A review by thebeardedpoet
Adventures of Superman Vol. 1 by Dan Abnett, Jeff Parker, Andy Lanning, Rob Williams, Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt

4.0

It was a fun change of pace to pick up this book and find it is an anthology of one-shot Superman stories. Sometimes it gets wearisome in this age of huge story-arcs to keep track of everything and stick with the story until its final volume. Here we have the perfect bedside read, a few pages of iconic story and art with a finish line reached after a dozen pages or so. These were inventive takes on Superman too: POV of Ma Kent, mind-bending time travel, psychological insights into Lex Luthor, and a couple day-in-the-life of Superman tales which convey how frantic the life of a superhero can be. There's a special energy in discovering the talents of various writer/artist teams from story to story. It's as if each team reveled in the opportunity to play in the Superman sandbox.