Product Description

Eisner Award-winning writer, Brian Azzarello ("100 Bullets", "Batman: Broken City") has teamed up with "Wizard" Magazine's Best Artist of 2003, Jim Lee ("Batman: Hush"), for the second part of the most hotly anticipated storyline in the Man of Steel's history. A mysterious event has struck the Earth, and millions of people have disappeared without a trace. Even Superman is affected and he's left with many questions and very few answers. As the stakes are raised, one question emerges: just how far is Superman willing to go 'For Tomorrow'? This sizzling new graphic novel also features sketchbook material and a new cover by Lee, and will leave you in no doubt as to the power of the Man of Steel.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #463968 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"An intelligent storyline and breathtaking art: mainstream comics don't get much better than this." - Dreamwatch "Azzarello succeeds in showing a deeper, human side to Superman." - Wizard"

About the Author
Brian Azzarello is one of the hottest names in comics after his work on the crime noir 100 Bullets and Batman catapulted him to the forefront of the ranks of contemporary comics writers. Jim Lee is a comics legend. After an extraordinary run drawing X-Men, he co-founded Image studios, and after creating WildStorm Productions he developed and illustrated smash-hit titles like WildC.A.T.S. and StormWatch.

Customer Reviews

Pretty pictures, pretty poor plot
If you have already read the first part of this story, you'll know to expect Jim Lee's glossy art on a story that is full of opaque conversations and difficult to swallow plot elements.

It's always hard to know where to lay the blame in collaborations but the story does not do a good job of setting up situations or characters and it is difficult to understand why anybody does anything that they do. That said, the ending is fun, with the return of a(nother) revamp of a classic Superman villain and the resolution of who is behind the Vanishing is an interesting idea, except that it seems so totally out of character.

Another problem you may have is that some of the mysteries in this story are not resolved here but elsewhere, things like who Mr Orr's employers were and why he was doing what he was doing. And it doesn't even give you an indication of where (the upcoming OMAC project trade paperback would be the place. I also suspect that at some point there will be a reveal on Mr Orr's true identity should DC put out a t/p of Infinite Crisis.

The characterisation isn't deep and the dialogue is too self-consciously clever.

That said, it can be entertaining but I wouldn't suggest you buy it if you're short of money.

A. Sengupta " GO YAKUZA"
Okay I'll be honest, this isn't exactly the best Superman story I have read, in fact it's probably one of the worst! It's such a shock of a piece of writting that comes from Brian Azzarello who has created masterworks in the form of 100 Bullets. Where or why the hell did it all go wrong?!! The story is just too complex and overly and purposely convoluted. Infact I think that's part of the problem right there. Part of me thinks Brian Azzarello didn't mean to write a complex story that had me scratching my head and turning the pages out of curiosity of wanting to know what was going on with the plot. If this is the case then it's a simple matter of bad writting. However, another part of me thinks that he did this on purpose and tried to be clever boy and throw down the gauntlet. Maybe he thought he wanted to do something very different with a Superman story, you know, take it to some new places that fan readers have never been before - yeah, and that's confusion. Either way, it was down to bad writting. Out of the two volumes, the first one is definately the best. I mean it starts so well and I'm there thinking this is gonna be good, it has the making s of a great story, and the big battle at the end is like something from an old school Japanese B movie monster film from the 70's. It was fantastic. But somewhere along the line it just got lost, and uninteresting and too caught up wihtin itself. You'll know what I mean when you read it. The only reason why I give it five stars is because, yep, you've guessed it, Jim Lee's art work. This guy is a god as far as I'm concerned. His drawingns are amazing and really add a sense of high quality to the comic book medium. They defiantely help distinguish it more as an art form that can be more widely appreciated from a wider demographic. I mean I've read lots of comics where, despite the stories, the art has let it down, like Frank Miller's Ronin for example. Jim Lee's art work helps create a spectrum where you have high quality illustration on one end of it and crap illustration on the other. And in this case, it was the sheer fun of absorbing all of his wonderful drawings that got me through this graphic novel, that made it bareable. Every page is a page turner thanks to Jim Lee, so out of respect to him I am rating this item 5 stars. I have to tell you, if you're a fan of Brian Azzarello's body of work you're gonna be disappointed. Oh by the way, on the cover of this graphic novel, under the word Superman, there is a little quote from the Library Journal that says "Taut, Gripping". Like hell it is. It made me laugh when I read that. Anyway, you and I both know that there are far better Superman graphic novels out there, so go find them, If you're die hard fan of Sups, the get this one but put it at the bottom of the pile. Thanks for reading. Adios

Great artwork, but......
Perhaps I don't fit the stereotypical reader of graphical novels (a thirty-something, profesional'ish' female), but since being introduced to it, I could happily live off a diet of Jim Lee's artwork for the rest of my life and not go hungry.

'For Tomorrow' is no exception: As usual, I find it difficult to fault Lee et al's work - these two volumes do not disappoint as far as artwork is concerned. It's all supremely lush.

Unfortunately, I just didn't understand what the hell was going on with the story line most of the time! Maybe I'm just not clever enough, but I was left floundering like a fish out of water with most of it. Good job I had something beautiful to look at.

I give both Volumes of 'For Tomorrow' 4 stars, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them for your collection, but not a good choice if you're looking to cut your teeth on graphic novels.