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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