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7) The Loeb/Kelly/Casey/etc. Era - 2000-2004 After the previous era lost steam, a new team was brought in. The weekly continuity was dropped, there was a drastic change in art and story style, and much of the large supporting cast was forgotten and trimmed down to the classics; Lois, Jimmy, Perry, Ma and Pa Kent, Lana, etc. GAG!!! The WORST Superman ever published!!!!! I had a hard time trying to sum this era up without expressing my pure distain. This era destroyed those elements, and turned a very realistic, and interesting Metropolis into a futuristic nightmare. I HATE the B13 Metropolis!!! I HATE Joe Kelly and Joe Casey!!!! I HATE the string of sub-par to horrible artists that populated the books!!!! And I HATE this whiny, unconfident Superman and his equally annoying wife, Lois Lane: Super-B****!!!!!!
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jedifish wrote: I'll also add that I was really surpised with how much I enjoyed the early Superman and Action Comics Archives. Mainly surpised since I find the 1960's-1986 stuff extremely dull and boring, and figured the original material would be the same. Not so.
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Lee Semmens wrote: One thing I have hated about various versions of Superman - and it seems to have started with the Superman movie of 1978 - is this ridiculous and illogical idea of Krypton being an ice planet. Sure, it sounds like an innovative gimmick for about five minutes, but it makes no sense - how could a planet covered in ice support human, animal, and plant life for any great length of time?
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droid714 wrote: jedifish wrote: I'll also add that I was really surpised with how much I enjoyed the early Superman and Action Comics Archives. Mainly surpised since I find the 1960's-1986 stuff extremely dull and boring, and figured the original material would be the same. Not so. I too, was pleasantly surprised by the Superman in Action Comics Archives. I avoided them initially, expecting them to be the same drivel I had known from the late 50's - early 60's. Not so! It was refreshing to see Supes as more of a strongman who was concerned with seeing justice done, even if he had to bend the law a bit to accomplish that. He couldn't even fly! How did he morph into an indestructible, nearly godlike creature?
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Lee Semmens wrote: As opposed to a lot of the drivel coming out of Marvel in the 1960s?
As opposed to a lot of the drivel coming out of Marvel in the 1960s?
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Although Byrne is one of my all-time favorite artists, I never liked his re-invention of Krypton and Lex Luthor...still don't. My favorite thing about the Byrne era was his choice to use ACTION as a Superman team-up book, which I thought made for some great reading.
Bottom line is it's pretty hard to defend DC's superhero output of the late 50's early 60's, especially the Superman/Batman stuff. Seriously, everytime Supes needed a new power to defeat an enemy, it pretty much magically appeared. If he needed to produce armpit farts at a specific frequency to render the foe unconcious, no problem! Mr. Mixitplik and Batmite? Please. Granted, the first 12-18 months of the "Marvel Age" produced some forgettable stories, they continued to improve as they went along. My biggest problem with Supes was that he was so nearly omnipotent, he should have been able to incapacitate any foe wthout breaking a sweat while simultaneously playing 50 games of chess. So they invented Kryptonite to make it even remotely possible for someone to beat him; suddenly, every two-bit hood in Metropolis had hunks of Kryptonite to torment him with. And when green K became old, up popped red, gold and even multi-colored!
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