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Superman: Red Son
by Mark Millar
A wonderfully executed 'What if...?' take on Superman, that isn't the USA good/USSR bad cliché that it could so easily have defaulted to.
It's not about super-powered battles either; the action takes a back seat and is often glossed over to simply look at what might happen if someone with limitless abilities and political power tries to do what he thinks is best for everyone - even if they disagree. It's all an entirely plausible and logical answer to that 'what if' question.
The alternate Luthor, Lois, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern are entirely consistent with this world. So much so, that they're truly intriguing and deserve volumes of their own to allow us all a deeper insight.
The ending is truly inventive, essentially rewriting the origin story in a mind-bending way, but it also hits those three key words again - plausible, logical, consistent. However, by far the biggest twist is when you finish and you're left to wonder 'what if that ending/origin applied to the 'normal' Superman universe?'
It's not about super-powered battles either; the action takes a back seat and is often glossed over to simply look at what might happen if someone with limitless abilities and political power tries to do what he thinks is best for everyone - even if they disagree. It's all an entirely plausible and logical answer to that 'what if' question.
The alternate Luthor, Lois, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern are entirely consistent with this world. So much so, that they're truly intriguing and deserve volumes of their own to allow us all a deeper insight.
The ending is truly inventive, essentially rewriting the origin story in a mind-bending way, but it also hits those three key words again - plausible, logical, consistent. However, by far the biggest twist is when you finish and you're left to wonder 'what if that ending/origin applied to the 'normal' Superman universe?'