Posts

Showing posts from December, 2023

Elliot S! Maggin's Miracle Monday vs Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? - (The Miracles and Tragedies of Pre-Crisis Bronze Age Superman)

Image
Link to Post on Reddit           This is a post I've been meaning to make for over a year now. This will be divided into 5 segments after this brief introduction, feel free to read at your own pace: Identity Crisis Man of Tomorrow The Impossible Foe The Sanctity of Life Miracles and Tragedies           Pre-Crisis Superman comics are heavily underrated these days. I'm a younger fan myself and it seems most older fans relative to me that I know grew up with early to late Post-Crisis, and so they heavily prefer that era. However, a lot of great Superman writers from that and even the current era like Mark Waid and Grant Morrison greatly prefer that older era, and have themselves criticized and/or retconned elements Byrne introduced in his reboot. So have Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek in their runs. Because of this, a lot of fans in my generation seem to be following suit in appreciating it. There are plenty of great creators and wor...