Superman Unlimited tome 1

Superman Unlimited #1-6

by Dan Slott, Rafael Albuquerque (Illustrator)

All-star creative team Dan Slott and Raphael Albuquerque take on the Man of Steel! When a city-sized asteroid hurtles toward Earth, Superman is sent in to save the day —but the reality of the crisis may be more than even he can handle!

Superman has long since considered Earth to be his home after surviving the destruction of his birth planet, Krypton, as an infant. Now, thanks to a crisis of global proportions, the Man of Steel is confronted with a dangerous new status quo—Earth may no longer be safe for him, and yet he is still tasked with saving it.

Featuring the writing talents of Dan Slott, making his DC Comics ongoing series debut, and the art of Raphael Albuquerque, Superman Unlimited is a brand-new cornerstone series of the DC Universe, paving the way for every Superman fan!

Collects Superman Unlimited #1-6.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Superman, Dc Comics, Superheroes

160 pages, Hardcover

First published February 24, 2026

About the author

Dan Slott is an American comic book writer, the current writer on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man, and is best known for his work on books such as Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, The Superior Spider-Man, and Ren & Stimpy.

Reviews

[Kapitol Tank]

Volumen que va a recopilar Superman Unlimited #1-6..

[Alex Sarll]

I first encountered Dan Slott at DC, when he wrote an Arkham miniseries and talked about its debt to Oz. But since then he's mostly been at Marvel, writing first a brilliant She-Hulk and then an epic Spidey run which, in places, almost achieved the impossible of making me like 616 Peter Parker. So the thought of him back at DC and working on the first and greatest superhero? Hell yes. But the problems start with that title, Superman Unlimited. Partly it's the association with the wretched Justice League Unlimited comic* to which, thank heavens, this is far superior. But also it's flat-out false for a series which puts major constraints on Superman by massively upping the amount of Kryptonite on Earth. True, he also gets a new power which is some help in dealing with that, but it's one that comes with its own drawbacks, and is also...quite silly? More than that, I kept thinking back to Steven Seagle's It's A Bird, and his musings on what it says about humanity that, nearly as soon as we'd dreamed up something as wonderful as Superman, we had to invent something that would poison him. Much like Clark, I just don't want to spend much time around it, and here its sickly green glow is everywhere. Nor is that the only issue with the visuals, where Albuquerque and Maiolo are, not to put too fine a point of it, doing some truly dreadful work. Look at Jon on the cover, until recently the fit Superman, but now looking like Jimmy Carr since whatever went weirder with Jimmy Carr's face a year or two back. Inside we soon find Wonder Woman looking like she's being played by Chucky, and on the flashback to Clark first donning the S, the shadows make his face look like he drank from the wrong Grail. The irony is that so many of the characters look like creepy mannequins that when an actual creepy mannequin joins the story, he looks more normal than half the rest of the cast. And it's a tragic waste, because despite my unease with the overarching story (and my frustration that nobody seems to think of investigating just why a massive, stealthed Kryptonite meteor was heading for Earth in the first place), when it comes to the smaller details you can tell that Slott really gets Superman, something you'd think might be common among superhero writers but sadly really isn't. The issues are peppered with little rescues and kindnesses, and it spills out from Kal himself, so that his presence makes others better too, even generic crooks showing moments of compassion and decency once he's around, and a couple of lovely little twists where something set up to look dastardly turns out not to be after all. There are also some delightful callbacks to great Superman moments past, and a general willingness to embrace Silver Age goofiness, right down to a talking ape joining the Planet staff (and I don't mean Steve Lombard). More fill-in artists, more S and less K, and this could be a great run. Fingers crossed Slott is planning to stick around through as many status quo changes as he brought to Spider-Man and give us that.

*I have absolutely no quarrel with the joyful cartoon of the same name.

[Subham · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has gotta be one of my favorite Superman volumes I have read in quite a while like its so fun bro!

I love the premise of it being that Superman saves a city from asteroid of kryptonite falling and we see like flashbacks of his origins and big moments and its done so well like a flashback before dying and its so cool and then seeing what happened to him after that and the plot of kryptonite kingdom in a portugese nation and the rise of EL CALDERO, love the premise and also Supermans golden form an a limitation on that and Superman dealing with this!

With that premise we see him deal with that and the next 2 stories like one vs Toyman and a story pretty much focused on Krypto it was so cool honestly loved that honestly! It shows the bond between the man and the dog and then we go to Gotham and Superman turning into a bat because silver age writing style and maybe that was what was needed.. it might look ridiculous but it was so cool I honestly loved it! Jimmy and the new ape Tee-nah helping free Superman and wow bruce doing bruce things lol!

