninglessness. It's profound really, a mirror of sorts to our own world--which is the point of Bizarro World. Can't recommend this one highly enough.
Not bad for a superhero comic. I dearly love the comics medium, but at this stage in my life I find the super power fantasy genre to be generally tiresome. This book has the benefit of being free of the baroque continuity that is the millstone around the neck of most DC or Marvel books, it is beautifully drawn by Frank Quitely and it has one or two sweet, strange signature Grant Morrison moments.But it still wasn't that much fun for me. Maybe this will actually be the last time I give one of these a try.
—wilde
After hearing so many great things about this book, I was really excited to read it. Unfortunately, while there were some good parts in their, it ultimately didn't do a lot for me. I don't think it was a bad book at all but I think Grant Morrison is just not for me because I just don't "get" what he is trying to say most of the time.Also, while I think the art in general was good, I really don't like the design for Lois Lane, she looks like a teenager.
—line
A perfect story by guys who really get superman, and why he is an important figure to some readers.
—julia4eva4
I'm not normally a fan of Superman. This was amazing. Definitely worth picking up.
—carri
Needed more knowledge of comic books and Superman specifically to appreciate.
—pli71
