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21:48 / 05.06.06

Pull a sickie. Then get a van. A big white van. Put Grant in the van.

03:41 / 06.06.06

>>>This isn't the movie

I don't know man... This is the closest thing to a Superman movie that I could appreciate nowadays. It's like Grant Morrison on a mainstream sensibility (like a movie). It's brand of sense of humor, action, romance and characterization feels like a nowaday's Fun (& no grit) Superman movie would feel to me (maybe I'm projecting way too much Reeve2.0 into it). Even Grant's crazy ideas (those conceptual sense of outta-this-world crystaline wonder you usually get) feels tuned down a bit, as if it was all packed up out of dialogue and translated and spread into story (more easy on those with less imagination). But I still prefer this way, I'm having a love affair with this comic (PS:I don't particularly think it's a "cinematographic" comic. I hate those -- Preacher etc -- but in this one there's a 70'sSuperFilm feel to it even though it's one of the most comicky comics around.).

I miss those Grant Interviews... Long time since we seen those...

04:38 / 13.06.06

Does anyone else feels, from time to time, that Morrison's original plans for the "S" would be nicer on a few panels or on an overall feeling of the work?

When I see those unaltered A.S.S.'s previews, it feels more "roundish" and more "primal shield" somehow, more into the feeling of the story, more toucher-friendly (not so "diamond sharped pointy tip").

Blessed be the man who one day shall photoshop one issue just to kill my curiosity...

EDIT: I could be way off though. There was a preview (one where the credits were right at the sun-splash page at #1) where the overall feeling was that Morrison was aiming at a Chris Reeve/ Donner feel.

Just being picky and pain-in-the-ass. Sorry. It's just that a designer friend of mine who's also reading this mentioned that to me.

16:44 / 14.06.06

I felt undecided about the new version of the S that Morrison & Quitely initially planned on...although the 'classic' "S" did look a bit odd in the first issue where it had clearly been redrawn by some cleanup artist at DC. I assume that from issue 2 on, Quitely's been drawing the classic S himself, from the looks of things...

20:09 / 14.06.06

Yes I got the same impression.

But I still felt that there was a reason he wanted that particular "S" in the first place. It visually seems fitted with the feeling I got from the story and it's rythim so far.

It's weird. Can't REALLY explain it. Best I got was the jibberjabber about the "roundish-feeling/ toucher-friendly/ no -pointy-sharp-spots/ oldies".

20:59 / 14.06.06

Preview for All-Supes #4. See the pretty pictures:

http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/June06previews/june21st.html

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:09 / 14.06.06

Huh. It's listed as being out on "May 17." This is their "turning the world around backwards to change the flow of time" method of publication, is it? It's not just for saving Lois Lane anymore, kids.

I'll assume this is out next week for the purposes of my sanity. Man, am I starved for some Quitely Kal and good old Olsen.

21:58 / 14.06.06

"Oh my LAND"???
Is the Clark-persona supposed to be a Gaia worshiper or is there something I don't know about the Superman mythos?

edit: Clark seems to be changing his fashion style. A green suit? I was expecting to see him in grey and brown the entire run.

(and is there something abnormal in me where in a comic book with a whole bunch of crazy-GM-science-talk the things I find most weird are "oh my land" and "gas mark 5"???)

22:11 / 14.06.06

Oh that Supes, he'll always bob for a black iron apple.

22:14 / 14.06.06

Doomsday Soldier: looks and sounds like how the Chinese military were going to use Xorn. The Man of Nobody Wins.

Director-for-a-day Jimmy wearin' his dad's technicolour dreamcoat. It's Jimmy and the Chocolate Factory with his Golden Ticket.

Flora accused of *rs*-l*ck*ng by page 6 no doubt.

00:51 / 15.06.06

"Oh my land" sounds like the sort of thing Ma Kent might say. It's similar to "Land sakes"... a way of avoiding taking the Lord's name in vain.

The other line... dunno. If I didn't know better, I'd say he was commanding a robot to turn on the gas in his apartment, as a cover.

00:54 / 15.06.06

It appears, from a quick Google, that "gas mark 5" is an old-fashioned was of describing oven temperature. It's also the name of a band in Southern England.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:58 / 15.06.06

Not that old-fashioned- we still use it and it's on the packaging for frozen meals and stuff.

