Making and Breaking the Superhero Quotidian: How All-Star Superman Embodies and Revises the Everyday
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Publication Title
ImageTexT
Volume
8
Issue
2
Abstract
This essay explores the idea of the everyday in All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Scholars identify the everyday, or the quotidian, as including routine behaviors and ingrained assumptions (e.g., Borland and Sutton), and the construct of the quotidian as culture has been explored in comics (Bramlett). Depending on circumstances, characters may navigate the Metropolis cityscape or the Kent farm, take trips to the moon, explore the Daily Planet office building, and meet otherworldly heroes and villains. Even though much of the world of the superhero is extraordinary and wondrous to readers, the characters themselves nevertheless have a day-to-day lived experience that qualifies as their own quotidian. This essay demonstrates how Morrison and Quitely use the extraordinary, the remarkable, and the unexpected to highlight yet ultimately overturn the story of Superman's day-to-day practices and expectations.
Recommended Citation
Bramlett, Frank, "Making and Breaking the Superhero Quotidian: How All-Star Superman Embodies and Revises the Everyday" (2015). English Faculty Publications. 3.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/englishfacpub/3
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