Zack Snyder is rebooting Superman’s origin story for the mallrats, with The Dark Knight’s tech-noir maestro Christopher Nolan as co-producer. The animated feature adaptation of Grant Morrison’s sublime All-Star Superman touches down next winter.

For its part, Straczynski’s excellent comic, out Wednesday and exclusively previewed in the gallery above, is delivered mostly in flashback from an outsider teenager’s perspective. Wired.com’s earlier glimpse at Superman: Earth One revealed the lonely Clark Kent lost in Metropolis as a noob on the hunt for connection and purpose. The new pages explain the origins of Superman’s name and his resilient supersuit, and provide an early glimpse of the alien invasion that reduces Metropolis to rubble.

What you don’t see is the compelling interstellar villain Straczynski created to challenge Superman’s coming-out party, or the new reason for Krypton’s annihilation. Also not shown above is how Superman meets his new friends, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, or how he ends up at The Daily Planet, when he has the power to do pretty much anything he wants in life. Or why The Daily Planet still is in print at all, although there is some grumbling from publisher Perry White about how the newspaper is under siege from the internet.

From its poignant domestic moments, delivered in mostly warm, fuzzy flashbacks, to its blockbuster battles, Straczynski’s Superman: Earth One renders like a feature film just waiting for adaptation. Which is logical: Prolific writer Straczynski is a film and television vet who’s penned programs like Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, as well as features like Changeling and Ninja Assassin.

While we have seen much of Superman: Earth One’s origin story before, give or take a few self-absorbed mope sessions from Earth’s greatest alien superhero of all time, Straczynski’s tale should satisfy longtime Superman fans as well as late adopters. It’s both recognizable and refreshed, carrying over some traditional narrative points — and even nodding in the direction of Superman’s first cover — while creating some new ones wholly out of supercloth. (Clark was bullied as a kid? Sure, why not.)

Images courtesy DC Comics

See Also:

• Earth One Reboots Superman’s Roots for the iGeneration
• Comics Legend Grant Morrison Talks Superman, Bizarro
• For Trippier Comics Flicks, Hollywood Needs to Turn On to Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis

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