Superman and the Authority

[manwhohaseverything]

2nd printing has been ordered

Such a dying title...

2nd printing only means their expectations have been met.It doesn't mean best sales.None of these books have good sales.I just thought with Morrison's and all star superman reputation would have made this book sell beyond the market expectations..

[The Frog Bros]

DC One Million Omnibus on the cheap. Before they fix the glitch, that is

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/amaz...omnibus-at-25/

[Robanker]

Some background on the team members from this weeks’ issues:

Midnighter more upright and moral than Superman. Okay, Grant. *Rolls eyes.

I guess Grant's love of Batgod extends to his knockoffs as well.

[Quinlan58]

Midnighter more upright and moral than Superman. Okay, Grant. *Rolls eyes.

I guess Grant's love of Batgod extends to his knockoffs as well.

I'm guessing we'll have some of those archetypical "the anti-hero is the only one willing to remain loyal to their ethical code" moments to justify that.

[D.Z]

Limkted series anyway. Probably will do better as TPB sales over time.

[ZeroBG82]

Midnighter more upright and moral than Superman. Okay, Grant. *Rolls eyes.

I guess Grant's love of Batgod extends to his knockoffs as well.

Alternatively, there is an implied "other than Superman" there. I think we're drawing a distinction between Superman and the team, that is The Authority.

[Vordan]

Alternatively, there is an implied "other than Superman" there. I think we're drawing a distinction between Superman and the team, that is The Authority.

That’s how I took it as well.

[manwhohaseverything]

Midnighter more upright and moral than Superman. Okay, Grant. *Rolls eyes.

I guess Grant's love of Batgod extends to his knockoffs as well.

Well,far better than cheerleading how great superman's morality is.I don't care if it is.Morrison is nice to spare me of that and bit funny.Heck!i would have done this.

[Robotman]

I completely trust Grant with Superman but I'm just not that thrilled by the team lineup. Besides Manchester, Apollo, and Midnighter, the others seem kind of "meh". The designs for the new Lightray and OMAC are pretty boring. I would have like to have gotten a more traditional Kirby-like OMAC. Natasha makes sense but I definitely prefer John Henry. Also, there are so many more interest characters than Enchantress. This book was apparently written in 2018, around the time Enchantress was still getting the Suicide Squad push. So maybe that influenced him putting her on the team.

Wish they would have swapped out one of these characters for a classic Authority member.

[Ascended]

What's the bare minimum? Keeping the world safe?

Depending on how you look at it? Yes.

Some people are happy with a Superman who has a vaguely Star Trek "prime directive" approach; he protects, but doesn't interfere. Clark ensures humanity doesn't die before its time, but we chart our own course.

Some people, on the other hand, prefer a Superman who actively engages in the social/cultural conversation. Who isn't afraid to voice his opinion or do the work with his own two hands. And for these folk, yeah I think Clark keeping the world intact is the bare minimum. The earth still exists, which is great and obviously better than the alternative, but is *life* better? It's the difference between being alive and living.

[Bruce Wayne]

Wish they would have swapped out one of these characters for a classic Authority member.

The entire point of what Morrison is doing is trying to do Authority with DC Characters as analogues (minus Apollo/Midnighter) like how his Seven Soldiers was originally Avengers with DC Characters. The entire cast was created or chosen specifically because the characters can act as analogues to the original cast from Authority (Black=Jenny Sparks, Natasha Irons=Engineer, Enchantress=Doctor). Midnighter/Apollo's inclusion is arguably because they have "become" part of DC since Flashpoint in a way that the other Authority characters haven't.

[exile001]

Some people, on the other hand, prefer a Superman who actively engages in the social/cultural conversation. Who isn't afraid to voice his opinion or do the work with his own two hands. And for these folk, yeah I think Clark keeping the world intact is the bare minimum. The earth still exists, which is great and obviously better than the alternative, but is *life* better? It's the difference between being alive and living.

Actively striving to make the world better should be a prerequisite for a crusading reporter, let alone one who is also Earth's mightiest champion.

The idea that Superman's bare minimum is to protect the American status quo is why Miller used him as he did in TDKR and a reason, rightly or wrongly, people are turned off from the character today.

[Hypo]

Superman and the Authority #2 Preview
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artists: Mikel Janin, Travel Foreman, Evan Cagle and Fico Ossio

[Hypo]

Kind of bummed that there's so many artists on issue #2 for a series that Grant supposedly wrote like 2 years ago.

[Quinlan58]

Well, that preview was... short.