All-Star Superman Presentation

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Presented By Landon Wright Elaine Bak Presented By: Landon Wright & Elaine Bak

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“Let's make living breathing, sprawling adventures filled with mind-blowing images of things unseen on Earth. Let's make artifacts that are not faux-games or movies but something other, something so rare and strange it might as well be a window into another universe because that's what it is.” Grant Morrison Grant Morrison - Author

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Frank Quitely - Artist Frank Quitely

Superman 2000 : 

Superman 2000 Morrison and three other comic writers (Mark Waid, Mark Millar and Tom Peyer) pitch a new take on the Man of Steel for the new century The idea is rejected. deemed too radical of a change. Superman 2000

Saying so much : 

Saying so much …with so little with so little

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"On the doomed Planet Krypton, a wise scientist placed his infant son into a spacecraft and launched him to earth…” Krypton

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Raised by a kind farmer and his wife, the boy grew up to become our Greatest protector... Superman. Superman

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But when a space mission goes wrong, Superman finds himself absorbing more solar energy than ever before. Though giving him more strength than he ever imagined, his body’s overproduction of energy is slowing killing him.

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“These are the final days of Superman…” final days

Moment-to-MomentTransitions : 

“Requires very little closure” (McCloud 70) Moment-to-MomentTransitions Moment to Moment

Action-to-ActionTransitions : 

Action to Action Action-to-ActionTransitions “Feature a single subject in action-to-action progressions”(McCloud 70)

SymbolicTransitions : 

SymbolicTransitions “Depicts something non-literal, in order to make a point about a state or mind or a situation via a visual metaphor”(Baker) Symbolic

Sound Effects : 

Sound Effects Sound Effects

Embedded Sound Effects : 

Embedded Sound Effects Sound Effects

Color : 

Color Color

Diagetic Text : 

Diagetic Text diagetic text “Texts that reside within the world created by the story that the story’s characters may read” (Baker)

The Theme of Tomorrow : 

Even when he’s faced with the possibility that the world will not survive without a Superman Faith and Hope in Humanity is at the core of All Star’s story. Superman keeps an undying, enthusiastic look at the world The Theme of Tomorrow

Christ-like Figure : 

Christ-like Figure “…it’s important to keep in mind the Superman/Christ parallels WITHOUT being obvious and heavy-handed about them. Superman has to think differently from us, and when we see into his head, we should be shocked by the clarity and simplicity of his brilliance and compassion.

Without the Christ-like : 

Without the Christ-like This is the man who will take time out from stopping Mongul’s plan to crash Alpha Centauri into our sun system just to save a drowning dog or dry the tears of a child.” (Superman 2000) This is a god sent to Earth not to suffer and die but to live and inspire and change the face of the galaxy by his deeds and reputation.

Intertextuality : 

Intertextuality Theory that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author, but of its relationship to other texts and to the structures of language itself Intertextuality

Fighting Deconstruction : 

Fighting Deconstruction Deconstruction

That’s ridiculous… : 

That’s ridiculous… But we love it… But we love it

Let’s keep this real… : 

Let’s keep this real… lets keep this real

It’s Crazy… : 

….To be crazy Old Chum It’s Crazy… Its crazy

Time Travel : 

Time Travel Time Travel

Krypto : 

Krypto Krypto

Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods : 

Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods Talking with Gods

All-Star Superman Official Trailer : 

All-Star Superman Official Trailer Official Trailer