Superman/Batman VOL 03: Absolute Power - Softcover

Loeb, Jeph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401207146 ISBN 13: 9781401207144

Publisher: DC Comics, 2006

Synopsis

Three super-beings change the course of time by killing the Kents and raising Superman, and killing the man who killed Bruce Wayne's parents, creating a world in which Superman and Batman rule with an iron fist.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeph Loeb is an Emmy Award-nominated and Eisner Award-winning writer/producer living in Los Angeles. In television, his many credits include Smallville, Lost, and Heroes, and in film, Teen Wolf and Commando. In comics, he is best known for his work with the supremely talented artist and partner-in-crime Tim Sale on Batman: The Long Halloween, Superman for All Seasons, and Catwoman: When in Rome for DC as well as Daredevil Yellow, Spider-Man Blue, and Hulk Gray for Marvel.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 10 Up–When baby Superman's spaceship crashes into a Kansas field, three superbeings kill the Kents and take him for their own. Later, Bruce Wayne's parents, walking along Broadway, are shot right before the hood gets riddled with bullets himself. With the superbeings intervening at the so-called origin moments of both heroes, they then raise them to rule Earth. This scenario is carried to its logical limits, if its logical limits include random time-travel and the grown Bruce Wayne murdering his parents' murderers before they can perform their fated crime. Superman, given a similar chance, does not save the Kents. Obey or Die reads the inscription on the gigantic statue of Superman and Batman that replaces the Statue of Liberty, and do they ever enforce it. In the end chapters, though, they wake from their evil reverie, realize they've been raised by monsters, and repent by setting time right and canceling all other alternate worlds except the original one, in which they are beacons of good. It's a touching ending, but dystopian stories always seem more forgettable than classic morality tales.–John Leighton, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: DC Comics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1401207146
• ISBN 13: 9781401207144
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128