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That said, Supes sort of visits the Underworld beforehand in #4 with his contact with the black underverse kryptonite. Ideas?
I think this has come up before, but All-Star Superman is all about the Man of Steel going down. It starts way up there in the Sun, baby, where Superman hits the Hubris Button and faces down his own Power Source to save the day...only to fall back to Earth way more powerful but veering toward death. And, you know, "Faster" is the title of the first issue - picking up speed thanks to the whole gravity thing, you know? The depression kicks in and the need to come clean with the Girl of his Dreams - which leads us to the second issue.
Fortress of Solitude in the second issue - Antarctic palace, traditionally, bottom of the world, and Clark is dragged down to the pit of Lois Lane's rage with regard to their relationship.
Third issue? Down to the Dino-Czar's World where Clark fulfills one of his Twelve Super-Feats (actually, two) - making peace with the lizard men AND solving the unsolvable riddle. Also, mostly disconnected and a bit reaching, it does end with Lois coming back down from her super-high and falling asleep.
Fourth issue, yeah, we've got the underverse and it's horrible black kryptonite and then Clark "falls" morally and literally from the moon to hit the ground (falling right through the Daily Planet).
Number Five, descent into the underworld of the Da Vinci of Crime and then the escape hatch. Parasite gets heavy and breaks through the bottom border and into the comics page gutter.
Number Six, Pa Kent walks into death while Clark falls down into the time-tunnel into the past.
Traditionally, Superman's linked with flying, upwards - you'll note the cafuffle early on, before the series, when that first cover was released and people bitched because he wasn't in one of those fist-forward-up-up-and-away poses - but All-Star Superman is all about descent and falling. |
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