Three Superman stories written by Alan Moore that capture the spirit of the Man of Tomorrow just prior to DC's first Reboot of the character. The art was perfect for these stories, very much in keeping with Superman's history from the 40's to the mid 80's and the redone color work really made it pop visually. Moore's "last" Superman story tied together the characters from Superman's past, present and future, both friends and his enemies in a way that wrapped up his tale and paid homage to both t More...

Well the first Alan Moore that I could read with my (currently 10-year old) twin boys... Grateful for that, and grateful for Moore's focus on the flaws of Supes.

First story, a true celebrity must look longingly at anonymity. With Superman as a kid, you never felt that anything was at risk, so to read a book where (spoiler comes but it's nowhere near the point of the story) Krypto dies... Well, that's different. By the way, I was a little worried about my boys and this, and sure enough they both More...

Printed in 1986 but drawn and written like a comic book from the 50's, a somewhat corny and superficial story from master of the dark and substantive Alan Moore, and the final issue for Silver Age Superman putting a bow on his story line after the confusing retcon effort Crisis on Infinite Earths, it should come as no surprise that Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow is weird.

Though weird and written/drawn in a style I generally do not like, I enjoyed Alan Moore's effort quite a b More...

This is the last Superman story from the original line of comics before John Byrne relaunched the title in 1986 with “Man of Steel”, and who better to end it than celebrated 80s comics virtuoso Alan Moore? In this final adventure, Superman faces his greatest foes in a showdown outside his Fortress of Solitude before he bows out.

Alan Moore has always been a writer whom I’ve been told repeatedly is the greatest comics writer ever but whenever I read him, I’m never fully convinced of that. “Whatev More...

Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow is a hard-cover collection of Alan Moore's Superman stories. Coming in the mid-1980s, these stories showcase Alan Moore at the height of his popularity based on his critically acclaimed revamp and run on Swamp Thing.

The title story Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow is a modern classic, an apocalyptic tale that closes the book on the Golden and Silver Age Superman to make way for the reboot in the 1980s. As such, there is a feeling of gloom and terr More...

In the late 1980s DC comics started the process of reinventing their characters. The decades long habit of creating and recreating continuity had become too complicated. At the time, the hope was a streamlining of the plot lines would eliminate convoluted plot lines. Whether or not this was effective is debatable. Superman was a character who was stripped back to basics. In order to celebrate the past Alan Moore was given the task of writing a “final” Superman story before everything was re-erec More...

Well, this book made me even more of an Alan Moore fangirl.

The title story was simply fantastic. I'm generally not a huge fan of Supes, but Alan Moore captured what it was to be Superman as a person, rather than simply a hero. All of the old villains returned, and one by one, the loose threads were tied up. The introduction nicely covered the point of the story... to end the golden age of Superman, essentially. This story did just that, and not wanting to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't ye More...

Some of Alan Moore's quirkier moments pan out in this early collection of collaborative stories about Superman. Knowing what else hes done it is almost laughable on the face of it, to think Alan Moore ever wrote stories about a hero like Superman. This strange feeling kind of pervades all the stories for me, we're only given inklings of the kind of layered and more mature stories he would come to write after. The golden age age heroic icon is too insurmountable and optimistic to really be effect More...

Ah, but for the need to keep 35 different Superman titles in print at any one time in order to preserve DC Comics' copyright, this would have made a fitting and worthy final story for the greatest superhero of all. In fact, considering the mediocre drivel that has featured Kal El in the 22 years since, it is worth deleting it all and simply remembering this gem as the last Superman story ever told.

This is one of Alan Moore's finest efforts during his interminable career--here, as the end of Supe More...

I've never cared for Superman but saw this in the library by Alan Moore and enjoyed it, though clearly I didn't know all of the plot lines it was tying up. I never knew there was a Superman/Swamp Thing story! And the opening paragraph is pure genius:

"This is an IMAGINARY STORY (Which may never happen, but then again may) about a perfect man who came from the sky and did only good. It tells of his twilight, when the great battles were over and the great miracles long since performed; of how his e More...

