Superman Through the Ages! Forum

Get out to your local store or shop and buy A-SS#6. Story and artwork are beautifully rendered. Everything just fell into place for me reading issue six. Superman is Superman again. Thank you Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, and Jamie Grant.

If DC publishes an Absolute edition, I'll be first to pre-order.  ;D

There's one million good reasons to get this book.
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The best yet !

With this issue, the title now carries a "Eisner Award Winner: Best New Series" seal, and the book deserves it.  This is the best Superman I've read in quite a long time.

But the biggest surprise was seeing that our own Beppo is going to be the next Doctor Fate!

I knew the waterworks would flow from the cover but boy what a great yarn - Krypto worth the price of admission.  Just jaw dropping goodness!

I really enjoyed this one as a modern way to tell a story with very Silver Age sensibilities.  There was even a surprise at the end I didn't see coming!

Fun stuff.  Can't wait until July 4 when the next one comes out.  ::)

SUPERBOY LIVES!!! KRYPTO LIVES!!! TAKE THAT, JOHN BYRNE!!! ;D

What a WONDERFUL BOOK! And this was best issue yet!!!! It's just a crying shame that such a GREAT book takes so darn long to come out! Still; if there is a series out there that is worth the wait...

BEN

I have not yet received my copy from my local comic shop.. :'( :'(

I regard this as the best Superman book out currently.  Yes, it is a shame that it doesn't come out on a more regular basis.
It seems to be a mixture of the Silver Age Superman with new elements worked in.  And it works this way, too.  We will probably never get the Silver Age Superman back, but this is the next best thing.

I pretty much agree with everyone else, this is the best Superman (if not overall) comic book series in print right now.  It's fun, feels nostalgic, and yet, is completely unpredictable.  So far, every issue has left me wanting more, so few books do that nowadays.

Another fantastic installment in Morrison's "All-Star Superman" series.

The artwork was breathtaking, though confused me at times. I mistook "Calvin" for a young Lex Luthor (with hair) in the first panel in which he appeared. I then spent the next couple pages trying to predict what evil scheme Luthor had in mind (or how he would lose his hair this issue). I also thought the imp was Mxyzptlk at first, but that's not Quitely's fault since the character WAS a Fifth Dimensional imp after all. To my credit, I at no point thought the bandage faced Superman was Hush. :)

Quitely draws animals EXTREMELY well. See any shot of Krypto here or previous Morrison/Quitely collaboration, We3 (which I highly recommend) for further proof. The young Superman (I don't believe he was ever referred to as SuperBOY... legal reasons?) looked sufficiently different from the elder Superman, though his face on the very first page was a tad... off.

The story itself evoked memories of early Legion of Super-Heroes with a team of Supermen from the future standing in for the Legion. I assume this was deliberate, especially with the recruiting of Superboy in Smallville to help out with a future menace. Why not use the ACTUAL Legion? Maybe they want to keep the guest appearances to a minimum in this series. Maybe they're saving the Legion for their own All-Star series. Then again, maybe Morrison just couldn't resist revisiting his "DC One Million" work. Hey, that was a great story, so I don't mind. Just seems odd to use it in a seemingly continuity-free series (to be fair, you don't need to have read DC One Million). Morrison had already brought in Solaris, the Tyrant Sun, so I guess he had opened the door for more One Million elements to be used.

The stuff with Pa Kent was touching, but showed remarkable restraint. Morrison seemed more interested in wowing us with sci fi coolness than tugging at our heart strings. For that, he should be commended. He struck just the right balance, and overwhelming us with attempts to sadden the reader would have been kind of cheap in my opinion (also sort of lazy, but again that's just my opinion).

The reveal of bandage man as modern day Superman legitimately surprised me. It also retroactively gave his talk with Pa in the fields more meaning. See what I mean about Morrison not going for the cheap sob story moments? That was IMO the most touching (and saddest) moment in the book, but you don't even realize it until later. Good reason to read the book again!

The appearance of future Superman was also nice. Apparently Superman WON'T die from his current ailment. Whew! I was really worried about that. ;)  I also liked Superman asking him which one of his descendants he was. Heh.

So where's Krypto in modern day? Hopefully we'll see him at some point (though not TOO much.... imo Krypto works best in small doses). Oh yeah, how cool was that shot of Superman and Krypto sitting on the moon looking at the Earth?

-Chris

PS: My first post! :)

Hi Chris!  Welcome!

I agree --lots of great moments and some quite nice artistic touches.  This is only the second issue of a modern superhero comic I've bought in the last 12 months (the other being an earlier issue of All-Star that I didn't like half as much --even though Jimmy Olsen gets turned into a monster in it).  I like Morrison's One Million-verse (although Superman 1 Mil always appears as sort of a jerk in the stories I've read).  Great overtones of classic silver age stuff mixed with fresh new additions and patented Morrison weirdness.  I can't say why I broke down and bought this comic (boredom? desperation? nostalgia?) but I was pleased --it did what a kids comic should do.  Too bad the issue wasn't about $1 or $2 cheaper and packaged with 2 other stories.  And too bad another one isn't coming out 30 days after this one.  And too bad there isn't a whole publishing company devoted to making these kinds of comics.

Speaking of Smallville, I hope Morrison revists Luthor's turn from boy genius to the world's greatest villain.