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All Star Superman, Vol. 1 |  | Author: Grant Morrison
Creator: Frank Quitely
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 47432
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7 x 0.4
ISBN: 140121102X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401211028
ASIN: 140121102X
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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The team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely with Jamie Grant bring back the best-known hero in a new format.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 62
 Superman Rocks June 12, 2010
D. J. Therrien (Morrisonville, New York United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Superman is the best character. One that never loses the attention of many genres. Keep Superman alive !
 Where's all the hype coming from?!?! May 2, 2010
drakew (hell, usa)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
O.K. I'm not sure where to even start. I guess I'll start with my personal opinion that Grant Morrison is probably the most overrated writer in comics today. I had succumb to the uber hype surrounding this book. In fact, I had been hearing all about it for some time. So, imagine how excited I was to accidentally find it sitting there on the library shelf, on a day when I was absolutely broke.
So I took it home, sat down and took me time reading it...only to be severely disappointed. In fact I'm not exaggerating when I say that by the time I was done this book, I honestly thought I must have the wrong comic. This boring haphazard collection of stories couldn't possibly be the astounding revolution of Superman I had read so much about. I mean, these stories have almost nothing to do with one another. There's no climax at the end. No situations resolved. Nothing at all that makes you want to know what's going to happen next.
Also and I know it's a matter of personal taste, but the art is almost horrible to look at. Thank god it's better than his art on New Xmen (how on earth do you make Emma Frost unattractive?), but it's still sub par.
Since a lot of people do like this story my advice is to order it from your library. I honestly don't think I've ever given a comic one star and in all honesty probably would rate this at 2stars if not for that massive disappointment I felt.
A loving embrace to the Lavish ludicrous and heartwarming. April 3, 2010
Michael Talarski (Glastonbury, CT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If I'd been tasked with writing a superman arc that someone could use to get into the character I probably would have tried to make superman relevent, modern, and minimalist.
And my product wouldn't have been as good as Morrison's. Superman has been around forever, and in that time he's built up some wacky canon. The thing is, Superman doesn't work well in a minimalist gritty sense. He works best when there are evil Sun Computers, Bizarro worlds, global threats etc.
Morrison embraces it all and makes it very accessible. The story is at times funny, dramatic, touching and heroic. I would seriously recommend this for anyone even if you're not a Superman fan (I'm not really). I'm not even usually a fan of very stylized art but in this book it works.
Buy both volumes don't stop yourself at one.
I don't understand al the fuzz March 16, 2010
Xavier Zavala Heras (GYE, Ecuador)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm so sorry but this book wasn't for me at all. I think this is one of the most overated comic books of all time. I didn't even like the art.
Maybe I'm just a lazy boy, but I don't want to take a course on positronic energy applied in quantic physics in order to understand the silly logic of some parst of the book. Seems like the writer just wanted to make a pretty line when explaining how the kryptonite pistol works.
I just don't have words to express how much I don't like this book. Anyway, this is just my two cents on it.
Great take on Superman has both light and dark elements March 10, 2010
Joseph P. Menta, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All-Star Superman Volume One takes place in a re-conceived DC universe that looks back in some ways (Lois Lane doesn't know that Clark Kent is Superman) and forward in others (Jimmy Olsen is now a super-cool media personality), with the end result being a lot of fun. This initial volume of the ongoing series tells a good little story (well, stories, actually), combining hard science fiction with an often whimsical air, with a little high fantasy thrown in for good measure.
I'll have to wait until volume two to see how the bulk of Grant Morrison's big plot arcs play out, but the six individual issues of the original series that are collected here are happily satisfying in their own right, each telling a complete tale of the Man of Steel while advancing the overall business of the series. And the overall business is a doozy, involving a huge personal dilemma for Superman, one inflicted on him by classic nemesis Lex Luthor. I'm certainly looking forward to shortly picking up volume two to see how things turn out, and to see more of Frank Quitely's lighthearted yet dramatic images.
So far, All-Star Superman is quite something, projecting in both story and look an innocence and a dark complexity. Doesn't hurt that the pages turn quickly, either.
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