false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167348919m/22369.jpg 22369 4 Two of the comics industry's top creative talents, writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely, the acclaimed team behind JLA: EARTH 2, reunite to redefine Superman based on the timeless, essential iconic elements that everyone knows about the Man of Steel. In the first volume, the World's Greatest Super-Hero rescues a doomed group of astronauts on the surface of the sun when he's exposed to massive amounts of solar radiation no one could possibly anticipate how he'll be affected - except Lex Luthor! 23395 4 4 2007 All Star Superman: Volume 01 total:963|5:479|4:298|3:147|2:34|1:4| 963 4105 1088 122 5 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 14 11:26:06 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 11:36:34 -0800 2008
All-Star Superman, while using the same deconstructed narrative and mind-blowingly bizarre gift of inven...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 27 19:22:17 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 18:08:57 -0700 2008
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This first volume is a collection of the fi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 13 07:40:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:54:16 -0700 2009
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This was so popular a read on the comics sites I occasion and it's been so roundly lauded on sites that aren't even about comics that I figured that at the least this was some sure-fire entertainment. And I'm sure that for some, it was. I, u...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 12:02:55 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 09:54:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 17:09:37 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 17:30:43 -0700 2009 1
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I wanted to like this series -- Frank Quitely's odd artwork was a major attraction in itself -- but Grant Morrison's studious attempt to reinvent the Silver Age Superman ultimately doesn't work very well. Like the disastrous 2006 Superman Returns, it tries to connect its...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=22369