Mcfarlane, despite being part of the Image group, was always pretty good at getting his books out on time.

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You obviously don't remember the debacle that was the release of issues 18/ 19 ( or 19/ 20, can't remember exact numbers) of SPAWN. And his releases up to that point weren't all exactly on-time either. I even remember his schedule being way off by the time it hit issue 100.

The image at the top of the page still looks like Superman to me. It's Superman in a poorly designed costume, but still recognizable. I think the costume has trunks, too, they just happen to match the pants.

You obviously don't remember the debacle that was the release of issues 18/ 19 ( or 19/ 20, can't remember exact numbers) of SPAWN. And his releases up to that point weren't all exactly on-time either. I even remember his schedule being way off by the time it hit issue 100.

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19 and 20 came out after 21 and 22 or something right? Looking at the credits, it looks like McFarlane didn't even draw 19 and 20 (he was doing Spawn/Batman I think) so the delays were probably on Greg Capullo's end (unless you know the full story and can fill me in).

He didn't get  all of the early Spawn books out on time but he was by far the most prompt. There's that famous story about how he chewed everyone out behind closed doors because he was the only one that hit his deadlines which leads me to believe that despite the public comments he made he did know how important deadlines were.

When he was at Marvel he actually had a pretty strong reputation for hitting deadlines I believe. I recall hearing somewhere his promptness`is the reason he landed a lot of his early high profile jobs.

They talked about getting rid of his underwear.

And they work for DC on the most iconic super-hero in the
world.

What the heck is going on here?

The costume is ugly. Not realistic. He is Superman for
dog's sake. The only realistic thing about him was the
"man" part. You know, the part JB focused on in his
reboot (or whatever the heck you want to call MOS).

I liked his rationale for their changes and appreciated his
need to stay on model.

I do wish they put John Stewart back in the original
uniform though, as opposed to staying truer to his later,
less green, look.

Under re-examination, there is nothing wrong with
Superman's costume. It works so well in so many
different formats. Just look at Superman the Movie and
see how well the the now classic costume works in the
real world.

This is the Superman everybody knows and loves. Like I
said, they aren't going after new readers, they are going
after the current readers of other titles, or the
carnival costumer who may take a peek to see what they
did to Superman's costume.

If anything really works here or comes out of the reboot,
it will be the digital format...

But like i said for years now, right here, the comics we
grew up with and the industry we loved is gone. They
killed it and cannot save it. So they are changing it.
Comics are becoming digital chapters of the next TPB.

Hopefully, they will also realize that this move will
kill the LCS and realize that Amazon and the internet is
killing the book store. Then they can at least give us
covers that help sell the books again, since we will be
looking online to buy the TPBs.

But I would imagine that by the time I'm dead, TPBs and
anything published on paper will be a thing of the
past...

Oh, how I miss the smell of paper in the morning ;-)

Jason L, McFarlane was pretty good about hitting deadlines as a company guy (his cited reason for leaving Amazing was the three extra issues the book had during the summer and his concern that he wouldn't be able to do all of them in a timely fashion), but at Image, not so much.

He took #16-18 off (Grant Morrison and Greg Capullo did a story) to do the Spawn/Batman story, but #19-20 were supposed to be by him and solicited as such.  But then the series was running so late that he ended up just going straight to #21 instead (which clearly followed directly from Spawn/Batman).  And then #19 and 20 showed up out of the blue one day by a fill-in team.  Tom Orzechowski (of X-Men lettering fame) was the writer, but I don't recall the artist.  Then he skipped #25 as part of the "Image X-Month" event (he did CyberForce instead) and never came back as penciller.

After that I stopped reading and paying attention, but I remember hearing that at one point the book was so far behind the solicits that it was returnable for years.