The back of the Absolute has some great back matter, a lot of it pertains to ideas and concepts that Morrison had to drop – which is a shame – and the rest is dedicated to expanding upon the characters present within the book. I spent a good ten minutes on each panel, engrossing myself into the world that the two have built. It’s almost enough to actually take away from the building momentum of Morrison’s script. With the release of the Absolute edition a few weeks back, I poured over each enlarged page looking at all the beautiful amount of details that Quitely puts into his art. He’s constantly clumping around, all hunched over, with his head looking down. Instead Quitely gives us a Clark Kent who’s oafish and too big for his own good: this is especially apparent in the visit with Lex Luthor in issue #5. Most artists would have drawn Clark has slightly smaller than Superman, or maybe just forgone the whole thing and drawn him the same proportions as Supes. Morrison has always had a good handle on Superman, but it’s not often that we see his Clark Kent.Īnd what a Clark Kent he was, and I think we all know that it had a little bit more to do with Frank Quitely’s rendition of the bumbling farm boy: but if you remain quiet, I’ll just assume that my statement is 100% correct. I think we can all agree that All Star Superman is the best Superman story since Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow if you disagree let me know in the comments.
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