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Superman: For Tomorrow, Volume 1 is great! This Superman story is written by Brian Azarello and is drawn by master illustrator, Jim Lee! This DC book collects Superman issues #204 to 209! This book is great because the artwork is superb! Jim Lee is at his best in this series! Jim Lee draws a very dark tale that involves the Man of Steel, Superman! I like the artwork in these issues! I highly Recommended it! A+
Rating:  -
This is a good story, a little dark but deeper than the ussual storys that the superman fan's are used to.
Too bad that it has a lot of talk and a little action.
Rating: -
This might sound hypocritical after reading my review for (the much more light-hearted) Showcase Presents: Superman, but I thought For Tomorrow was awesome. I liked it better than Broken City, and I loved Broken City.
Was it too cynical? I didn't think Superman was too dark and mopey. He did something that he thought would benefit people and it wound up biting him in the ass. Hasn't there always been Superman stories like that? Isn't that how (pre-crisis) Lex lost his hair for cying out loud? I thought the story did a great job of exploring his role on Earth as a savior, an alien, a man, and a husband. Sure there's some self doubt, but the story is epic enough and fascinating enough and entertaining enough that the doubt doesn't bring the story down at all.
And I definetly didn't think that Superman acted anything like some cocky jerk from 100 Bullets.
Great action, great art, cool villains, really neat idea for a story, as well as FANTASTIC dialogue (albeit the kind of dialogue that has never really been used in a Superman book before, and might throw some readers off). Why is it getting such bad reviews everywhere?
Rating:  -
This book moved so slow, Azzarelloo is not a super hero comic book writer, he writes non caped people much better, this was half of the 12 issue arc, the arc is about people vanishing from earth, including lois lane.
no one knows where they went, and superman has gornw less human because of this event, wenever even see him as clark kent in the book, he floats around, talks with a preacher whos story does not work out in the next chapter and felt very badly written, so the set up here is never paid off.
some may like the less human superman, but here he's like a god who floats around, gets upset at his friends, we never get into his head like we should.
the plot is confusing and does not get less so in the second half that you will have to buy, and not confusing in a wtchmen manner, not the well written story that is fun to get confused by and then work at figuring it out, i believe the writer thinks he is telling a deeper story than he ended up telling.
Jimlee on art, well is standard work but he never gets to shine, so many panels have superman floating, and lee does his best by using shadows and angles to make it a fun visual, but Lee is really better on action titles, and his darker mood worked better on batman.
so it's best to avoid this book, there are too many other superman books out there.
Rating:  -
First, I'd like to say I'm a Superman fan. This is not a Superman I recognize. The Man of Steel gets involved in a war? Huh? The only war he's ever gotten involved in was WWII and that doesn't count because it's pre-crisis. (And it was pretty much insisted upon by the War Dept.) Then it takes this bizarre turn into some kind of pocket universe and Clark Kent only wants to be known as Kal-El or Superman! I thought we decided twenty years ago that Clark Kent is who this man is and Superman is the mask he puts on so that he doesn't have to worry about his family and friends.
I was unfortunate enough to read this story month-by-month and it definitely didn't shine reading it that way. I gave this book its second star because I think reading it all at once it might be a fairly good story and might make a little sense. A lot of the new characters like Fr. Leone are interesting even if it's not clear why they are important for quite awhile in the story. The last complaint I have is it should have had an Elseworlds sticker on it because otherwise I'm not sure how this fits in with any other Superman comics I've read recently (or maybe ever).
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