dark_noldor's All Star Superman #5 - The Gospel According to Lex Luthor review

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    "There's no deep psychology behind the struggle between Superman and me. It's all very simple" - with this statement it's clear to presume that Morrison only focused the relationship between Superman and Lex Luthor as rivals or Superman being the sole reason of why Lex couldn't achieve his greatest goal, world's domination (Lex's words), but I dare say that there's indeed a deep psychology between these two faces of the same coin, it's not all that simple as Morrison leads us to believe, in fact, like Clark bluntly puts it "Lex and Superman could have been friends" - Anyway, all the deep thinking behind it, from a comic book reader that don't like Superman, this was a fantastic read, with a dense and humorous structure, showing a clumsy Clark Kent who's trying to interview a megalomaniac Lex Luthor who thinks has control of everything and everyone, only if he dreamt he had been talking to Superman all this time, it's so ironic - that's the merit of Grant Morrison, shaping a very interesting and creative story from common and familiar backgrounds, but the thing is that the writer really captured the characters' core and essence, making the story flow very graciously and with the right amount of cynicism, comedy, drama and vendetta, lots of great elements, it really pays off to watch hilarious scenes in which Lex and Clark are interacting in a federal prision about to burst in a riot - add to that (amazing narrative and dialogues) the fact that this is, undoubtebly, one of the best works of Frank Quitely and you have a perfect issue, self contained, yet linking facts (important ones) from the last 4 issues and presenting us the Morrison's Lex Luthor, definitely a villain worthy reading and apreciating!

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      This issue is a little different. Instead of being a Silver Age type story, instead it's just an addition to the main plot.  Clark's interview with Lex that we were told about earlier finally goes underway. We get see alot of how Luthor's mind works and how he treats his death sentence for multiple crimes agains humanity. It really shows off Luthor's personality. And shows his reasoning for hating Superman so much. Not everything's quiet and easy, though. The Parasite breaks from his binds and i...

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