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What's in a name? Everything, if you share it with the Man of Steel!
SUPERMAN: SECRET IDENTITY is a 208-page trade paperback collecting the critically lauded 4-issue miniseries written by Kurt Busiek (JLA/AVENGERS, ASTRO CITY) with art by Stuart Immonen (SUPERMAN: END OF THE CENTURY, THOR).
Set in the real world, SECRET IDENTITY examines the life of a young Kansas man with the unfortunate name of Clark Kent.All Clark wants is to be a writer, but his daily life is filled with the taunts and jibes of his peers, comparing him to that other Clark Kent — the one with super-powers. Until one day when Clark awakens to discover that he can fly...that he does in fact have super-strength! But where did these powers come from? And what's he going to do about it?
- Sales Rank: #413951 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-09
- Released on: 2013-04-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Superman's origins have been imagined and reimagined over the years. Here is a new take on the character's roots. Busiek and Immonen start with mild-mannered teen Clark Kent, who, after years of being kidded about his name, suddenly discovers that he has powers like those of his fictional namesake. He feels obligated to use his capabilities for good but realizes that, to live a normal life, he has to operate in secret, performing his superfeats covertly. His precautions prove insufficiently protective, however, and government agents investigating the existence of a real-life superhero have ominous plans for him. Busiek here uses the same trick--setting characters with fantastic powers in a "real-life" world closely resembling that of readers--that has made his Astro City a critical favorite, and Immonen greatly aids him with quietly powerful, realistic artwork. Superman has remained popular for nearly 70 years because of the appeal of having powers "far beyond those of mortal men." Busiek gives us a glimpse of what actually possessing them would probably entail, taking a cue from the contemporary superheroic slogan, "With great power comes great responsibility." Gordon Flagg
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Review
SFX Magazine Feb 2005: "...moving, smart and stirring."; The Leeds Guide 26th Jan-10th Feb 2005: " ..a fascinating story...Immonen's artwork suits the story perfectly..."
About the Author
Kurt Busiek has been writing comics professionally since three days before he graduated from college in 1982, when he sold a "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" backup story that appeared in "Green Lantern #162." Since then, he's worked on just about everything from "Action Comics" to "Zot!," including runs on "Avengers," "Superman," "Conan" and others, and has co-created "Thunderbolts," "The Autumnlands," "Arrowsmith" and more. He's best known for his work on the multiple-award-winning "Marvels" and "Astro City."
Stuart Immonen has illustrated Fantastic Four and, like Dan Jurgens, is best known for both writing and drawing the adventures of Superman.
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Really Good
By Carnifex
Busiek makes Superman a person instead of a caricature.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A New Superman for the 21st Century
By Itamar Katz
Who else but Kurt Busiek can take a character as iconic, as immortal, as familiar as Superman and turn into a literary character that is fresh, new and entirely relevant and fascinating today? After all, Kurt had long ago made it his main interest to study the different relationships so-called "super-heroes" could have with the real world and with real people, in his Astro City series and in his timeless masterpiece Marvels, and while other great authors, such as Alan Moore, Frank Miller and Grant Morrison, who toyed with these ideas in the late 80's when they were still trendy, moved on to explore new areas the graphic novel medium could be applied to, he is still fascinated with a genre that is as old as the medium itself, and keeps finding ways to make it new and fresh. It's only natural that he finally deals with the one character that started it all.
Busiek's take is original and unexpected; it's important for Superman fans to realize that the lead character in this story is not the Superman they know and love: as such, it's difficult to even consider it a `Superman story'. Secret Identity takes place not in Smallville and Metropolis, but in the real Kansas and New York City, and the protagonist is a young aspiring writer who just happens to be stuck with the unfortunate name Clark Kent. What follows may be far-fetched to say the least, but as soon as you allow yourself to accept the basic assumptions of the story - which is, after all, an important thing to do while reading any super-hero story - you'll find it a fascinating, deep and above all realistic study of character, difficult ethical questions on both global and personal levels, and the intricate philosophical problems behind the very concept of the super-hero - ones that make the phrase `with great power comes great responsibility sound truly trivial, and it's relevant to real world and to today's reality as well.
