Superman For All Seasons - The Human Heart of a Hero 

"His astonishing powers allow him to express his love for the people around him unhindered by human fragility" ...what a nice way of explaining Superman!

I love the moment Clark says 'I could have done more.' That sentence sums up superman perfectly.

"Thanks! My Mom made it for me." That line always makes me smile and nails the character so perfectly and simply. When Superman is done right, it is as if the sun was created just to be there for Superman. This is my favorite Superman story ever. Great work!

There are few characters as interesting, heart warming, and inspiring as Clark Kent

What I really loved about Superman for All Seasons is how each narrator handles Superman. Those from the city cannot comprehend why someone with such power would be so compassionate and all good. Their view in part is influenced by living in a big city where such acts of kidness are rare in comparison to those from the country side, where helping others is expected because it's the right thing to do. Clark doesn't think twice to help Smallville during the storms because it's expected for everyone to help each other whether it's for small things or big things. The tight community life is something that perplexes Lois and Lex because of how fast pace and quid pro quo life can be in a city.

The Cheesy overblown superman look is one of my big faves. Always pops against the background

He’s just a big cuddly teddy bear in this mini series. 😍😍😍😍

This story was amazing it had that feel from the 1978 movie. It reminds you what Superman stands for and why you love him so much

A good friend on mine recommended this to me a while back. Been a hardcore Superman fan ever since!!

I'd love for a film to be made about this...

Consider this video a spiritual sequel to my All-Star Superman and Spider-Man: Blue videos from last year. Hope you enjoy!

Can't believe I only found this video after years of following this channel. 'Superman For All Seasons' is my favorite Superman story. Everything about it is perfect to me and it's just a book that always makes me feel good reading it. I showed the book to my mother who is in her sixties and doesn't speak English, and she couldn't put it down just admiring the beautiful artwork. You can tell this was a product of love from everyone involved in making it.

Any more reason for me to love Superman. I love him not just because of his powers and colourful costume but also because he’s a compassionate and loving man.

When compared with Batman's near mastery of almost every skill, this story is one of the reasons why I think Superman is a far more believable character :)

I wanted to thank you for this. Thank you for reminding me how beautiful this story is. I remember leaving a comment on your (I think) All-Star Superman video expressing my love and admiration for this story. I first read this comic on Christmas Day of my freshman year of college. I had a very rough first semester, feeling lost and uncertain with what I wanted to do with my life, and although I can’t say that this book single-handedly solved my problems, it certainly helped. It’s because of this special connection in addition to its focus on his humanity that I regard this comic as the best Superman story ever told, and your video highlighting the subtleties in elements like the storytelling and color palette make me all the more grateful that this story exists. Once again, I want to thank you for reminding me of the beauty that is contained within this comic.

To this day, Mr Draper, Superman For All Seasons remains one of my favorite stories...THANK YOU for giving it a spotlight. One small quibble: if you look closely enough, you can see that the story's framing narrative is actually John Byrne's Man Of Steel miniseries (As seen by how Clark talks of his mom making his costume and Lex Luthor's look and arrest). But I've always said that Superman For All Seasons is what Byrne's series should have been...and ultimately wasn't.

RIP Tim Sale😢

This is Superman,love and hope

One of the few comic books that brought me to tears. Great arc & great video!

Yeah I was definitely heartbroken with this series it really made me understand Superman in a different light that a lot of people really just look at the god side of Superman instead of looking at the man that is Clark Kent. That he may have all these Powers but he does make his mistakes and it doesn't affect them in ways that really makes him human.

Superman's relationship with planet Earth is a self-sustaining cycle. He was inspired by the best of us, and in turn, he gave back by inspiring us, and we continue inspiring him and vice versa and you get the idea. He's not perfect, he never gets it right all the time, and he's not always level-headed, but he always kept trying.

One of the greatest Superman stories ever. Great video, thanks for making this

Now when I heard about Superman, I was like “Whao this guy is really cool” but that’s not the case I love Superman I don’t see him as an alien. I see him as a human with a human heart of hope and heroism, his promise and his purpose was to protect and love the earth and it’s people, he’s one of the greatest superhero’s I’ve always loved and I will always love Superman. ❤️ when we fall back down we always get back up because we must believe in our selfs for the better. ❤️

What a great video. As generic as it may sound, I look up to Superman and see his ideals as an example to live by. I even quote him sometimes to my friends. Definitely my favourite.

Superman for all seasons is classic Superman storytelling

Matt Draper, watching these videos have really convinced me that Superman isn't some "perfect" and non relatable hero but someone we should strive to be and make us be a better person. Thanks for the videos and keep up the good work 💪

Great episode Matt, Superman was one of those heroes that I always thought needed more humanization because of the alienation created by his god-like superpowers. Great narattion, keep it up!

