Why is Metropolis the kind of unrelatable futuristic neo-city where Jimmy Olsen commutes to work with a JET-PACK and floating anti-gravity BUSES roam nearly deserted streets? (This kind of Metropolis is one of the things I hated most about the Cartoon Network version and the post-2000 Superman comics… despite being a fantasy figure, Superman should live in something closer to the real world!)
I can certainly see what you are saying. Personally, I do not mind. It looks to me (so far) that Metropolis is only on the cusp of newer technologies being utilized. There is enough to suggest that it's still an early 21st Century city (i.e., cars & trucks on the road w/ tires as opposed to hover-cars) Perhaps Metropolis is the only city to have these latest breakthroughs and modern marvels, while somewhere like Gotham City would not.
Why is Steve Lombard working at the Daily Planet? In the old days, he was a sportsCASTER, never a writer, and he had no actual talents outside of playing football, engaging in sexual harassment and partying.
In this All-Star version, the Daily Planet is Morrison's workplace of choice and he probably felt that adding Lombard (as pathetic an individual as you can get) would be a quirky one for the more straight-laced supporting cast complete with mullet and 70's style thick moustache. Making him a sports writer as opposed to sportscaster is not that much of a stretch, in my opinion.
It was convenient that the Doctor Whowilly Wonka billionaire guy had a tiny little piledriver capable of exerting 200 quintillion tons worth of force, but WHY would he have such a thing available, and WHAT could he have previously needed it for? Superman has his flying power to keep from being simply driven through the floor by that much pressure, but anything else WOULD be, no?
Most likely that sort of equipment would be used to test the upper strength levels of certain creations of his, to test them properly for the rigors that they were made to endure.
Why would a U.S. army general, who must have more combat experience than you can shake a stick at, stand there lazily and allow Luthor to choke him?
Well, perhaps he did off panel...we do see that later on that workers are taking down all of Luthor's notes and equipment as the police arrive to cart him away. Perhaps General Lane broke off from Luthor's grip and called for back-up to send Luthor packing.
Why are Willy Wonka… I mean Quintus… and his DNA Chocolate Factory using Solomon Grundy and Bizarro as models for their bio-engineered Oompa Loompas, when such creatures have a history of going on the rampage?
A creature like Bizarro had generally been created by accident. A creature like Solomon Grundy was created by forces we don't quite fully understand. Quintum had created such workers under a controlled environment, and therefore had greater success for creating individuals that would not rampage.
WHY wouldn’t a better chosen “All-Star Superman” team be, oh, perhaps Elliot S! Maggin and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez?
Who's to say that they wouldn't be a future creative team on All-Star Superman? As much as I would enjoy to see Morrison & Quitely stay on indefinitely, alas I don't believe that it is in the cards.
Confidence, minus arrogance, plus a way of just OOZING benevolence, WITHOUT being a naïve man-child, IS Superman to me. Morrison nailed it precisely.
Best of all, Morrison chose a (sort of) endearing clumsiness, instead of an annoying cowardice, to make the Clark personality an effective disguise.
I agree whole-heartedly.
So you see my feelings are somewhat mixed. Maybe they will change as the next issues gradually come out and I get more used to the Morrison / Quitley approach.
Perhaps it will, time will tell. :wink:
Please use quote tags next time, so that we can tell who wrote what. -SM