You will never get to read All-Star Superman for the first time again

kinda a variation of this. Luthor realizes how interconnected everything is that his actions are self destructive, he realizes Superman's point of view, experiencing altruism

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What don’t you get?

Robinson's Starman. Seeing it all come together is a unique feeling.

Starman was fucking BASED.
The Ending made me incredibly melancholic.

I actually wish I could read it for the first time now with my knowledge of both Silver Age and contemporary Superman.
I feel like I wasn't able to appreciate it as much back when I first read it. I didn't know what any of the references were or what the whole thing was a throwback to.

The time-loop is what gets me.
>When Jack firs meets his ghost brother he hates him while David loves him because he's had the benefit of all their future experiences
>Jack goes on to have these experiences with him for the first time and comes to love his brother
>goes to 1951 to meet David who hates, their roles reversed
>they bond
>David goes to meet the ignorant Jack after all their shared experiences
For once in my life I saw a perfect time-loop where the "I can't tell you" excuse makes perfect sense and everything was worth it in the end.
Goddammit Starman was a work of genius. Wish I had the omnibuses.

Unironically this. I keep discovering new shit about All-Star Superman every time I revisit it, not only that, but reading interviews, themes, and discussion about the book offer much much deeper insight than the surface level story.

Here's a good rule of thumb with ASS; if you don't get the thematic connection between the scenes of Earth Q, you have much to learn about the story.

this

The ending. Did supes actually die? What was the point?

I still remember the first time I read it. I picked it up at a library and hated it. Jimmy Olsen, Bizarros and the kryptonian criminals just annoyed me.
Next time I went to the library I borrowed it again though. Read it twice that time. Something just kept bugging me. Reminds me of my experiences with Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.

iirc nah, he's just fixing the sun. Remember that story "A Funeral in Smallville"? Go back and re-read that last scene with the context that Golden Superman is just normal Superman after he fixed the sun

>Jimmy Olsen, Bizarros and the kryptonian criminals
These and the romance aspect between CK/LL are pretty much agreed to be the worst aspects of the story, the ones you mentioned I think because they're more action-focused, and my example because the relationship was supposed to be iconic but wasn't explored deeply in the story.

It's literally a Christ metaphor, as dumb as that sounds.
He "sacrifices" himself to save mankind, and one day will return in that super powerful golden form to usher in a new age of humanity (which is what happens in DC One Million).
Humanity will "join him in the sun" both figuratively in that we will all one day be as selfless and kind as Superman (according to Morrison), and literally in that Superman's time in the sun is what will allow it.

All Star Superman is recommended all the time on this board as a must read first Superman comic, I have to disagree so hard. If anything its the last Superman story you should read to fully appreciate it.

I grew up reading old ass Superman issues from all different eras I got in a collection so all the references and continuity stuff clicked for me when I first read All Star.

this. it's a great book, but a terrible starting point.

Kamandi. I bought the floppies before the reprints came out. i own all the reprints (including the abandoned archive line. Oh, DC, never change).

I’m pretty color sensitive, so the new omni was like a reread.

DC has been straight up retarded when it comes to Kamandi, more or less since Kirby’s departure.

Tell me about Kamandi.

What collection?
Like a purchasable omnibus of sort or Grandpa's old comics in a box.

It's better on rereads though.

Not just Christ but the sun god. It's a reflection of the fact that almost all of these characters are just the myth of the sun god.

It seems grant really got a kick out of the fact that a kid making a bullet proof character after his father's murder was, without knowing it, creating an entire industry based around the only Protohero other than Joseph Campbell's heroes journey.

I still haven't read it. Weird, cause I love Superman. I just hate how the art looks.

It's because of the coloring imo, Quitely is a good artist

Hitman

Probably Shade the Changing Man, it's my favorite comic but I can admit the later parts are weaker than the rest.

>Are there any comics that you wish you could read for the first time again?
Oh yeah. Finding a new comic that isn't total shit and reading through all of it when you're having a bad day, that's the best.

America's Best Comics – Tom Strong
Locke & Key
Miracleman
Nikolai Dante
Sweet Tooth

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Warlock by Jim Starlin

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Top 10
Tom strong
Death in the family
League of extraordinary gentlemen vol2
Supreme
Kingdom come
Marvel's
Those comics changed me

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