What is your favorite period of Superman comics?

[Gangbuster]

Dan Jurgens isn't the best writer in the world. He's good at gimmicks that sell comics...in fact, all he really did was turn the old imaginary stories into "real" stories- the death and wedding. And Zero Hour was just plain awful...it was like "Look at me! I can do Crisis on Infinite Earths too! I'm cleaning house!"

There have been a lot of good Superman writers over the years, too many to name. I like Siegel, Maggin, Waid, Loeb...

My favorite Superman artists would definitely be Curt Swan, Tom Grummet, and Jim Lee, even though they haven't always worked with the best writers. I grew up with the Byrne Superman, but the more backstories I read I wish they would change the name of the Man of Steel miniseries to "Just Imagine John Byrne's Superman."

[Gary]

I don't think Jurgens is the world's best writer either. Sometimes I like what he comes up with, other times not. I did enjoy the death storyline, but not particularly for Jurgens' contributions -- the Cyborg Superman had a contrived origin and his defeat was a pretty horrible deus ex machina. I would rate him above Byrne (or at least above Byrne's work on Superman), but that isn't saying a lot. My favorite writer on the "new" Superman was Karl Kesel.

As for "Just Imagine John Byrne's Superman"... heh heh heh.

[Super Monkey]

"Just Imagine John Byrne's Superman"

[Gary]

The point of "Just Imagine John Byrne's Superman," I think, is that it would've been like Stan Lee's version, i.e. a one-shot mini-series after which the regular continuity would have resumed.

[Super Monkey]

The point of "Just Imagine John Byrne's Superman," I think, is that it would've been like Stan Lee's version, i.e. a one-shot mini-series after which the regular continuity would have resumed.

Plus they both have the same thing in common.... they were awful  :l:

[Bill 9000]

Hmmm ... now that I think about it, though, there were a lot of great Superman stories from Julius' era that are near and dear to my heart, too.

[GeorgeKirk]

Although a lot of the coolest facets of Superman's universe were invented during the Weisinger era, I'm going to go with the Schwartz era. Nothing compares with Maggin's stories, IMO.

The Byrne/Jurgens stuff just doesn't hold up over time. When I was in my early-to-mid teens I was in love with the whole Death-and-Return arc. And then I revisited it a few years later, and I couldn't believe I had ever enjoyed it.

[NotSuper]

The Byrne/Jurgens stuff just doesn't hold up over time. When I was in my early-to-mid teens I was in love with the whole Death-and-Return arc. And then I revisited it a few years later, and I couldn't believe I had ever enjoyed it.

I felt the same way when I was younger. Looking back now, I can clearly see the flaws.