I love For All Seasons. I highly recommend checking out Superman: Last Son of Krypton by Geoff Johns and Richard Donner. It's a great story despite that Superman was already 10 years into his career as a superhero, and he fights a lot of his superpowered rogues.

This was so perfectly said! Incredible presentation. You genuinely brought back a memory I had as a kid about how I viewed Superman. This is literally it, and the reason He was my first favorite superhero. A lot of movies and stories lose track of this aspect of Superman. To me it's not just as important as the action, But even more important. I wanna read this story so bad now.

Heartfelt tribute video, shows how much you revere Superman.

this is what the movies should be based on. and maybe all-star superman.

One of the great dream teams in comics. Hard to believe the same team made Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory. Yet they manage to capture both Superman and Batman in stories that couldn't be more different from each other yet als couldn't be more essentially capturing the respective character.

Just discovered this channel. 100% earned a subscriber. Such great quality videos. Keep it up dude

When I read this, the colors blew me away. This book is fantastic and a work that proves Superman should be preserved as an ideal to strive toward

You absolutely killed it with this one. And yeah those water colors are just sublime.

Great video. Your point about why the origin stories end up stronger/get more acclaim is on point, and kind of obvious once one considers it. I think that ties into some of the elements of Superman both present and absent in the current Rebirth run. His marriage to Lois Lane and now his son open more avenues to show human moments. Then there are the Kents, who are sadly dead in a post-Flashpoint world so that closes off a door. Obviously it's awesome to see him flying light years through space and moving moons. But Superman also has a really strong supporting cast and a very human side which is often neglected by DC and their creators.

This is a real piece of art. A treasure.

I’ve started reading “New Frontier” after watching your video about that book. I love these videos! Think I might be picking this up soon

My personal favorite Superman story.

I’ve been waiting on this for a week

The saxophone music at the end always gets me groovin!

Holy hell, Clark is drawn huge in contrast with everyone else in this story. Reminds me of Lennie from the story _Of Mice and Men._

Also, I can't help but here John Williams' "Superman" score when I read this. The Smallville theme, the Krypton theme, the Superman main theme - combined with this beautiful story and art they create a genuinely heartfelt, emotional experience and that's why this particular comic registers so highly with me. Next to The Long Halloween, this is Loeb and Sale's greatest accomplishment. But, I also think very highly of Daredevil: Yellow and Spider-Man: Blue. :)

Soon to be the big influence for James Gunn’s newest movie Superman Legacy

Matt really well done...incredibly insightful and in tune with what makes Superman who he is

RIP Tim Sale

How your channel isn't bigger baffles me. You provide awesome insite in every video you make.

I can't be the only one who cried

Fantastic video!

You should do a video on Superman:Secret Origin(Another great Superman comic).

THIS IS WHAT SUPERMAN SHOULDVE BEEN HE SHOULDVE SAVED HIS DAD FROM THAT DAMN TORNADO

The Kents imbued Clark with his very human heart!

That was beautiful

Great Book great video nuff said

While Batman: Year One and Dark Knight Returns summarizes the overall character arch of Batman, which works does the same for Superman? I can’t think of anything better than Superman for All Seasons as the heroes start. The resolution of the character? That’s a little more dependent on the critic, isn’t it? Personally, I see Kingdom Come as the logical conclusion. Superman must deal with how to handle his values in conflict with the real world. Movies tend to reboot Superman as a young man in the modern age. I know that sells tickets. I’d be interested in how a middle aged Superman navigates a world that belongs to a younger generation. Cast Anson Mount as Superman and have him navigate a world like the boys. He’d be an interesting mix of Ted Lasso and Atticus Finch.

Great Narration Matt

One frame from this story has been the background on my phone for the last 7 years.

For me tbh, this comic, Peace on Earth and All Star, I feel those 3 like a trilogy, becuase it ends in winter, peace on earth starts in winter and ends flying to space, and all star superman starts him flying to space.

Love Sale and Hansen's art in this one (that double-page spread of the Kent farm's skyline shown from 5.49 onwards is especially beautiful...wonder if the real Kansas is like that?), and the 'My Mom made it for me' bit from 4.45 or so is about as 'Superman' a moment as you can get, flashy powers or no...any chance you could do a video based on John Byrne's 'Man of Steel' (which was the first Superman story I ever read, and which 'For All Seasons is built around) and/or Kurt Busiek's 'Secret Identity' (which is probably the best Superman story ever told as far as I'm concerned...and classic Supes technically isn't even in it...!!!), please?

