I always feel like there's a giant brick wall called Morrison's blegh writing putting a barrier between me and what he's trying to say, ultimately it just made the book a horrible chore to read and absolutely failed to make me care about anything that was happening. There is rarely any kind of good flow to it and as a consequence I find myself not being able to properly get into the story. Characters (particularly Lex, oh boy) talk in these bizarre ways that make them come off as aliens pretending to speak like people rather than real people, also Lex should not have say stuff like "pretty cool huh!". The writing itself is the cause of this, the conversations rarely ever flow naturally to me.
Now I'm not the biggest fan of Superman, but should I need to be to feel sad that he's going to die? I certainly didn't like Wolverine at all, but his recent death managed to get quite a few emotional responses out of me, so why does Superman's fail at this? The biggest offense though is that the book is both boring and absolutely fails on every level to make me care about Superman dying. Now I did like that he uses his clumsiness as a method to save people while he's out of costume, but is it really necessary? You're telling me he can't do anything more subtle to pull it off or just use regular super speed to pull off the same thing? and turning into Doomsday but neither Batman nor Wonder Woman gets a last team up with a fellow Trinity member?! Superman is dying! I know he's keeping it a secret for most of it but if Morrison wanted to establish a Superman only universe, then he shouldn't have gone out of his way to reference other heroes several times! It only makes their absence even more glaring!Ĭlumsy Clark Kent is another "classic" trope of Superman that I'm glad got the ax, Morrison however begs to differ. Where are all the other heroes? In a storyline where Superman is dying, I want and need to see other heroes because its Superman dying for crying out loud! Why the hell is Jimmy Olsen getting an issue where he's director of P.R.O.J.E.C.T. But he doesn't, Lois is still annoying as ever with her flirting with the two time travelers after Superman gives her the best gift ever being a great low point and her constant refusal to accept that yes, CLARK IS SUPERMAN! just comes off as her trying to justify not figuring it out. The relationship between Lois and Clark gets a good amount of attention as it should, and while I have never liked either Lois or her romance with Superman, with better writing Morrison easily could've made me care for it in this situation. The Bizarro portion in particular was so loaded with this I barely had the stomach to finish it. Its sheer dominance in the story only made me less interested as things went on and the issue in prison which was largely devoid of it was like a breath of fresh air after getting drowned in a filthy ocean. The constant focus on this ridiculous sci-fi, silver age-y technology doesn't come off as clever but only trying to hard to sound and look cool. I am not one of these people however or else we wouldn't be making this thread.Īll Star Superman pretty much embodies not only some of the things I hate about Superman but comics in general. So by the name of the thread alone I'm pretty much painting a target on my back but after reading it I feel the need to ask, does anyone else really not like this story?įor a certain section of the Superman fanbase, I understand perfectly why it's one of, if not the best Superman stories of all time.
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