I liked some of the stuff that Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek did for Superman, and I have enjoyed Paul Cornell's Lex Luthor storyline, but for me I lost real interest in Superman after Dan Jurgens left in 1999.

He was the last connection to the Post-Crisis Superman saga that had been running from 1986.

Since that point Superman has been a pretty lost cause.

PS I was also a big Pre-Crisis Superman fan.

I don't always agree with what our government does around the world,
but I'm tired a people being apologetic and ashamed of being an
American. When comics were still something our adolescent kids read,
superheroes were there to reaffirm the basic morality of right and
wrong that they were being taught from there families and/or there
faith in a higher power. They didn't dwell on the negativity that real
world issues can sometimes bring. In this way, Superman out shined
them all.

During WWII, even though the covers might show the hero knocking
the snot out of Hitler, the creators were very careful not to undermine
the work being done by soldiers and real people by having try to solve
real world issues. They knew it was a slippery slope.

One of two things are going to come from this storyline. Either they
keep this "realistic" and deal with how this effects Clark and his entire
life as it concerns his living here, marriage, and mother and send the
character into ruin. Or, it can be written to eventually reaffirm his faith
in this country and reestablish his connection to the American Way.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can be around as a reader to see the
outcome. As someone who has a continuos run of every Superman
title since JB's Man Of Steel to present I will be canceling all of these
titles from my pull list for the foreseeable future.     

Edited by Stephen Churay on 30 April 2011 at 11:28pm

I have no doubt that David S. Goyer means it when he has Superman renounce his U.S. citizenship. I have no doubt that, being the Show Business God that he is, DC Editorial fell about themselves to print any and every scrap that dropped, gloriously, down upon them from his exalted position amongst the Stars.

All that being said, I believe most of DC's staff and creators (aside from those in Accounting) probably wish this hadn't happened. David S. Goyer has, in dilletante fashion, made a political statement for all DC Comics using Action #900 as a pulpit and Superman as his puppet. I imagine there are a slew of ventriloquists waiting backstage for him to vacant the podium and get that wooden-headed dummy saying all the right things again.

Now that it's gotten some ink, DC Editorial is profit-bound to see how much more can be wrung from this, but, allowing for the inevitable Graphic Novel-length storylines that now MUST be spooled from this tangle, I expect we'll be seeing more covers like these again within two or three years, as tales are crafted that show Superman learning from veterans, citizens, and emergency responders exactly what the American Spirit truly means, how it stills lives and strives within him despite his momentary, political short-sightedness, how the call of patriotism cannot be lost in the din of transient... (insert here 12 minutes from a Charlie McCarthy U.S.O. show...)

Brian, I robustly salute the American flag, and you.

By the way, any truth to the rumor that Goyer has submitted a follow-up story in which Superman returns to flying so he can knock American bald eagles out of the sky?

This one was from around the time of the first Gul War:

when that creative team replaced John Byrne on Superman, was the time when my interest in the character started to wane, as a whole.  when they got on Superman after JB, Superman didn't seem like a man anymore.  he was more of a symbol then.  and that wasn't for me.
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I'll agree to disagree with you there. I think people like Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, Jerry Ordway, Kerry Gammill, Bob McLeod, Louise Simonson,Jon Bogdanove and Jackson Guice did a great job.