Comments on: Tell All Star Superman #1-11 in Eleven Panels!

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:55:30 +0000

@Annoyed Grunt
Yup!
Summed it up nicely, don’t it?

By: Annoyed Grunt

Annoyed Grunt — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:25:28 +0000

As someone who’s never read the book or even paid much attention to what’s being said online, the story I get from that is both Superman and Lex are dying. In his final days/months Clark wants closure on his life while Lex wants revenge. Along the way there are fisticuffs with villains.

I’m sure there’s a lot more to it, but that makes a pretty good trailer. I’d buy the trade after reading that.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:22:31 +0000

Yeah, Quintum was the only character that I couldn’t fit in. I tried to make sure all of the other secondary characters showed up.

By: Thomas C (Cap'n Yesterday)

Thomas C (Cap'n Yesterday) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:39:54 +0000

I like his choice for #7, it sums up All Star Superman perfectly.

I’m not certain this would tell a new reader everything they need to know, especially since Leo Quintum doesn’t appear. If Quintum is just a red herring, then this works perfectly.

This kind of thing should replace recap pages.

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:45:01 +0000

Man, warn a fella before you send him over to blog with that title, will ya?

Neat experiment, though. Worked pretty well.

I triple dog dare someone to try it with ALL-STAR BATMAN & ROBIN.

By: Paperghost

Paperghost — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:27:02 +0000

I can’t wait to see how he tackles Lex stealing 40 cakes in issue 12.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:55:42 +0000

I haven’t read a single issue of this title, and still this does a pretty good job as a “Previously on ASS…” Great work, Sandy. It’ll be cool to see some others.

By: Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:43:53 +0000

Probably a benefit of Morrison’s full-throttle embrace of the single-issue story in All-Star Superman: the greater story creeps in there in important individual panels, often when you’d least expect them. Cut and paste them, and there’s your narrative thread.

I love watching the recaps for a show like 24, which not only tells you what’s happened in the episode right before this, but also bring sup any old storylines from episodes (or entire seaons’ past) so viewers aren’t as in left-field when an old storyline comes back. Often you cna predict the whole episode just bys eeing what’s in the “previously on 24.”

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:32:03 +0000

I don’t know what’s more impressive:
That you managed to find a panel in each issue that summed everything up;
Or, that Morrison and Quitely structured and wrote the comic so well that you were able to do so!

Kudos to you all!

By: Matt Algren

Matt Algren — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:22:50 +0000

That’s amazingly effective. Maybe I wouldn’t get it if I hadn’t read the issues first, but at the very least it’s a good recap before the 12th issue comes out.

Well done, Sandy!

(I’m not sure how well this would work with stories from less skilled storytellers, though.)

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:03:10 +0000

dhole – I just posted a note on my blog about that – I plan on making a series of posts like this one, and I’ll put the next up early next week. Thanks for the compliment!

By: dhole

dhole — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:48:52 +0000

I’ve only read a couple of issues of this series, but this made me want to read more (particularly panel no. 11). So I think it works very well.

So when can we see similar “trailers” for Watchmen? Squadron Supreme? Secret Wars?

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:40:59 +0000

Thanks for the shoutout, Brian!

By: Derek Rogers

Derek Rogers — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:21:27 +0000

Awesome. If anything, this is like the trailer to All-Star Superman!

By: Jean Yates

Jean Yates — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:06:21 +0000

I went, I saw, and … it was great! Thanks for pointing it out.

By: matthew.

matthew. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:48:48 +0000

Seems the experiment is sort of a success. It tells a disjointed story, but a story nonetheless.