Just watched this. I was expecting it to be nothing like the comic but its a very faithful adaptation, managing to cram most of the story into just over an hour and it really captures the magic of the series, something I'd have thought impossible before I saw it. Its certainly the best Superman cartoon I've ever seen and Irt would be great if they make a live action versus some time.

Yep, really wanna see this, not yet read the comic, but this animated movie is supposed to be a good 'un!

It's a pretty good adaptation of a wildly overrated comic. The movie leaves out the worst parts, but the very "episodic" nature of the comic makes for a very strange flow for a movie, it has to be said.

Another problem is that nobody seems to write Superman as a likable or charismatic character anymore. It feels like too many writers have gotten too wrapped up in the demi-god/Jesus characterisation. It's just a bit boring, and James Denton's uninspired voice acting didn't exactly help.

All in all, good, but nothing special.

Had a watch of this a few weeks back. I agree with the others, it is a pretty faithful adaptation of a decent but not amazing story. It's not quite up there with GL First Flight or Superman Doomsday, or even New Frontier or WW, but it's definitely worth a watch.


I think JMS had been hoping to fix that with the on-going Grounded arc, but sadly it's just a boring mess! I believe he's no longer working on it, though, and is now doing a follow up to Superman Earth One, so perhaps there's hope! I haven't actually read Superman Earth One, so I don't know if that does a good job of humanising Supes. (Obviously I'm aware that it's an alternate Earth Supes, but all the same...)

Grounded was all kinds of awful. Earth One felt like Birthright with slightly better art, and it still failed to deliver a likable Superman. It's about 130 pages worth of surly, moping Emo-Man, before he even cracks his first smile... or at least I think that's what that was meant to be. Either way, there's plenty of the now obligatory angry-red-eyes-Superman to keep the fanboys happy, but I didn't much care for it. Most Superman stories these days read like an early 90s Image comic.