So is Superman readable yet?

[Spike_x1]

Yeah, imagine that: taking where Superman was at at the time and actually building on it while focusing on an eminently human Clark Kent at the core of it all resulted in good stories. Crazy.

I only wish DC had the balls to let Rucka give Superman and Lois a real child rather than Zod's stupid leftovers. That whole plot thread with Mxy dropping hints ultimately led nowhere, which is the only real downside to Rucka's otherwise brilliant run.

Rucka's run was what brought me back to Superman's titles after a couple years of waiting for the mediocrity of the books to end. Once I accepted Hamilton as Ruin (I still don't like that part, but whatever), Rucka's run was otherwise fantastic.

I haven't bought a Superman comic in so long, ever since Johns started drowning the line in Silver Age wackiness. I can't wait until the next generation of writers come along and retcon it.

 

[Stallion9979]

bring back Jurgans and Breeding!!!!

 

[Stealth_Prime]

Bring back whoever; just keep Lois.

 

[Aristotle]

No, Detective Comics is been quite bad of late. The crap from Countdown is bleeding over into Detective.

That's not true. That only happened the one time, and it was a fine story.

 

[ssj wolverine]

It is unfortunate that Supes has sucked for a while now. You would think the cornerstone of DC comics would have decent stories now.

 

[Stallion9979]

well hopefully that will soon change...I just dont get why they keep messing around with a hero that had nothing wrong with it UNTIL they started monkeying around with him...

 

[The Leaguer]

That's not true. That only happened the one time, and it was a fine story.

No, I mean the quality in general.

 

[Aristotle]

I still think it's fine for doing traditional, straight-up Batman stories.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Personally, I'm prefering Morrison's take on Batman in the main title over Dini's in Detective.

I just love that crazy ass s**t going on like Ninja Man-Bats and Batman having an illegitimate child that desires for his affections.

 

[Aristotle]

Generally I'm OK with both of them. Detective is doing fine for straight-up Batman tales, although it's nowhere as good as some of the classic runs.

Morrison's Batman is certainly something that interests me, and I'm excited to be finally getting the sort of larger, cohesive narrative we were promised back in the day. Is the Black Casebook finally gonna happen, and all those other subplots that were dangled in front of us? Anyway, while I'm consistently interested to see what's going to happen, it's just not as awesome I was led to expect it would be.

Frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing James Robinson get another shot at tackling Batman. Face the Face wasn't stellar, but I think that was mostly because he had so many things that he obviously had to do by editorial mandate.

 

[DavidTyler]

well hopefully that will soon change...I just dont get why they keep messing around with a hero that had nothing wrong with it UNTIL they started monkeying around with him...

I blame Dan Didio.

Him and his Silver Age fetish.

If he told the writers 'No', we wouldn't have the trash they're putting out.

The only silver age thing I'm glad they brought back was Hal Jordan. I would have did that differently, though. I would have made Hal, Guy, and Kyle instructors on OA and left John Stewart as the Green Lantern of Earth.

 

[JTStarkiller]

I'm really enjoying Johns' arc on Action right now, and All-Star Superman is easily the best line out there, when it decides to come out.

Superman, on the hand, hasn't been interesting for quite a while now. Somehow I just can't get excited about the Insect Queen.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

I agree that Didio does have this uneeded desire to create a modern spin on rebirthing the Silver Age. It really doesnt make sense sometimes given the what a post infinite/identity was intending to create a mood that was very un-silver age in terms of mood.

Having said all that I do get a little kick out of certain stuff like this insect queen thing (what can I say, if its got Lana in it Im gonna take a gander)

As for the rest of the titles, I was intruiged by Donner's run on Action Comics but some of the latest stuff Ive skimmed through like Bizzarro's world hasnt really intruiged. All-Star is meant to be great but I found the first few issues unappealing, I should catch up though as the last few Ive skimmed (esp. the one with the Supermen from a few months back) looked good. Guess Im more Batman head.

 

[fifthfiend]

Kelly's was better than either of the former two, I've come to realize. "Trial by Fire" is possibly the greatest Martian Manhunter story ever.

It also managed to be a pretty good Plastic Man story, which I liked.

I still kind of miss Scorch, she was a fun matchup for J'onn.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

I
As for the rest of the titles, I was intruiged by Donner's run on Action Comics but some of the latest stuff Ive skimmed through like Bizzarro's world hasnt really intruiged. All-Star is meant to be great but I found the first few issues unappealing, I should catch up though as the last few Ive skimmed (esp. the one with the Supermen from a few months back) looked good. Guess Im more Batman head.

meant to be great?! it is......

 

[Super_Ludacris]

I havent read the series in its entireity. Do you read posts or just skim through em?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

GAH is illiterate. I've come to this conclusion because the only way to enjoy all of the crappy **** that he enjoys is to just stare at the pretty pictures and totally ignore the story.

 

[Anubis]

But All-star is great. He's bound to get a couple right.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, Quitely draws pretty pictures.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

Thats one thing I dont dig about it, the artwork.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's sad. Quitely's a phenomenally talented artist.

 

[echostation]

the next all star superman in MARCH???? YOU@RE KIDDING!!!!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

At least it's on a better schedule than that other All-Star book.

 

[Damiean Dark]

I love how the "too powerful" argument has never made sense, yet so many people continue to cite it.

I think the too powerful statement they mean aSuperman has really no trouble with his storys he can do almost anything in some comics how aree you supposed to get hyped when a crisis occurs?.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's a failure on the writers' part for not challenging him enough, not a fault of the character.