10 Stupid Arguments About Superman That Don't Make Sense

7. Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow? Is The Best Superman Story

Alan Moore has a track record in comic books. Not only is his superhero work phenomenally popular, well-regarded and influential, but they all tend to be of a similar type: deconstructions of the superhero genre, and of specific characters. He started off down that path with Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow? and The Last Superman Story, that were each supposed to close out the character's story before they rebooted him. That meant Moore was tasked with closing out a good fifty years of Superman comic history, before John Byrne could update him for the eighties (by giving him a mullet). Often it gets hold up as a great celebration of the classic, innocent Golden Age of Superman, but in fact it was the opposite, with Moore dismantling the character in his usual inimitable fashion. Lots of crying, murder, and so on. It's a good story, but not really a Superman story. He's not much of a murderous sobber. It's subverting everything that Superman is. In fact, the best Superman story is almost certainly Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All-Star Superman, a fun, friendly, colourful celebration of the character that revisits every classic enemy, concept, and supporting cast member as the Man of Steel realises he's dying after restarting the sun, and sets about putting his affairs in order. And fighting Luthor one last time.