An absolutely fantastic read as Grant Morrison takes the character back to his roots and 50's nostalgia.

2.5 stars. I’m mad this took me 3 days to slog through. This was a chore to read. Taking away time I could have been reading something else. I hate to bad mouth any comic since I love reading them but I found most of this boring or kind of dumb. Although I tell myself I’ll never do it, twice this book made me want to close it and never open it again. The first time was when Samson and that other dude pulled up treating Lois like an object. Telling Superman let’s battle for her and Lois was going...

Morrison is a great comic book writer, but he has a few obvious flaws that can make his work difficult to digest, and have always kept him from reaching the same heights as Alan Moore.All-Star Superman, while using the same deconstructed narrative and mind-blowingly bizarre gift of invention that are his trademarks, manages to overcome those limitations and essentially create the platonic ideal of what a Superman story should be.In twelve issues this series manages to truly show how an epic stor...

Okay, other than Frank Quitely giving Supes the physique of a championship bowler, this book wasn’t bad. It certainly was NOT the loathsome, Batman persona-raping shit bomb that All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder, Volume 1 was (I still haven’t forgiven you for that Frank Miller). I think that Grant Morrison did a good job capturing the essential, archetypal “goodness” of Superman in this homage/tribute/restoration of the icon of icons. Still, this was a swing and a miss for me...though a

4.5 starsThis is what I would recommend to someone who is not a fan of Superman. Morrison manages to take all of the things that make Superman such an iconic character, and turn it into a great story.

5.5 stars!!! Introduction: Now, I have a little confession to make (I seem to be making so many book confessions lately, right)? I had only read a few “Superman” comics over the years, which included “Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” and “Superman: Secret Identity.” The reason why I have not read that many “Superman” comics was not because I hate Superman (I actually really like his character), but it was hard for me to look for some recommendations for good “Superman”

I honestly don’t know what to think of this now that I have read it. I was fun, it was colorful and brilliant, and yet overall it didn’t make much sense to me. It’s like when they sat down to write this superman book they decided to explore x number of stories and themes and in the end all those themes and stories didn’t flow with each other in the amount of allotted pages they were given. Here’s the gist of what I saw in this book. Superman is dying by the hands of Luthor. Luthor is okay with g...

Despite the fact that I read a lot of comics -- and I do read a lot of comics -- I don't read a lot of superhero comics. Which isn't true at all, because I read a lot of superhero comics; it's just that almost all the superhero comics I read are Batman. I am absolutely obsessed with Batman in a way I've learned to live with, and I don't feel the need for non-comics fans or non-superhero fans to 'get it,' because so many other people obviously already do.But. If, say, you were getting into comics...

Dear Grant Morrison,It's not you, it's me. I should have known better. I've never been a big fan of Superman. We both know that I'm much more of a Batman sort of girl. I can't think of a single Superman book that I've loved. I probably should have left well enough alone. But I was curious, and anything had to be better than Frank Miller's All-Star Batman. That much was true. At least you seem to understand Superman's character, in a way that Miller no longer understands Batman's and has never un...

This was so good!Morrison managaes to make one of the best Superman stories ever and I loved this!Superman saves some peopne and well in the sun he goes but it sort of overloads him and what it results in a few days left and so we follow him as he meets people important to him and gets into weird adventures like hanging out with Lois, a random adventure vs Samson and Atlas and the battle with Ultra-Sphinx, or Jimmy and Clark vs Black kryptonite and that was a wild story and I loved it!There is a...

Look! Superman playing super-fetch with his super-dog! Aw!Hey, guys. Guess what I read yesterday? Superman. Isn't that weird? Well, it was "Buy 1 Graphic Novel, Get 1 For $1" Day @ my work. And I had stocked up on the latest volumes of the three series that I am currently in the middle of (Fables, The Walking Dead, Chew). I just needed one more! And the stock was looking slim (yay! sales; boo! none for me). When this guy that I work with, Tyler, hands me Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman. Since...

I've had this Comic for *ages* without reading it-& I should've read it sooner, as it's really good. :)The storylines for each episode are all different, yet often interlinking & all of the usual suspects in terms of characters are in it. The artworks nice-Retro mixed with modern with a good amount of detail when needed.However, what let it down a bit for me was the way that Clark Kent/Superman himself was drawn sometimes. As this massive, thick necked/Jawed man, that was even more obviously not...

I keep wanting to like Superman, to find those epic stories that boil him down to the essentials and show why people love him so much. All-Star Superman was one recommended to me, and I came away with nothing but meh. Most of this feels so over the top and hokey (Black kryptonite? Jimmy Olsen what are you doing? Atlas and Sampson's pissing match over Lois, let me puke), which only buries the nicer moments.Also, I have never, ever liked Quitely's art. Too many potato faces and giant bodybuilder n...

How do I rave without giving everything away or repeating what others have already said? This is Morrison at his best and most focused. It's still out there, sometimes "cerebral," funny, wacky. But it's mostly charming, classic, and true. This is how I think about Superman, omnipotent yet vulnerable, strong yet sensitive. And Clark Kent steals every scene he's in like a chubby Dick Van Dyke. Very well done. Looking forward to Volume 2 and then buying the whole in a collective hardcover edition.

Let it not be said that throughout my history of reading comics I have not given Superman and his creative teams ample opportunity to make me a fan. Because I have. Probably more opportunity than both my free time and my wallet really appreciate, to be honest. This persistent (and futile, I now realize), pursuit of the Man of Steel's fandom was most likely fueled by a few fleeting moments of brilliance in stories about him I've read in the past. (Those stories being It's a Bird... by Steven T. S...

Poor Superman is always going to start off on the wrong foot with me, and having him written by Grant Morrison doesn't make things much better. Fortunately, I've read Morrison's We3, where he lets Quitely's art do what it's supposed to do: tell the story--so I expected to see as much here. Secondly, Morrison's approach to this series pleased me, as he stated in the planning stages, that he did not want to rehash Superman's origin story, yet again. The point of All-Star Superman is to give us the...

I have a friend who's trying to convince me that I'm giving short shrift to Supes over...a lot of other superhero characters. This despite the fact that I am, to those who know me, more of a horror/noir/crime reader. I don't *love* uplifting stories. I barely *like* them, unless the uplift comes up out of some verifiable muck. The one Supes story that I *love* is the Judd Winick story, Superman/Shazam: First Thunder--which fits the bill exactly, IMO.So I can't say that I *love* this book. It was...

Too much hard to follow techno-jurgons and incomprehensible weird sci-fi elements to enjoy the Superman-adventures properly, and all the episodes felt rather disjointed and scattered instead of a firmly connected chronological development of a single plot. Still, independently, the plots of each of the episodes works, even though they were not very interesting (other than Superman slowly dying and finally revealed his trueself to Lois so that they can spend some quality time together, which was

2.75 starsI enjoyed the first couple of issues in this more than the ending ones. The artwork was pretty good but not exactly my cup of tea. The dialogue was good, and the characters were somewhat interesting. There was some action, but not an overbearing amount. Like it didn't distract from the plot.I don't really have much to say about this because it didn't stand out to me. I don't find Superman a compelling character, but I can see how Superman fans would be into this. The contrast between C...

I don't get it. It's alright, both conceptually and visually. Bogged down by a myriad of backstories I didn't know. Everybody looks too doughnutty.