00:59 / 15.06.06

yeah, 'land sakes alive' is an old-school midwestern exclamation so I figured 'oh my land' was a weird interpolation of that (or a European writer's weird version of it).

01:27 / 15.06.06

"Oh my land" = "Great Krypton!"'s secret identity.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

04:21 / 15.06.06

Wondering if all article that Perry's praising is the result of super-journalism, his brain all hopped up on solar power. Maybe Kal's beginning to show cracks in the divide between his identities - sure, Superman's dying, but Clark Kent's a whole lot less bumbling...

04:39 / 15.06.06

well, with this and x3 isn't it strange - and cool - that Morrison's ideas are slowly creeping into Hollywood's zeitgeist?

and it's ironic that he and Quitely couldn't update, even slightly, the S but then the movie did it - although in quite a retro-fashion? I mean, Pop's food chain and all that.

preview looks great, as usual. DOOMSDAY, hm... what's in that syringe, Jimmy

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

14:53 / 21.06.06

Nothing can stop The Best Day Of Comics Ever.

Whilst this is a hair less great than #3, it's still gorgeous and completely insane. I'd write more but, would you believe? There's still more comics to read?

My land.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

18:12 / 21.06.06

My land indeed. That was. Wow. Best first page ever. Jimmy Olsen misusing scientific resources. Perry White handing out praise like it was candy.

20:10 / 21.06.06

I'll have more to say later (Jimmy's apartment is easter egg central), but I do have one immediate comment.

Am I the only person who was annoyed that the scene shifted immediately after Jimmy asked what P.R.O.J.E.C.T. stood for?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:31 / 21.06.06

I love that one panel on Page 2 - the shot of the Daily Planet surrounded by Metropolis, all those zeppelins flying in between buildings. So perfect, pristine, crystalline--

02:23 / 22.06.06

What a great comic.

"The worse he acted, the weaker he became."

Bizarro-Mid-Life-Superman using expensive cars and violence as outlets for his rage against newly-discovered mortality. "No Die. Me Scared." "No can die. Am Superman..."

The Anti-Coping Effects of the Black Kryptonite. Loved it.

I was rather pleased at the P.R.O.J.E.C.T. acronym-tease, myself. It was Right. As was the stupid literary irony of Frankestein 'On Ice'.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:30 / 22.06.06

P.R.O.J.E.C.T.: If it makes you feel any better, Mario, with Jimmy's Gypsy curse, probably nobody told him what it stood for either.

The sad thing is, I actually composed a haiku about the unified field after I read this, but I can't remember what it was now. Accursed workplace, destroying my momentary poems!

I love the recurring references to the Death of Superman! First Kal Kent & The Unknown Superman as his replacement, then Lois as his replacement (and Samson & Atlas trying to be his romantic replacement), and the use of Doomsday...

Every issue sees to take place over the course of one day, which means the whole thing - if this pacing continues - will be the 12 Days of Superman.

Jimmy and his disguise kit! I wonder if there's an article in the archives of the Daily Planet on "I was a Gangster's Moll! For a Day."

Spyder Todd 2008

03:41 / 22.06.06

I think I can honestly say that I had more fun reading this issue than any other single issue of a comic in years.

Professor Silly

05:18 / 22.06.06

Upon opening this issue, I flipped through looking for big splashy money-shot pages, but was disappointed I didn't see any.

...then I read the sucker.

The art works perfectly for the story, and while this issue certainly seems more subtle in many ways, the writing is spot on. I loved the use of balloon color changes to show changes in personality!

But my favorite part of it is the cover. The use of word balloons to sum up the contents is sooo silver-age! It's shiny and colorful and fills me up with joy just looking at it!

14:59 / 22.06.06

Too lovely.
This is a story that's reminding me why titanic monsters like Horusian-Godzilla, and those son-of-land-saviour-2-prove-we-done-well were popular back then.

This was sort of The Feat of Strenght by Jim. He didn't make titans kneel to Lucy or dinner at the crucifixion though. He sort of offered the moon.

I also felt that their fight was a "What Really Happened in the Event Mistakenly Called as 'Death of Superman of the 90ies'". The fan holding him anguished that he (thought he) had to see Superman in that corrupt version of himself on death-fear-horror ("Apocalyptic Tragedy as a way to implicate it's own faraway opposite just so we begin to vaguely remember Superman's grandeour") and as if his death was a doom's day or something (sort of "haven't we learned nothing from him? There's always a way. Chin up.").

