Absolute Superman is one of DC’s best ongoing books right now, and it’s super easy to see why. The series follows Superman as he is chased across the Earth by enemies and potential allies alike, almost all of them wanting to use Superman to further their own goals, while he is just looking for a place to belong and a way to help people. The new origin has massively reinvented the character of the Man of Steel, but despite how radically different his circumstances and background are from his main universe version, he’s never acted more like himself.
Superman has changed a lot as a character over the years, evolving with the world around him, and yet somehow Absolute Superman manages to roll each and every version of him from across the decades into one beautiful package.Superman’s Changed a LotWhen Superman was first introduced, he wasn’t fighting living blackholes or pulling planets away from dying stars. Instead, he fought injustices that existed in the real world.
Superman’s first ever story saw him solving a murder to save a woman who was wrongfully accused, and dropping the real perpetrator outside the governor’s house with a signed confession. His first ever epithet was Champion of the Oppressed, and he fought for the rights and safety of the disenfranchised everywhere. Of course, as he defined what the superhero genre was he also got into more classic adventures, like dealing with mad scientists and alien bugs.
By the time Superman became popular countrywid.