5 Great Things We Learned From ‘Superman and the Authority’

We’ve seen Grant Morrison write some pivotal Superman lore over the years that has become gospel to the mythos going forward. Despite its rather confusing and much debated place in mainstream canon (if there is any at all), Morrison’s goodbye DC Comics work, Superman and the Authority is an undeniably entertaining story that sees Big Blue assembling a team of young badasses to take world saving to the next level. In addition to kicking planet sized amounts of ass, the book tells us a few great things we probably need to know about the “Man of Tomorrow” and his vision for the world he fights for. 1. Superman is Getting Too Old for This Shit One major fascination among Superman fans has always been that of the future vision. What does it look like when the “Man of Steel” ages? For a while now, one of the more popular incarnations of this across the endless multiverse of Superman mythos would definitely be the version from Kingdom Come (yes, like the Hov album); a graying Kal-El, still as powerful as ever, coming out of retirement to save the world. Superman and the Authority immediately challenges this notion when we meet Grant Morrison’s Big Blue as a diminished version of himself, his powers a fraction of what they once were. His classic costume appears as a thing of the past, redesigned into a sleeveless, more tactical uniform. His five o’clock shadow alludes to a man not only capable of aging but also fatigue. He almost seems tired when we first see him approaching his soon…