It’s this device that allows Morrison to tell twelve different stories that all weave together in that grand way that Morrison stories do when he’s completely on point. What does a man like Superman - someone who feels responsible for everything and everyone on Earth - do when he finds out that his never ending battle is almost over? He sets about doing as much good, setting as much right, as he possibly can before it’s too late.Īll-Star Superman was originally a 12 issue miniseries and each issue features one of the so-called 12 Labors of Superman, a task that he sets out to complete before his time is finished. Superman finds himself stronger, faster, and smarter than ever before (with a few new powers to-boot) but eventually his body is going to start breaking down and he’s going to die.
In effecting the rescue Superman’s cells were overloaded with solar radiation, more so than his body can handle. The pinnacle has been achieved and there will be no topping it.Īs Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s tale opens, Superman rescues the first manned mission to the Sun, which was, of course, sabotaged by Lex Luther.
Lots of books were rumored but only two ever hit stores - All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder by Frank Miller and Jim Lee, and All-Star Superman.Īnd quite frankly, after All-Star Superman there’s no point in revisiting the All-Star line. The brain child of DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, the All-Star line launched in 2005 and was meant to give big name creators carte blanche to play with DC’s icons without the burden of history or continuity to weigh them down.
It’s also some of the finest work from writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely, two creators whose work I could not hold in higher regard. It’s one of the finest superhero stories of any age, really. So I figured, what the hell - I’ll just steal it because I’m not nearly as much of a Superman as I’d like to be.Ībsolute All-Star Superman is the final Book of the Month for 2010 because the epic tale of a dying Superman is not just one of the best Superman stories I’ve ever read, but it’s one of the finest superhero stories of the modern age. I was going to attempt to elegantly describe what All-Star Superman is about but multiple Eisner award-winning designer and writer Chip Kidd beat me to it in his wonderful introduction to this collection. What does the most powerful being on the planet do with the precious little time he has left? What if The Man of Steel were dying? Really, truly dying - and not in the rock’em-sock’em Doomsday fight-to-the-death manner - but slowly and privately, as you or I might, from what amounts to a fatal cancer.
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