This is the greatest first issue of Superman that I have ever read. It is also the first first issue of Superman that I have ever read. That aside, I have to say that I have probably read a dozen origin stories of ol’ Supes – and that is exactly what I was expecting here – a book I really didn’t need to read – a book I could avoid while waiting for the second issue.

I was wrong. And, what is shameful is that I should have known. This is, after all, the work of Grant Morrison, the venerable author or the currently running Seven Soldiers series. This book defied my expectations.

The origin was two pages long. The rest was the opposite: it was the beginning of the end. You have to read it. Frank Quietly’s art is excellent, and the colors, by Jamie Grant, are perhaps the books greatest artistic feature.

No one should pass up Grant Morrison. No matter how tired you think a story is going to be, he will shock you – not by telling it better, but by telling a story wholly and completely different.

-Peblee