Daniel (@dungeondive) talks about two graphic novels that completely changed how he sees a character he once wrote off as boring.
Astro City’s Samaritan first cracked it open: you can save anyone, but not everyone at once. Every rescue means abandonment elsewhere. All-Star Superman (Morrison/Quitely) leans into cosmic alienness—Bizarro World, dimensional chaos, universal stakes. Secret Identity (Busiek/Immonen) goes the opposite direction: a boy named Clark Kent in our world, where Superman only exists in comics, who develops powers and ages across fifty years without a single supervillain showing up.
One cosmic, one intimate. Opposite sides of the same coin. Daniel admits to getting “choked up” reading Secret Identity. The video explores why these two work so well together.
Cosmic god or ageing human—which Superman resonates with you? Maybe both?