Grant Morrison returns Superman to his Silver Age sci-fi roots as he pens this timeless superhero story. After saving humanity’s first attempt to land a mission on the sun which was sabotaged by his long-time nemesis Lex Luthor, Superman has become more powerful than ever due to his overexposure to yellow light at the heart of the sun. His powers have been amplified and has also gained new ones but at the cost of imminent death. He sets out on his own Herculean labors to cement his legacy before...

This is a stunning achievement that fans and non-fans of Superman will enjoy. It’s quiet, nostalgic, and gorgeously illustrated. I don't know what is and isn't considered a spoiler for this book, so I'll err on the side of caution. Superman is delivered some fateful news involving a situation orchestrated by his arch nemesis (how's that?), and he proceeds to reflect on his life, his choices, and the people that are close to him. As he does this, events unfold beyond his control which lead to inc...

All-Star Superman is one of those titles I return to every few years to re-read. It's Superman at his finest. While he's more powerful than ever due to a trip to the sun, it's his humanity that is his greatest strength. Like Morrison's run on Batman, this is Morrison's ode to the Silver Age. It's packed with odes to classic goofy Superman stories from the 50's and 60's. Yet, when Morrison gets through with them, they aren't goofy at all. He's put a super science spin on them that I delighted in....

"You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race and stumble, and fall and crawl, and curse . . . and finally . . . they will join you in the sun, Kal-El. In time you will no longer be alone." -- Jor-El (Kryptonian daddy-o of Kal-El, a.k.a. Superman, regarding earthlings)Based on reviews - and quite a few of them are from GR friends - I was ready for the saga of All-Star Superman to rock my world . . . and then, frustratingly, it didn't quite get the...

It seems the gushing reviews of All Star Superman are from people who are able to compare it against the older material. This Superman does away with this, it improves on this, it reinvents this, etc. The excellence of this work seems to stem from how it experiments with or tweaks that which precedes it. In other words, its success relies on past knowledge of the canon whether it stands in DC continuity or not. But without knowledge of the purportedly inferior work that All Star Superman is work...

Growing up, my love of superheroes came from watching cartoons from the 90s. Whilst I love Batman and the Marvel heroes like Spider-Man and the X-Men, I never had a keen interest towards Superman. Part of it may have to do with his look (notably the outside red undies), and perhaps his abilities in which he is almost indestructible and isn't really the bad-ass that Batman is. In the mid-noughties, Superman was coming to my radar after watching the first two Christopher Reeve films and eventually...

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This book was so larger than life and epic as Superman should be... it has been a while since i read it but the gods and superman's competition for Super Lois's hand was beyond epic... I really loved it. i really liked how Jimmy Olsen was Doomsday...it's such a hommage to silver age Jimmy Olsen book and so dramatic... Superman's best pal will be one of his worst enemies... may be even they will kill each other... The conversation between Clark and Lex in prison was just briliant. And Superman wa...

2 Stars Was this the book with all the hype? With all the praises?... Did I really read the same book that everyone else loves? Well... Disappointing is one word I'd use. Boring is another one. Disconnected is pretty much the one that defines me reading this book. Apparently All Star Superman is the book that will make you love Superman! Doesn't matter if you aren't familiarized with the character, doesn't matter if you're new to comics. This is the one title that is always recommended as one of...

After being overloaded by solar radiation on a trip into the sun, Superman is dying and has some loose ends to tie up...This book had some strikes against it from the start. It's one of those hyped books that everyone talks about and it stars Superman. Apart from the Dini/Timm animated series, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and DC Comics Presents when I was a kid, I've never been a tremendous Superman fan. To top it off, Grant Morrison wrote it...

I'm not really big fan of Grant Morrsion's writing and I up till now I haven't yet encountered particularly good story involving Superman in any medium so I'm kind of surprised with myself that I picked up this comic and even more surprised that I loved it.

Quintessential Superman? Quintessential Superman! For anyone who says that Superman isn't a relatable superhero, please read this. Morrison does an incredible job when it comes to the characterisations of both Superman and Clark Kent. It's such a touching, heart wrenching and raw experience which really explores what it's like to try and accomplish / achieve everything in your life when on a ticking clock. I find the art to be extremely charming, but it did take me a while to get used to it as i...

It took me a long time to pick this up because 1) I am not all that interested in Superman as a superhero. . . the usual: too perfect, not complex enough, as usually depicted; 2) I am not that into Grant Morrison as a writer and 3) that stupid title (and I don't care that it is a geek homage to something in 1965 or whatever, it is a dumb title that would only attract superhero geeks). Not inviting or evocative of anything. But I was encouraged by several of you to read it via rave reviews I skim...

Sooooo...weird. I always thought that I had read this. I mean - its Frank Quietly, an artist I absolutely adore. Not to mention that it's written by Morrison.And then I figured out that I hadn't ever actually read it. For whatever reason, I always confused it with Superman: Secret IdentityYeah, I dunno how that happened.So anyways, upon this realization, you can bet your milk & cookies that I ran out and got me a copy of this right fucking quick!!And you know what? Meh. Kinda disappointed.Don't

Morrison and Quitelty's multi Eisner Award winning stand alone superman tale, which although most splendidly drawn, did not tick that many boxes for me, after a very promising start. 6 out of 12

A brilliant book. One of G.M.s absolute best.

Superman is the only superhero I've always truly hated (ok, and Squirrel Girl too) and this book certainly didn't change my opinion, all of these twelve issues reads as individual stories, and while some of them were very good on their own, some others were the perfect example of everything I hate about the character.

2.5 stars. I’m mad this took me 3 days to slog through. This was a chore to read. Taking away time I could have been reading something else. I hate to bad mouth any comic since I love reading them but I found most of this boring or kind of dumb. Although I tell myself I’ll never do it, twice this book made me want to close it and never open it again. The first time was when Samson and that other dude pulled up treating Lois like an object. Telling Superman let’s battle for her and Lois was going...

3.5 stars.Didn't quite impress me as much as it did many others, I think because I kept comparing it to the greatest "superhero eulogy" story ever (IMO), Silver Surfer Requiem. It never quite reached that level of beauty and somber finality for me, though.Still, the parts that were great were REALLY GREAT, and this easily enters the canon of essential Superman stories.

Besides reading the original comics and watching the movies, I don't think I have read any other Superman comic before. I don't even care for him or Batman (I'm a Wonder Woman kind of guy), but I really liked this comic. I watched the movie that was based on this comic and liked that as well. This is what the Man of Steel movies should of been and not the crap it turned out to be (sorry). I also read this because I like most Grant Morrison's stuff. He really added some heart and soul to the stor...