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By: Cole Moore Odell

Cole Moore Odell — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:03:09 +0000

Yeah, I was in the mix on the Luthor/Quintum idea, and I ended up pulling together a bunch of obscure and probably dubious evidence to support the idea, but once again I have to give props to David U. on that one–he got there ahead of me. Most of what I said in that JOG thread is in this post (and the attached comments):

http://mountainofjudgment.blogspot.com/2008/09/all-star-superman-xs-and-os.html

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By: Douglas

Douglas — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:06:55 +0000

I believe where I first saw the Quintum theory was Cole Moore Odell’s comment on Jog’s review of the final issue here at SavCrit (the comments don’t appear to be there any more).

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By: What are you reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:46:33 +0000

[...] All-Star Superman, by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely: Morrisonia quite aside, this is just a magnificently pleasurable superhero comic to read. This was the first time I'd done so all in one go as opposed to its serialized installments, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. [...]

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By: smitty

smitty — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:13:44 +0000

Heel Turn! Yeah, digging through the Johns boards on ASS is pretty interesting as people were posting and following the series in real time.

http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58846

But again, and this thread may be a little unfairly tilted towards my view, you can see how the tweaks and re-tweaks to the theory he initially puts out start to become more and more tenuous.

I like / lurve this kind of thing – just in this case I don’t feel the connection like I did with some of the other nods and winks.

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By: David Uzumeri

David Uzumeri — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:56:27 +0000

I’m sure I was inspired by a few ideas thrown around, but it MIGHT have come from me:
http://funnybookbabylon.com/2008/09/17/requiem-for-a-sun-god-looking-back-on-all-star-superman/

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By: Jake W

Jake W — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:02:15 +0000

“We fall prey to the same thing that Supes has for all these years – we WANT Luthor to redeem himself so we create and forge these connections for ourselves taking threads and snippets of dialogue and turning them into “second shooter” level conspiracy theories.”

But before the series was over, I remembered a lot of people were expecting Quintum to do a heel turn.

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By: Marc-Oliver Frisch

Marc-Oliver Frisch — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:55:44 +0000

This book was bubbling in Morrison’s brain for ten years. It’s his love poem to everything that makes Superman Superman, a trimmed-down, supercondensed poetic complex of story and meaning.

I’m pretty confident there’s not an ounce of creative fat in this book that’s not deliberate.

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