What is the best Superman story arc?

[Old Fashion PB and J]

- 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?'

 

- All-Star Superman. I'm not much of a Grant Morrison fan, but this really was excellent, from beginning to end.

 

- I also enjoyed the recent Geoff Johns / Gary Frank 'Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes' and 'Brainiac' storylines in Action Comics.

I enjoyed the Geoff Johns run on action comics. The braniac storyline, and I enjoyed the Bizzarro one as well.

[ComicConnoisseur]

Superman has always been lame

 

I disagree.

+1

 

"Lame" characters don't translate across comic books, radio, newspaper funnies, movie serials, TV, animation and films. Or time itself.

yep lot`s of people trying to say Supes doesn`t fit in with modern audiences

but yet Superman`s last movie did outgrossed Wolverine`s movie at the box office!

Superman still got his fastball and Supes demise is highly exaggerated! (thumbs u

[ss5rmp]

Superman has always been lame

 

I disagree.

+1

 

"Lame" characters don't translate across comic books, radio, newspaper funnies, movie serials, TV, animation and films. Or time itself.

yep lot`s of people trying to say Supes doesn`t fit in with modern audiences

but yet Superman`s last movie did outgross Wolverine`s movie at the box office!

Superman still got his fastball and Supes demise is highly exaggerated! (thumbs u

 

id rather not talk of either movie ever again...although the superman movie is at least 10x better than the wolverine movie but thats still not saying much

[thecollectron]

I agree with the candidates mentioned. but, anyone else think its a bit sad that in 73 years there are only a small handful of truly great Superman stories? Maybe that true for all titles though. Which begs the larger question --- why do we love a medium of near total mediocre storytelling?

 

I may have misunderstood, but I interepreted "story arc" as a multi-issue story or a series of stories that have a common thread. I think there have been a lot of great and entertaining Superman stories throughout the decades (I enjoyed them, anyway), but many of them were stand-alone tales and I didn't consider them part of a longer story arc.

[ComicConnoisseur]

Superman has always been lame

 

I disagree.

+1

 

"Lame" characters don't translate across comic books, radio, newspaper funnies, movie serials, TV, animation and films. Or time itself.

yep lot`s of people trying to say Supes doesn`t fit in with modern audiences

but yet Superman`s last movie did outgross Wolverine`s movie at the box office!

Superman still got his fastball and Supes demise is highly exaggerated! (thumbs u

 

id rather not talk of either movie ever again...although the superman movie is at least 10x better than the wolverine movie but thats still not saying much

I agree both movies were not oscar winners but my point was more people still went to go see old skool Superman`s movie then the modern skool Wolverine`s movie. People have been trying to write off Superman as old and boring and losing his popularity yet still more people saw Supes last movie at the box office then Wolverine`s. (thumbs u

[nearmint]

I have high hopes for the next Superman film.

[Ken Aldred]

- 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?'

 

- All-Star Superman. I'm not much of a Grant Morrison fan, but this really was excellent, from beginning to end.

 

- I also enjoyed the recent Geoff Johns / Gary Frank 'Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes' and 'Brainiac' storylines in Action Comics.

I enjoyed the Geoff Johns run on action comics. The braniac storyline, and I enjoyed the Bizzarro one as well.

Yeah, I completely forgot about this Geoff Johns storyline, even though it immediately preceded the 'Legion' arc.

 

Can't think of a better artist to draw Bizarro characters than Eric Powell. (thumbs u

 

 

[chrisco37]

All Star Superman

+1

 

Really, really good! Also, makes me remember Superman for All Seasons. Love that series too.

 

All Seasons was really good.

 

But, All-Star Supes was the best Superman story.

 

 

[letsgrumble]

I have to agree with All-Star Superman. I also bought the Absolute HC version when it was released a few months back and loved reading it the second time around too. It is such a great story arc.

[chrisco37]

I have to agree with All-Star Superman. I also bought the Absolute HC version when it was released a few months back and loved reading it the second time around too. It is such a great story arc.

 

The best thing about it is that it read like a Silver Age book but, clearly, it's a modern book. It had that "goofy fun" quality of the SA, but more "modern" ideas and content.

 

Probably my favorite Morrison work. Even moreso than "The Invisibles".

[Ken Aldred]

I have to agree with All-Star Superman. I also bought the Absolute HC version when it was released a few months back and loved reading it the second time around too. It is such a great story arc.

 

The best thing about it is that it read like a Silver Age book but, clearly, it's a modern book. It had that "goofy fun" quality of the SA, but more "modern" ideas and content.

 

Probably my favorite Morrison work. Even moreso than "The Invisibles".

If I remember correctly, before the first issue was published, that's exactly what Morrison said he was trying for with this project.

 

I think he more than delivered on his promise, and that's something to be admired.