Another Alan Moore classic...

I went old school here and grabbed a classic that was written to end an era that was blown up the Crisis on Infinite Earths. This one was written as though it was the absolute end of Superman, the absolute last, final Superman story ever to be written. Not that Superman wouldn't go on, but the Superman that we would go on with wouldn't be the one that we'd known before. This was written to wrap up every storyline, to tie up every loose end, to top everything that came before...and it did just that...

From the most conventional of superheroes - a big, strong, flying, matinee idol, white guy - we get the most unconventional of wrap ups. Nearly every major villain of his career - and some of the more minor ones - come back in an orchestrated attempt to end his story once and for all. All of the supporting characters come back to be protected by and to protect their hero. And some of the greatest writers and artists of modern comics (Alan Moore, premiere among them in my eyes) come together to send him off.

The product lives up to every bit of that hype. Emotional and strong at the same time, beautifully framed and satisfying to nearly every reader who loved this series, the story is nearly perfect. It isn't the radical rewriting of the ideas that Moore gave us in Watchmen or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, instead this is the greats working within the framework, crafting beauty from a limited pallate.