It isn't Man of Steel, nor even remotely comic-related, but if anyone is looking for a thoroughly gripping read, every bit as much a white knuckle ride as the latest Star Trek movie, may I recommend Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and it's sequel, Bring up the Bodies?
I have no hesitation in saying these are quite possibly the best historical novels ever written - and I include War and Peace and I, Claudius. They are savage, gripping, vivid, psychologically penetrating and merciless.
The first two in a planned trilogy, they recount the life of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII.
In A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt depicts Cromwell as the calculating, opportunistic foil to Thomas More. Here in Mantel's version we see him in a different light - a man of great intelligence and implacability who amidst the carnage of Henry's medieval world, is absolutely loyal to his friends, relentless in destroying his enemies, and because of who the founding principles of our world first take recognizable form."He can draft a contract, train a falcon, draw a map, stop a street fight, furnish a house and fix a jury."
"This is a beautiful and profoundly humane book, a dark mirror held up to our own world."
The Guardian
Would that we had a work of fantasy or science fiction to match it.