The difference between Superman and Batman's identities is that Batman is who Bruce is and "Bruce Wayne, idiot billionaire playboy" is just an act whereas Clark Kent is who Superman is. He considers himself a normal person who just happens to be Superman. Like he said in one comic "Clark Kent is who I am. Superman is what I can do."

The best issues for me would be the last 2, the lex luthor one because it showed superman weakness, and the last one because its the perfect end to the story and shows the human nature of the caracther struggling to become the hero he wants to be. The first issue for me is the weakest but mostly because its hard to connect with the narrator´s perspective from the begining. Even tough I loved reading the issues, and I think it did a great job in humanizing the caracther of superman, I feel like doing it from a third person pespective altough it helps us see superman from the same perpesctive of the caracthers, it keeps a distance from us and superman in a way that it feels like we are reading an essay on the caracther. For my next comic I hope to see an equally human story on superman but told from his perspective, a story that makes us feel closer to him.

This is story is basically everything Man of Steel (the movie) wasn't: A tribute to Superman's history and also a beautiful way to introduce him to new readers.

I don't mean to be naive, but optimisticly speaking.. If everyone reads this book once or at least more times in their lives, I'm sure ppl can and will become their best selves just from the writing and nuance of Clark's character and everything around him.

Awesome video & discussion as ever Matt :) you should definitely check out Loeb & Sale's Hulk Gray and Daredevil Yellow when you get the chance.

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Great video as always Matt. I love Loeb & Sales work, might I recommend The Long Halloween or Dark Victory for the future?

5:01 **Insert T-pose joke here**

Superman: For all Seasons is much much much better than All Star Superman in my personal opinion.

Great video, Superman is one of my all time favourite superheroes, right up there with Spiderman. Would you ever consider covering 2000 AD?

Thumb Supes is the best

Loeb and Sale.....

Have you ever read “Superman: the secret years”? It’s actually really good.

His name is jeph

Love how in this Superman can save a random guy from a tornado but in Man of Steel not his adopted father

This is the CORRECT version of Superman. Not this Kill Bill vol 2 version that we keep getting where he has this elitism. This is why I'm happy Cavil will not be back. His vibe is of a bad guy, despite the look.

The outter lines drawn and the painting oozes of that if Frank Miller and Lin Varley this works but keep him humanized and that can be done all throughout his career because he is the only one of his kind which should often cause him to stray away from his calling quiet often neglecting to wear the suit and embrace the alien in him out if a distaste for being something that all man kind fears and he treats it like a germophobic male having no choice but to go out every day into the world as a Garbage man. This would also make superman more relatable. And they almost got this right I'm Batman V Superman but they for got to act or rather treat their commentary on the supposed alien from a place unknown like a threat in a sense to wear they spoke of being uncertain of his motives boldly without ever truly taking any percautions where jthe real world snitchs and up in ditches or in stiches and no one would openly wanna speak against a man who is meraculously flying leaping buildings, faster than a speaking bullet speaking of bullets , he's bullet proof. No, the natural reaction would've been terror on a mass level (think Bright Burn) because it would be like the antichrist has come. People knew too much about Superman they should have feared him with a strong EMPHASIS almost like they feared the Batman, I mean this guy is shooting red Lazer from his eye and can't be killed by .an nor his weapons. This is the Superman movie I wanna see and how emotional it effects Clark to learn that he is an outsider to which no one knows the answers of anything concerning him, where he came from or his powers. It should take h 3 movies to truly get a concerned pa Kent to admit that he held the truth from his only son in hopes to save him from himself. Like his evolution from Clark to Superman should be a slow burn focusing more on him spontaneously discovering and adapting to his powers to which should all be weaves into an even better dramatic story feeled with SUSPENSE. Not horror but SUSPENSE(fear in the slow but hyper real discovering of his powers) then the dramatical aspects of excepting that he's different and he should be scary to others without him knowing it like imagin Clark on a football feel running and jumping but because of his powers he unknowingly jumps A LITTLE beyond the length to which the any average human has ever jumped this it's very impressive yet still very much is grounded in reality leaving the idea to be believable, some what concievable, there for RELATABLE.

Is this story in the same continuity as The Long Halloween and Catwoman: When in Rome or is it just the same writers and nothing more?

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The story of Superman if he was a thumb.

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Why are the good Superman stories at both ends of his life. Beginning Superman for all seasons Man of steel End All star Superman Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow

Can't say I like the artwork

1854’s the history of holy Russia

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This is what Man of Steel should have been.

Whoa.. slow down on the bread there clark

pleasedontkillmeilovesuperman Clark looks like a giant baby