And my God, I'm going to need to buy extra copies of these issues. Everytime I fear I might lose control and start licking the pretty colors and exquisite pencils.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:22 / 22.06.06

Put the book down. This book is not candy for the tongue, this book is candy for the eye. The incandescent colours can be misleading. All is well. All is well.

I love that this issue had the diguise kit (after a fashion), one more strange Olsen transformation, P.R.O.J.E.C.T., Lucy Lane, and a new kind of kryptonite. All those old Jimmy stories shoved in a super-machine and compressed down to an infinite point...

15:43 / 22.06.06

With a SuperGravitationalPull as writer's method.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

16:58 / 22.06.06

Quitely draws beautiful liquids. The panel with Kal trying to pull the mystery material out of the Underverse, grunting, lit up from below by the squirking, pink underversal fluid? All the globules and such? Lovely.

What's Superman's super-challenge this time? Mining the Underverse? I can't wait for him to create life.

Jimmy Olsen mainlines the Nineties to stop a corrupted Superman gone mad...

Trying to figure out what myth this would be. Elements of The Prince and the Pauper, maybe. Actually, I suppose it could be Hercules being driven mad by Hera and killing his family (especially when symbolized by the Daily Planet globe going smashy), only GM flips it and Jimmy saves the day by turning into a Chimera - Nemean Lion, maybe? The Monster saves the day.

17:17 / 22.06.06

i am right there with you guys about this one. more praise is superfluous at this point. so here's a couple questions..

a. where did that little superman symbol on the table come from? i didn't see any heat vision, or superprecise mircropressure, did i?

b. why is olsen's watch making it's awesome zee-zee-zee noise as he beats superman? he doesn't seem to activate it.

c. how does a comic book make the sun shine brighter?

17:33 / 22.06.06

I thought Jimmy set a timer on the watch so that the Zee Zee Zee would bring him back from the Doomsday brink. Like he said, he'd thought of everything.

With every issue, I'm amazed at how thoroughly this comic punches the happy buttons in my brain. I don't think there's ever been one that's been this consistently wonderful.

17:33 / 22.06.06

I thiiink PROJECT activated the signal-watch to restore Jimmy?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

17:35 / 22.06.06

a. where did that little superman symbol on the table come from? i didn't see any heat vision, or superprecise mircropressure, did i?

They've been slightly inconsistent with how they portray the heat vision, so I think it was his super-hot eyes doing it.

b. why is olsen's watch making it's awesome zee-zee-zee noise as he beats superman? he doesn't seem to activate it.

It may have been knocked during the battle and activated, or Agatha did it remotely - they must have the technology to co-opt a signal watch - to try and bring him back to the present, given he wasn't implanted with a hypnotic trigger to turn him back. The signal watch is such a big part of his life.

c. how does a comic book make the sun shine brighter?

Love?

18:58 / 22.06.06

I'm with Jimmi setting a 29 second timer. I doubt P.R.O.J.E.C.T. would be able to hack a Superman made product.

Black Kryptonite, a New Kryptonite gets around the question of multi-colored Kyrptonite vs. simply Kyrptonite continuity.

Someone dies and Superman almost goes faint.

Each page felt as though it could run individually as a weekly comic strip.

must read it again.

23:13 / 22.06.06

>>>>Someone dies and Superman almost goes faint.

Yeah was thinking about that. Supes might be headin' for a know-how in surfing that unified field. Had thought of that since I read "Oh my land!" in those previews. Or more probably, having his new powers grant him new perceptions to a outrageous level (one I was hoping I could find in A.S.S. but wasn't really expecting it). Just really hoping he'll become type-Grant uberSolarGodHCE by the end somehow, even if that means him becoming Clark-Only.

Going waaay back to #1 -- and sorry if I'm slow -- is Luthor's tampering with the sun achieved by the bigbadabum! of the DeathRockBenGrimm (there's a certain tone in those moments; and Lex doesn't show up for 3 issues, maybe because all this is already his plan and this would be a "Lex exposition" enough)? And is Solaris (the overwhelming, burning tyrant 'dark side of the' Sun) working that way through out the plot? As he kills our God-saviour and drys our LifeWaterSuply? (I'm not very familiarised with Superman mythos and characters)

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