ALL STAR SUPERMAN TP VOL 01
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This review contains spoilers, click here to read
The story starts in a usual way - several people who went to gather data from the sun get into a boo boo, and Superman has to save the day as usual. As he returns he discoveres that his powers are amplified, but he's about to die. I hate when that happens.
That straight away shows how smart and loony Luthor is, and we're off to a strong start, but then it seems like Superman disregards his slow dying - he seems to address it in several ways, but it seems like business as usual for a cold and calculated Superman.
Each part/issue is one story (basically). Lois has a continuing story but each part feels like a full story rather then a continuation of a story.
It seems like we're getting the same old and boring things we always get.
Superman reveals to Lois that he's Superman, gives her superpowers with some concoction (which seems like a very stupid thing to invent), and she becomes part of the superhero community for 24 hours, and enjoys her first sexual harassment which is a no-no at the office, by the Butabi brothers played by Samson and Atlas. They don't mind endangering people while striving to acquire some poontang, but Superman shows them who's wearing the stud-undies in this household, and man-handles Lois (I might be wrong).
It shows him dealing with his coming death - letting Lois know that she was right and shows her around his crib (or The
Casa), hangs out with his buds having a few beers, laying back, listening to some Snoop, etc.
It's a funny part.
Lois is saved from the inappropriate "you're 16" glances by having the potion wear off. Samson wasn't such a horny dog in the Hebrew bible...
Then Jimmy Olsen gets in a tiff with his BFF, goes to interview some scientist, almost falls into one of the experiments but is saved by Superman. Something takes over Superman and Olsen has to find a way to fix him, so he decides to beat him to a pulp.
Then Superman goes to Luthor who's about to be executed by the state, but it seems like he's happy to die (although I doubt he will since he can easily escape) because he killed Superman. You can say that this is a continuation of dealing with his death and that Superman is trying to keep the world safe even after he'll die.
You see that Luthor is obsessive about Superman which isn't a surprise.
And the last part is where Superman doesn't manage to save his dad, but that doesn't seem to really effect him in any way, even though the whole "I couldn't save him" stuff is written with gravitas. Also Superman pulls a Doctor Who and goes back in time to see his dad for the last time.
During all of this you see that Superman has a dynasty in the future, which is nice but sucks in the same time - all Superman needs to do is have sex and the world is safe for ever.
It's pretty boring and doesn't seem to show anything new. The drawing style is realistic but there are too many facial features on characters - maybe if the facial features were done using color or pencil it wouldn't be as ugly.
The coloring is very bright and pretty uniform and gives everyone a fake look - I can't really pinpoint it - maybe like a doll or an "action" figure.
There's a really ugly lightening of the colors using the computer, and the colors just fade and there are white spots all over the place - it's something that was done (it seems) when using computers was fairly new to artists. I don't understand why it's done in a modern comicbook.
After all the hype about the second volume, I think I'll have to skip - I have the seventh issue and if that doesn't win me over, I won't get the rest of the issues. I don't like using those words, but this seems like a waste of time - nothing new, boring. I think that there are interesting concepts in almost any product of any medium, but here I barely see any to justify reading it.
I'll have to be convinced that volume 2 is the holy grail of dog's bollocks to read it now, because I dipped in the pool and my eyes hurt from all the chlorine.
But lets end on a positive note, with a folly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=logw8dZJLm8 . It's cut short which is a shame, and the audio is jerky at times, but it's worth it.
Here's the full version, but it's in Hebrew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FqTPeOn_Q
Art: 3 - Good
If you didn’t like vol. 1, definitely don’t get vol. 2.
I really liked All Star Supes, but the reception it’s gotten has always seemed funny to me. I really like it, but is it really so great as justify THIS much accolation? Like two issues of it came out in 2008, yet it’s been up for (and won) a few "Best ONGOING Series of 2008"-type awards. Really? There isn’t THAT much substance to this title.
People fawned over issue 10 of this series in particular. I liked it too. But many of the fawners also claim to detest Morrison’s "difficult" and disjointed work, like Batman RIP. But issue #10 of this WAS "difficult" and disjointed! I’m convinced that people just see Frank Quitely’s name on the cover and subconsciously trick themselves into liking the book no matter what. "Oh, THIS is the Morrison I like! Not all that weird, difficult, highfallutin gibberish!" By the final act, this series WAS weird, "difficult", highfallutin gibberish! There’s some sort of weird disconnect between what was actually on the page and what the collective fandom thought it saw. Again, I really liked this series, but other people act like this is the Holy Grail, then in the next breath they say they don’t like a lot of other things Morrison has written–and they name things that are very similar to A.S.S.