Regular readers and podcast listeners will know that I am not huge fan of the Blue Boy Scout. So while I was intrigued by the premise of this book, I was also bringing a healthy dose of "yuck" to my reading. Boy, was I wrong.
Steven T. Seagle has done an amazing thing. He has written a graphic novel about Superman, without having Superman as the main character. Instead this work is a deeply personal one about the main character, Steven (most likely our author) has been offered one of the most coveted gigs in comics; writing Superman. The catch is, he doesn’t want it. In Steven’s mind, Superman is a facist, a bully and completely uninteresting. Tangled up in this is the revelation that Steven’s father has gone missing and a family secret: Steven may or may not carry the Huntington gene, the disease that killed his grandmother.
This is a brilliant book, exploring the fear of the future, while at the same time deconstructing the icon that is Superman. This is a book that should be given to all those people out there that think that comics are not serious literature.