Curt Swan, Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore - titans in the comics industry and here they deliver the ultimate coup de grace for the classic Silver Age Earth 2 Superman before the defining DC Comics event that was Crisis on Infinite Earths rewrote the continuity of their characters for decades to come... ...well until Infinite Crisis came along and brought the multiverse back again anyway.

What Alan Moore and Curt Swan did was define what was Superman and delivered the final story of his life and rede More...

Everyone hails this story -- which closes off the Silver-Age Superman, prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths -- as groundbreaking, touching, and any other superlatives you can think off...

...frankly, I can't see why.

The Silver Age Superman annoys me -- the stories are so ridiculous, wild, preposterous...even the childhood me, who loved the movies AND the comic books, wondered about the sanity of the writers once in a while. "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" feels completely contrived and s More...

"Why is it that the noblest people are the most troubled by conscience?"

"Happy birthday Kryptonian. I give you oblivion."

This is hands down one of the best Superman stories out there. It focuses on three story arcs:

Whatever Happened to the man of tomorrow? This is one of the greatest tales that describes Superman's last years of his life really well. Alan Moore does it in a fantastic and fun style. He drops in all our favorite villains and friends of Superman. And deals with them fantastically. More...

Comprised of 3 separate stories, Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow collects Alan Moore's highly acclaimed writings about the Man of Steel. The stories in Man of Tomorrow run the gamut of Superman villains and all manner of familiar faces show up. For fans of the character, this is probably great, but those less acquainted may have a hard time enjoying this book.

In the first of three, the titular story, Lois Lane tells the tale in retrospect via newspaper interview. Superman is troubled by More...

This is probably my single favorite Alan Moore story. In 1986 DC comics decided to "reboot" (the current favored term) the Superman series but before doing so, they hired Moore tie up all the existing loose ends and provide a satisfying conclusion for longtime readers and fans of the character. I suspect that it must have been a genuine thrill for Moore to work with old Superman hands Curt Swan, Kurt Schaffenberger and Murphy Anderson, who handled the art chores (along with George Perez, who was More...

The 'last ever' Superman story – and it's written by Alan Moore! Not many books can live up to that good a premise, and this isn't one of them. Like a lot of concluding stories, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? doesn't have the length it needs to feel truly climactic, and so throws in a lot of things that look significant but don't feel like it. Moore's strength is reinterpreting other people's characters, but here he's unusually beholden to his subjects. Perhaps the conclusion to 53 ye More...

I think my problem with Superman is that he's too awesome.

This is Alan Moore's attempt to end this specific run of Superman. Well, half the book is - the other is a collection of other Alan Moore Superman comics which really didn't do a thing for me. At all. I can't bring myself to care about Superman meeting Swamp Thing, or having...a birthday?

ANYWAY, the run that the book wants to talk about ends the Action Comics Superman run, I think. Regardless, it's two issues where Superman eventually ma More...

This story, which ended the continuity of the original (pre-1986) Superman, deserves to be known as the better Superman death story. It's more mature and more intelligent, without page after page of Superman and a supervillain pounding each other. It's actually sadder and more full of death than the Doomsday arc, with the deaths of some of Superman's friends and also the deaths of at least four major Superman enemies. But all the death, and Superman's disappearance from the world (he does not di More...

This collection includes Moore's classic "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?", a story from DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths that imagines Superman's last days on Earth. It also includes a fantastic short piece about an encounter between Superman and Swamp Thing, as well as a personal favorite of mine, "For the Man Who Has Everything."

Great stuff for anyone who's even passingly familiar with Superman -- you don't need to understand the whole background of Crisis to get into this, nor do you More...

This collection is surprisingly non-dated (although, it does get a little '80s in the first story). My favorite out of the bunch was in the middle - the odd one where Swamp Thing saves Superman's life and gets no credit in the end - but I think I might like Alan Moore best when writing Superman, because I liked this a whole lot more than 'Watchmen' at the end of the day. The last story - 'For the Man Who Has Everything' was almost word-for-word adapted into a Justice League cartoon episode (Jaso More...

