I always felt that having Gilbert & Sullivan-style musicals inflicted upon me as a child had ruined me on appreciating anything like them ever again, but this album tells a whole story in a very visual, direct way

This a musical like "Blood Brothers" and not like "The Pirates of Penzance" which I so hated... It makes me want to go and see musicals again if this is the sort of thing I can find these days.

Maybe when someone turns this into the musical it so clearly is I'll get the chance to go see it.

...oh yeah, and it totally rocks, too! If anyone ever thought that Green Day was 'just a bunch of no-talent punks' - like I did after owning Dookie when it first came out - then rest assured that they aren't any more. Since I've picked up their back-catalog I can see that they have come a long way since then. Grown up? How unlikely is that?

The only one that seems out of place is 'Extraordinary Girl' and that's simply because it's unlike anything else on the album and not because it's a bad song. I can listen to whole the album, front to back, any day of the week and not want to skip anything which is QUITE the feat.

Just buy it, you won't regret it....

Not the best "Elseworlds" Superman title: I have two other 'Elseworlds' titles of Superman - the mediaeval 'Kal' & 'Superman: The Dark Side' (raised by Darkseid) - and they're both FAR better than this one, even the fact that 'Kal' is MUCH shorter doesn't detract from its impact. 'The Dark Side' is definately the best story of the 3 ('Kal' doesn't have much time for a story to develop), but there's something else to it that I can't quite put my finger on.

Don't get me wrong: it's a good story & worth getting if you like Superman graphic novels, it just doesn't have the same kick as 'The Dark Side'. I think it might be that it's so focused on Superman vs Lex Luthor that the other super-heroes mentioned (Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern) get short shrift. There's also no clear 'bad guy' in it which made 'Kal' & 'TDS' enjoyable: who do you get fired up AT if there's no clear bad guy?

I gave it 3 stars because it's "good, as you'd expect" instead of "Wow! that's awesome!"