Honestly this was so fun! And then a story where he goes to Cal dero and dealing with the sunstone crystal and fighing kobra and also coming face to face with President Castilho, aka the Kryptonite king and for real he is turning into such a great nemesis for Superman showing how he has two sides and by the end of the first arc its even more so obvious.. the setup for that was amazing and I am really excited to see that story continue!

So an amazing story this volume and the writing style felt very silver age-ish thats like the hallmark Slott style after having read all his runs at marvel but fun addition to the Superman mythos!

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dan Slott makes his DC (ongoing) debut, launching the first new Superman ongoing in a long time, to various degrees of success.

The first issue of this run is basically a recap of Superman's history, which feels kind of cheap, especially given the larger page count. The inciting incident for the series, the arrival of more Kryptonite on Earth, does manage to be a threat, both on the major and minor scales however, so it's worth powering through to get to the rest.

The remaining five issues are one-and-done stories and a two-parter to finish us off, which are Slott's specialties. The Krypto story's great, and I enjoyed the Man-Bat one in the middle too, but the running theme with those was that neither of them was really about the larger status quo, but just more general Super-stories.

The artwork is what really let me down, I think. There's a point in the first issue where series artist Rafael Albuquerque draws Jon Kent, but manages to draw the Superboy version of him rather than the current aged-up version, which is a bizarre thing for the editors not to catch, and then things deteriorate later on as he shares issues with other artists, including Mike Norton who was very clearly not doing his best work overall either. In fact, the best art throughout is the couple of fill-in pages that Lucas Meyer did for issue 3, which is a weird thing to be saying on an Albuquerque book.

Not really a bird, or a plane, just kinda...floating there, for now. Surprising.

[L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Je ne m'attendais pas à grand chose de Dan Slott et il a très bien mené son histoire. Pourtant, je ne suis pas fan du concept de rendre Superman vulnérable pour pouvoir raconter ses histoires car je pense que c'est une solution de facilité. Mais comme l'histoire est ambitieuse et fun dans son traitement, ça passe très bien. Le premier numéro fait un résumé biographique du personnage tout en posant les fondations de la série ce qui est parfait pour un néophyte. Pour le moment, tout ça se tient et développe le Daily Planet, Krypto mais malheureusement pas Jon. Espérons qu'il aura plus à faire pour la suite.
Alors je trouvais la couverture moche (celle de la version US) et j'ai été assez surpris de voir que c'était Rafael Albuquerque que j'aime plutôt beaucoup d'habitude. Sauf que là, je sais pas ce qui lui est arrivé, mais c'est pas terrible. Les visages sont bizarres, le tout fait inabouti sauf sur quelques moment de bravoure. Mais bon, la mise en page est réussie ce qui donne une lecture fluide et dynamique. Mais il a été nettement meilleur auparavant.
Une bonne série que je conseille à des personnes qui veulent commencer du Superman sans heurts.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

When a comic creative team is having fun readers have fun. And clearly everyone involved with the stories in this volume were having the time of their lives because I had A BLAST with this comic. It was so much fun, so creative, and full of heart.

[Dean · Rating 1 out of 5]

i did not care for this.
art is fine.

[Shawn · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5. Dan Slott’s run is incredibly fun. It hasn’t quite hit its stride but it’s still a blast.

[spencer · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Keegan Schueler · Rating 4 out of 5]

So good and is literally my kind of random Superman stories that are slightly tied together. What action comics basically is but still great.

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

It’s got an interesting take and new twist. But it also at times feels like a kid from my generation got control of the title and started playing with the toys.

[Franck Martini · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un bon gros popcorn silver age a mort, des dessins très fun et une histoire bien déjantée et décalée. Le numero 6 entraîne un changement de ton qui semble faire penser que cette histoire peut s’inscrire dans la durée (alors qu’elle ne devrait pas au fond). A suivre…

[Mocassin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une nouvelle série assez déroutante dans son format et son ton. Il s'agit en fait de petites aventures plus ou moins indépendantes qui découlent de la situation initiale où une gigantesque masse de kryptonite tombe sur Terre et la rend donc accessible à tous. On est sur du récit très Silver Age dans le ton, donc qqch de plus léger. Ça fonctionne plutôt bien, c'est amusant et lumineux à souhait.