Superman – Action Comics, Volume 3: At the End of Days

I find Morrison's superhero stuff is always kind of an odd duck - he gets tonnes of credit for how “crazy” and “original” his ideas are, but what he really does is take old ideas, dust then off, and give them a psychedelic coat of paint. The result is still good stuff - not only here, but in his X-Men, for example - but I usually end up finding his superhero work lacklustre compared to the rest of his material.

The problem with that here is that the ideas he's dusting off are all fairly silly - I've never been a fan of 5th dimensional imps, or Krypto, or the Superman Revenge Squad - and while he makes them tolerable, they're still not ideas I can get excited about.

To be honest the stuff that I found most emotionally rewarding were the Sholly Fisch short stories included at the end of the book. Neil Degrasse Tyson training telescopes on the light from Rao at the exact moment Krypton exploded was a fantastic moment.