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As it happens, I read Obsidian Age a few years after it came out, and it was probably to some degree spoiled for me, but that didn't subtract much because the story was actually complicated. There...

Everyone's experience is different, but I started my comments off by mentioning an earlier story, Joe Kelly's Obsidian Age, which killed off the JLA but did it thoughtfully and well. We have a story...

I've just sampled reviews of this issue, simply beginning at the top and going down, and the first three I hit rated it:

9 of 10.
7 of 10.
5 of 5.

I'll be blunt, keeping in mind that what we...

I agree with that for the most part. Paul Dini is a very good writer and had the mess of Countdown forced upon him and that was clearly not a fair measure of his caliber.

I think that the premise...

Absolutely. Oedipus Rex is predictable but memorable. I really enjoyed reading old Spectre stories from the 1940s which are totally predictable from the standpoint that the villain is going to be...

A better issue would have dispensed with the pointless buildup and given us the thoughts of the characters as they began to suspect that they might/would die, and how they feel about that for...

That's one of the best stories that DC has ever put out. Ideally, one would read Joe Kelly's entire run going into Obsidian Age because there is character development and foreshadowing that's useful...

I'm heartened to see that most people have the response that I would think would be the only possible response: That this issue was absolutely terrible.

Perhaps when a story, particularly a...

The surest proof in my mind that a great Superman movie could be made for today's audience is Captain America (granted, now 10.5 years old). The tone of that movie is just the tone of a great...

I'm sincerely surprised that anyone finds the Donner film boring; someone's personal experience is something one can't argue with, but it's taken me some thought to make sense of. I guess it is like...

I think what PKJ is saying is that there's no way a Superman adventure on Warworld very much like the 1989 one could have happened in this Superman's past.

Superman's tangled with Mongul's father...

FrogBros, it's good to know that there's a TP. The reading list is relatively byzantine for anyone who would try to identify the single issues, with three and arguably four separate titles involved...

Thanks, HsssH. It's a strong work so far, unmistakably creating a mood. I look forward to the next issue!

Well said! Some of the imagery has stuck around in my long term memory. And yet, Johnson's story is even richer so far.

In 1989, I got back into reading comics in a big way, and one of the best stories of that year was the "Superman in Space" storyline – a then-unprecedented 13 issues in length – that ended with...

The Dark Knight Strikes Again, among others.

I agree entirely. If Spider-Man had come out just as he did in 1940, the comparison to Superman would have been inevitable, but the entire genre was so developed by then that the comparison wasn't so...

FYI, the Batman Inc characters grew out of the Club of Heroes, which was in its original conception funded by a billionaire (John Mayhew, who looked more like Perry White until Morrison reinvented...

The idea that characters' concepts generally lifted from earlier ones is indeed a big topic; objectively, it's clear even that, say, Spider-Man is drawn to a considerable extent from Superman. And,...

DC has been running stories about this at least since the Earth-3 Owlman in 1966. (There was actually an evil Batman briefly in Batman #2 in 1940.) The Superman-Batman story "Absolute Power" explored...

In the 2000s, it was revealed that the plot of the first Batman story was stolen outright from a 1936 story featuring The Shadow. But the theft went further than what was shown back then. Here, I...

That's an outstanding point, Vordan! For those of us looking at the comics, it's the same outcome, and really whether they want to do something and can't, or simply don't care is a philosophical...

Today, an issue hit the virtual stands that will be discussed for a long time. Or will it? I think so, but however one feels about Jon Kent, he faces an enemy whose ability to destroy (or seriously...

This is really what Morrison's offering in this series, and it might have been done with two different characters, but Superman and Manchester Black were probably the best choices, representing the...

Thanks, B@3!

HsssH, the two Lia Nelsons appear to be significantly different, although we hardly saw anything of Morrison's version. They don't look alike. The Tangent Universe was full of plot...