Comics: All-Star Superman 3
Mar. 30th, 2006 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteNo spoilers, as usual.
I've been reading the Showcase Superman collection. 500 pages of pure Silver Age silliness. Fun, but lame. Lots of wacky ideas are tossed out, but there are never any consequences, and there is no sophistication at all.
By now, it's clear that Grant Morrison, despite all his strange notions in Animal Man and Doom Patrol and The Invisibles and so on, is still a child of the Silver Age. He really loved those goofball days of his youth. But it's also obvious that he wants to bring to that era's goofiness the veneer of mature writing and storytelling.
The result is a fun romp, a story that is basically done in one issue, but still should reprecussions in upcoming issues, and that can grab both child and adult.
Is it the greatest comic around? Not yet. But it has the same deft touch to Superman and his world that Kurt Busiek brought to his Superman surrogate in Astro City. It feels right.
If only this were monthly.
I've been reading the Showcase Superman collection. 500 pages of pure Silver Age silliness. Fun, but lame. Lots of wacky ideas are tossed out, but there are never any consequences, and there is no sophistication at all.
By now, it's clear that Grant Morrison, despite all his strange notions in Animal Man and Doom Patrol and The Invisibles and so on, is still a child of the Silver Age. He really loved those goofball days of his youth. But it's also obvious that he wants to bring to that era's goofiness the veneer of mature writing and storytelling.
The result is a fun romp, a story that is basically done in one issue, but still should reprecussions in upcoming issues, and that can grab both child and adult.
Is it the greatest comic around? Not yet. But it has the same deft touch to Superman and his world that Kurt Busiek brought to his Superman surrogate in Astro City. It feels right.
If only this were monthly.
