Superman: For Tomorrow

Story Brian Azzarello/art by Jim Lee.

I've never heard of any of the events that occur in SFT being referenced ever again - and yet I hear that it's supposed to have taken place in DC's main continuity at the time.

Surely something like the 'Vanishing' - where over a million people literally disappeared with no apparent explanation - would be referenced subsequently in-story at some point. There's a line from Supes towards the end to the effect that 'in time people will forget' but that makes even less sense than the line at the end of The Simpson's episode where it turns out Skinner has been an impostor named 'Armin Tamzarian' the whole time but it's decreed that no-one will ever speak of it again - and they don't!

So was SFT in main continuity? If so, why didn't anybody ever reference something so huge? It's as though DC just decided to pretend the whole story never saw the light of day. Or, have there in fact been references to it that I just haven't found?

(Fantastic art job by Jim Lee, btw.)

 

That's interesting about the jungle FoS - how long did it stay that way? (I'm not a regular reader of Superman's solo material.) Yeah, I guess IC was looming - it just seemed strange, reading about this "cataclysmic event" (their words) and then to never hear of it again. At all.

 

I now can't unsee an image of some poor postman carrying sackfuls of letters up all those steps!

 

Okay, thanks.