Man, in this instance, has become superman indeed. The antidote? Lombard's, ahem, "performance enhancing" pills. Morrison's funniest but most pointed example is when the Daily Planet's Steve Lombard is able to withstand a mutating Bizarro attack as well as Superman. Humanity itself has caught up with Superman - Professor Quintum's experiments are now so advanced that one of them results in Superman himself being mortally wounded. At the outset of the book, Grant Morrison has Lois Lane and Lex Luthor each considering how they're growing older, while the always-youthful (and somewhat oblivious) Superman still plans corny gags for Lois's birthday. Morrison presents all of this within the tropes of Silver Age wackiness, and the collection that emerges is a feat of storytelling if not necessarily a model for Superman stories to come.įor a book that serves as a love letter to the Superman mythos, All-Star Superman is largely a story about how mankind must inevitably outgrow Superman. A particular scientist, Leo Quintum, tries to take fire from the sun (veritably the Prometheus of the story taking flame from Olympus), setting in motion the fall of the old god, Superman, and the rise of the new. Superman is dying, and so begins man's heroic age, as chronicled in Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman.
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