Volume 2 nicely wraps up All-Star Superman: Volume 1. Morrison does an incredible job reminding us just why Superman is still what everyone automatically thinks of when imagining a superhero. He manages to suck all of the cheesiness out of a character who is primarily known for being a goody-goody, and point out that honesty, integrity, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice are actually pretty cool.

Not a very compelling read, and rather choppy.I've never been a great fan of Superman, but I don't think that's clouding my judgment on this one. Frank Quitely does a good job of drawing Clark Kent but his Superman is pudgy and the only thing that stands out from his face is his massive jaw - I think I'd probably look more 'Supermanly' in Spandex than Quitely's version.Lex Luthor looks like a cheap sidekick of a two-bit villain in a B-flick. Nowhere close to the evil genius, and the epitome of v...

What the...Huh??...Not sure what I missed along the way, but this story did exactly bupkis for me. One of the most critically acclaimed and popularly embraced graphic novels of the past decade; a landmark portrait of THE iconic superhero…and I couldn’t rustle up a damn to give about it. Honestly, I’m a little crushed. Granted, as I’ve mentioned before, Superman is not among my favorite spandexer. I tend to gravitate towards grittier heroes with more snarl to them, and often find the Man of S

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

Damn this good. Morrison's imagination is boundless and Quitely's art is gross, ugly, beautiful and perfect. This is a love letter to the optimistic insanity of Superman, and its joy is so infectious that I couldn't resist. This is closer to the 1940s science fiction fantasy than superhero comics, and reflects some of the boundless idealistic science fiction of the 50s, pulpy and hopeful. In the end, what is so surprising about this Superman book is that it's not only a great story about Superma...

As I said with my review of part 1, I am a newbie to the world of graphic novels. I read very few true comics growing up, aside from humor strips like The Far Side, Garfield, Peanuts, etc. I had an affinity for Superman having grown up in awe of the Christopher Reeve films, even the 3rd and 4th ones before I was too artistically astute to know any better. Prior to this, I'd never actually read anything about Superman, but having taken a recent interest in graphic novels and having seen this two-...

The story started in the first volume ends here, and it truly is a complete storyline. There's a lot of seemingly unrelated stuff in here, including a painfully extended bizarro storyline. God, I hate reading bizarros. There's a Silver Age-y feel to it all, which is not exactly to my taste. But it's competently done. The overarching storyline is actually pretty interesting, though it's a shame I can't feel the same about the subplots. The art is still Frank Quitely, and still way too round for m...

While the first volume seemed a bit kitschy, this one feels full of reverence for the big guy. Each story feels full of life and pathos, prolly not least because we're careening towards the death of Superman (again).Funniest moment? Emergence of the Green Lantern (not to be missed).Love letter to Superman indeed. Morrison writes amazing stuff when he really puts his heart into it, and Quitely paints some incredible pictures (with actual depth and variety) when he make the effort.

Although Superman has never been a favorite of mine, I think this book is one of my favorite depictions. The different situations he's in force him to be drawn out a little as a character, and he has to make some tough choices, admit where he's gone wrong, and stay steadfast about the things he's done right. There are also a couple very tender moments not to be forgotten.After reading Batman, Superman, Animal Man, Authority, JLA...I think Grant Morrison does his best work with the big, blue Boy

The second half of the All Star Superman storyline. As I mentioned in my review for Vol. 1, I don't normally like many Superman stories. Grant Morrison hit all the right marks in this book though. It really sums up the essence of what Superman is really all about. It's not just some guy that wants to save the world with his incredible strength and powers, but someone who draws his strength through his fundamental belief in humanity. Chapter 10 quite possibly has one of the best pages that illust...

Pretty interesting volume as we have Superman travel to the Underverse to meet Bizarro and Zibarro and well its a short story of how he escapes from there and meets the reverse people and frankly its an irritating read but then again the next few stories how he battles Solaris and is suffering cell breakdown and helps Kandor people and the final fight with Lex and all that is pretty fun too.Its okayish volume and I kinda enjoy Superman in his last moments and the battle with Lex is awesome and M...

(2 1/2 stars) For being one of the quintessential Superman stories, I have to say this was a let down. I loved the art, overall, but otherwise there were only a few moments I really liked. The first two parts are Bizarro stories — these have always been terrible and unpleasant to read, no matter the author. After that we finally start solving the problem established in Vol. 1, namely Superman's cells killing him.At this point it started to make a bit more sense: he's on a countdown to his own de...

I'd read both volumes of All-Star Superman before, but had unfortunately read them roughly a year apart from each other, which undermined their power a little... so I used a lull in my reading to revisit both volumes back-to-back. And, now having done so, I can say with some confidence that these are my favorite Superman stories I've read. As far as superhero comics go, I've always been a X-Fan, with most of the monthly titles I read being some branch of the X-men franchise. That said, when Supe...

The wrap up to Morrison's seminal story about Superman is much more focused than the first volume and deals with the plot head on. I think the first volume is an exploration of the wonders of Superman's world, while this volume is the "wrapping up" that Superman has to do before he dies. Morrison does a great job of moving the plot along and a nice pace but by placing the impending death kind of in the background, it makes every bump in the road that much more exciting. We all know Superman's ti...

Following the success of All Star Superman Volume 1 comes the next book from the brilliant creative duo of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. In this book Superman saves Earth from a Bizarro invasion only to be sucked into a parallel Bizarro world and have his powers taken away; two astronauts from Krypton wind up on Earth while Superman is in this parallel universe and try to start a new Krypton on Earth; meanwhile a poisoned and dying Superman records his last will and faces his final challenge...

Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman is one of the few Superman comics I've really enjoyed. I think he gets right what most writers get wrong concerning Superman. Most of the time, in order to make a threat credible, due to Superman's great power, writers make Superman so dumb he can't see the obvious threat in front of him to allow it to almost overtake it him, only to get out of it in a rather unconvincing manner at the end by beating the crap out of it.Morrison avoids that mistake. Rather than

This worn thin quickly, after the first volume. Morrison made a good decision to only do 12 issues, as his premise is worth about that many issues. Very quick fun. It seems deep, I suppose, in that Morrison is bringing in stuff from outside the comic book world and putting them into a Superman comic. None of it feels very new or fresh, and by the end, when Superman is "creating life" just so he can problem solve, it just became awkwardly apparent that these characters really mean nothing, but in...

Despite being a huge Grant Morrison fan, I’ve avoided his critically acclaimed ‘All-Star Superman’ for some years now. I’ve owned it since it was first collected, and I don’t really know why I never felt to read it, but I think it might subconsciously have something to do with the fact that I generally don’t do out-of-continuity stories. Considering that DC Comics continuity in particular is so fluid and senseless, and the fact that (as Alan Moore so humbly put it in his own Superman classic) th...

Wow, a whole lot better than the first volume! With a more definite cohesive unique storyline, engrossing actionpacked developments from the very beginning, and most of all in defining the characterization of Superman, this volume rectified almost all the misgivings I've had with the first one. What this book demonstrated above all else, is that it had heart. It defined beautifully what makes Clark Kent Superman (at the same time what makes Superman Clark Kent), why he's world's most recognizabl...