Comrade Superman

 Superman: Red Son

By: Mark Millar and Dave Johnson

What if the Last Son of Krypton had landed in Soviet Russia?
The answer to this question makes for great storytelling.

I think i just realized the purpose of blogs. I just read this book and I wanted to talk with someone about it. But it's after midnight. All my friends are asleep. Suddenly I remember this dusty old, sadly neglected blog. Yes! I can post about this great thing I just read and satiate my hunger for a dialogue on literature for the time being. Blogs are here to help excited people quiet their minds so they can get to sleep easier.

 

While I'm on a Superman related post, here is a short list of good Superman books. These books made me appreciate a character that I had previously written off as flat and uninteresting. The staggering majority of Superman material out there had supported my young mind's suppositions. However, the authors of the following books have proven that any character, in the hands of a capable creator, can be used to tell a good super story.

All-Star Superman

By: Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

Far and away the best Superman story ever told.

Grant Morrison is a literary virtuoso.

Here he makes a good point about how folks often miss the point.

Superman: Birthright

By Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu

The best iteration of Superman's origin told so far.

Kingdom Come

By Mark Waid and Alex Ross.

A good future-of-the-DC-universe story with solid, accessible artwork.

Also, check out Alan Moore's Superman stories... because he is a magical wizard.

 Also, this.

Promethea Vol. 1

A tale about a sentient story who manifests herself in the physical world by inspiring the minds of artists and writers in each generation and subsequently inhabiting their bodies, endowing them with goddess-like superpowers?

Alan Moore, could you please try to be a little more imaginative?

Seriously. Anything Mr. Moore writes is worth looking into. The man's doubtlessly hallucinogenic fueled mind is a wellspring of penetrating premises and poetic prose.
Favorite quotes from Book One of Promethea include the following:

"It was not [her] that I loved. It was the fantasy I'd spun about her. Now that fantasy had fled, I sometimes doubt it ever truly happened, and was not instead some dream of mine. But things are ever thus with faeries and romance."

"...All war and conflict, is naught but the failure of imagination."

Always entertaining, Mr. Moore.