All-Star Superman Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

Can someone tell me what happens to Lex's eyebrow in Issue 7 (I think that's the one I'm thinking of)?

Anyway, just read this one and the "Jimmy Olsen War" one again. This really is one of the best Superman books ever.
 
Do you mean the prison issue? That's #5. His eyebrow gets burnt off or something and he draws it back on badly. :)
 
Bass said:
Do you mean the prison issue? That's #5. His eyebrow gets burnt off or something and he draws it back on badly. :)
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You don't see it get burned off or anything. He just has it and then you don't see his face for a couple of captions and then he doesn't have it.

Originally, I thought it was an art error, now I think it may have something to do with the reason as to why he's bald in the first place.
 
I said "burnt off" because I haven't the issue at hand. I assume at some point in the scuffle or the wet thing or something - or when he's bashing Parasite - at some point something goes over his face. I remember going back and checking and finding it, but I can't off the top of me head.
 
I think the reason I like it is because it's so free. There's no continuity. In addition, the cynicism of recent comics is nowhere to be found. To me, it takes the best things that have happened in the last seventy years - not just for Superman, but for comics in general - and combines them all together wonderfully, while leaving out all of the negative traits and seriousness, which has been especially seen in recent years. It's a good old fashion superhero comic, where fantastical things happen and new worlds are constantly seen, and where the flaws and negativity of real life can be forgotten for 32 pages of bliss.
 
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Doc Comic said:
I think the reason I like it is because it's so free. There's no continuity. In addition, the cynicism of recent comics is nowhere to be found. To me, it takes the best things that have happened in the last seventy years - not just for Superman, but for comics in general - and combines them all together wonderfully, while leaving out all of the negative traits and seriousness, which has been especially seen in recent years. It's a good old fashion superhero comic, where fantastical things happen and new worlds are constantly seen, and where the flaws and negativity of real life can be forgotten for 32 pages of bliss.
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None of the Superman books at the moment have any continuity. I don't think that's a reason for liking All-Star in particular.

I'd love if All-Star was the only book that didn't have any continuity to speak of.
 
Gothamite said:
None of the Superman books at the moment have any continuity. I don't think that's a reason for liking All-Star in particular.

I'd love if All-Star was the only book that didn't have any continuity to speak of.
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You mean that in a negative way, though. What I meant is that the Superman books are firmly rooted in the current DCU, with Chris Kent, the Crises, etc. All-Star Superman is the bastard child of the Silver Age and a rainbow of intelligence - and I'm loving every minute of it.
 
Me too. It's like Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?".

It's more iconic and self-contained than the rest of the Superman titles.
 
I think what I like about All-Star is that it doesn't try and pretend to be some alternate form of the world we live in. It's blatantly a magical fantasy world where anything is liable to happen and quite often, the characters don't panic or fall back in utter astonishment when something bizarre happens; they just act calmly, as if it's just another ordinary day in the All-Star universe.

I've decided that the issue with Atlas and Samson is definitely my favourite issue. Not only are they great and hilarious characters, but that issue has some of the finest Lois & Superman moments since the Christopher Reeve movies.
 
Bass said:
Me too. It's like Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?".

It's more iconic and self-contained than the rest of the Superman titles.
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Man of Tomorrow was fun, but Moore could have done a lot better with it. The ending was absolute, solid gold, though. The ultimate Superman ending.
 
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WOW.

This is going to be awesome.
 
This is just me throwing some ideas together...

One of Superman's deeds to to defeat the Tyrant Sun. I'm guessing that the Tyrant Sun is either Earth's sun, transformed due to Lex's tampering at the start of the series, or Lex himself, with the powers of Superman. (Parasite did describe Superman's power "like a sun.")

Also, if each Bizarro has a human counterpart, who is Zibarro's counterpart? The mad scientist with Alzhiemers who kidnaps Lois? That reporter guy with the immunity to the Bizarro virus?
 
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