I've never been a big fan of Superman because he's just /too/ good. I like a bit of complication in my heroes. I also haven't read much Golden Age because the writing and art is just too hoakey for me. However, this story, hoakey as it was, was actually really good. There is a prophecy, or something, that Superman will die at the hand of his greatest foe which turns out to be Lex Luthor under the influence of a reincarnated Brainiac. The twist at the end is brilliant and I enjoyed that it was to More...

At the time this book came out, Superman was worn out and in dire need of some reimagining. This book, a homage to ideas that really were past their due date, got jazzed up in an icredible fashion which really did point the way the comic would eventually go. From the way the characters turned horrifically voilent, to Superman's transformation into a killer. Moore is a real genius inthe comic world and always lives up to his status. This book also has the classic Moorian theme of loosing one's hu More...

I picked this book up and after had trouble putting it down. The first story deals with the closing chapter to the silver age superman. It was pretty good, although I was kinda sad some good characters were killed off. The next one deals with superman after he gets infected by bacteria that was on an asteroid and has a friendly encounter with the swamp thing. The last story was adapted into an episode of justice league unlimited with some differences and improvements. It was interesting seeing w More...

Reprints Superman #423, Action Comics #583, DC Comics Presents #85, and Superman Annual #11. Superman's Pre-Crisis adventures end, meets Swamp Thing, and battles Mongul. The Alan Moore Superman stories are alright but not his best. The Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow storyline seems short and overly compact by today's standards which drag out storylines too long. The Swamp Thing story is kind of interesting but rather typical and the Mongul story seems to be any Superman story you've re More...

As I get older, the ethos of Superman, as opposed to Batman, is more attractive, less tyrannical and dystopian, less fascistic and classist. Though he's an all-powerful alien, Superman's manifestation as a human is as a poor farm boy who goes to the city to work as a journalist and help the helpless. Batman, on the other hand, is a vengeful billionaire who takes no quarter and kills petty thugs regardless of the social source of their criminality. Still, even in the hands of Alan Moore, Superman More...

A nice little volume of three Superman stories written by Alan Moore. The first imagines Superman's end; it's got a nice idea, but it crams in a bit too much Supermania to really work as a story.



The second story brings Swamp Thing and Superman together. Add in Rick Veitch, and you've got a very solid horror tale, with crisp art and gripping writing.



The last story is a what-if, but a clever one. Superman dreams of his life on Krypton if it had never been destroyed.



This is probably more Superman t More...

No estamos ante un gran comic, estamos ante la mejor historia de Superman jamás contada. No sólo relata el triste deceso de personajes que con los años un lector llegó a encariñarse, sino que cuenta de una manera más que verosímil la precencia de un super hombre que se dedicó a defender la justicia en la tierra. El pasado y el futuro convergen en un excelente desenlace que bien podría considerarse como el único final posible para una historia que ha traspasado generaciones, la historia del Últim More...

Not a big fan of the Superman oeuvre. However, this book offered three Stories keying in on three aspects of weakness in the man of steel. The first story regards him falling prey to the drive for self preservation. The second shows him under the grip of a kryptonian sickness he cannot control, and in fact controls him. The third shows him in the grip of a trojan horse gift. In all three, the turning point comes in a moment of self sacrifice. Superman is good for that much at least: self - sacr More...

Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Deluxe Edition hardcover is a collection of 3 Alan Moore penned tales from the original Superman continuity before the line was relaunched and reimagined.
The first story, whose title is also the name of this collection, “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow”, is originally a two-part tale that originally ran on the two Superman monthlies. This is the story; long time Superman editor Julius Schwartz commissioned Moore to end his run on the More...

Envidio la época de mi infancia y temprana adolescencia, donde podía leer un comic sin fijarme siquiera en el autor y disfrutaba plenamente de la historia sin preocuparme por quién trataba mejor a los personajes, qué línea editorial era mejor, si la revisionista o la pro-continuidad y otras nerdeadas por las que nos hacemos mala sangre los típicos friquis como yo. Cuando salió este tomo me lo prestó un compañero del colegio (que me cargaba por leer Superman, pero bueh...) y quedé fascinado. La h More...