Stuart Immonen's artwork is ideal for the story, and it's the best that he'd produced yet. The artwork is highly realistic, which compliments the realistic story; but it's not the photo-realism of Alex Ross and Marvels - rather, Immonen's is a minimalist's realism, his artwork being highly stylish and subtle and giving more importance to the subtleties of a human face than to buffed-up muscles and intricate metal machines. The artwork completes the real feeling that Secret Identity succeeds in sending across, and in that manner it may be somehow stronger than Marvels - Marvels was the story of a normal person in a fantastic world, Secret Identity is the story of a real person in a real world, in a fantastic situation. And it works its way around the entirely impossible situation that it depicts to make it look entirely convincing in a low-key, quiet way. It's a remarkable achievement for Busiek, and one of the best graphic novels of recent years.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
This Clark Kent becomes Superman in the "real world"
By Lawrance Bernabo
There is another Superman movie coming out this year, but we have known for a long time from all of the comic books, television series, and movies that this is an archetypal character. Whether we are talking about one of the Elsewhere comic books where the last son of Krypton lands in another time and place or if the stories are set before Clark Kent every puts on the costume as in the WB's "Smallville," these diverse stories have stayed true to the character. There is something to be said for a character that stands for truth, justice, and the American way.
In "Superman: Secret Identity," writer Kurt Busiek and artist Stuart Immonen provide yet another variation on the theme. Busiek took his inspiration from "DC Comics Presents" #87, written by Elliot S. Maggin and pencilled by Curt Swan, which was released during DC's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" retrenchment. This was the story of the Superboy of Earth-Prime, a young Clark Kent who grew up on the DC alternate Earth that was supposed to be the "real world," which is to say that there were neither superheroes nor aliens, and everybody knew the DC heroes as comic book characters. This was the story of a Clark Kent who was picked on by classmates for having the name and also the looks of Superman's secret identity. But you do not need to have read that story to appreciate what Busiek and Immonen do in this four-part mini-series collected in this trade paperback.
We meet Clark Kent celebrating another birthday in a small town in Kansas. His dad thought it would be neat to have a famous name and his mother thinks it it fun that there are all these toys about her son, but this Clark Kent has never found any of it to be funny. Then there is the jerk at school who is always taunting him to use his super powers. Even the nerds expect him to know everything about Superman, but Clark knows next to nothing because all of the Superman comic books and toys end up in the bottom of his closet. Then one day he suddenly wakes up to discover that he has Superman's powers.
What would you do if you suddenly discovered that you could fly? The answer for this Clark Kent is to spend every spare moment flying. But then he sees someone in danger and saves their life. The good deed does not go unnoticed and Clark has to decide if he should contact the reporter who wrote the first story about the "Flying Boy" to see if there are others like him around. However, the government is trying to track him down and the most realistic part of the story for me was the idea that it would drive whoever was in Washington crazy to think there was a super being out there that they could not control. After all, we have known for quite some time that the government does not stand for truth, justice and the American way. What I liked best about "Secret Identity" is that this Superman is not stupid.
This story is told in four parts. Chapter One, "Smallville," has Clark discovering his powers and coming to a decision about whether or not to go public. Chapter Two, "Metropolis," finds Clark moving to New York City to be a writer and having his so-called friends setting him up with yet another women named Lois. But the government also gets its hands on him for the first time. Chapter Three, "Fortress," is about Clark becoming a father and taking steps to insure that the government will leave his family alove. Chapter Four, "Tomorrow," finishes the story with an aging Superman whose powers are waning wondering if this is the end of the road or if he is simply the first generation of his kind.
"Secret Identity" is a thoughtful story and Busiek uses captions to delve into what this Clark Kent is thinking. There is no explanation as to whether he is a strange visitor from another planet or a mutant, because his origin is not germane to the story line, which ultimately explores how Superman would operate in the real world. Superman saves lives. Why would anyone want to change that? The fact that he was always Clark Kent and never Kal-el in this story is very important because this time around it makes Superman the secret identity in the story. I have always maintained that in the "real world," every minute Superman spends as Clark Kent is a minute where people are getting killed that he could have saved. But Busiek and Immonen have reworked the calculus of his life so that the balance is (almost) justified. Ultimately it is not Superman who is made real in this story, but Clark Kent.
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