![]() ![]() If the last three panels have taught you anything, it's that Silver Age Superman was indeed as crazy as everyone says. ![]() Under a less talented team, the Christ imagery would be way too heavy handed, but in this story, it just works beautifully as a summary of Superman's compassion for everyone and his desire to help wherever he can. ![]() It's great, and the follow-up in "JLA Hitman" is every bit as good, especially as it allows Ennis and McCrea to play around a little more with Superman, Batman and the Justice League. Ennis an McCrea do an incredible (and award-winning) look at Superman that approaches reverent, but is just full of great little panels, like Superman grinning as he tells Tommy Monaghan that it's okay to swear as long as there are no ladies or children present and Tommy's assessment of Superman as "an unbelievably cool guy," all wrapped up in a story about what happens when Superman can't save everyone that deals in one issue what a lot of writers spend an entire run on. It may surprise readers who aren't familiar with the issue to learn that the single best Superman story of the '90s was not only in someone else's book, but that it was written by Garth Ennis: "Hitman" #34. ![]()
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