Quote Originally Posted by manofsteel1979 View Post
The strongest part of that whole first New Krypton arc following the Action " Brainiac" arc. The 12 issue Superman: New Krypton series was great but that arc should have taken place in one of the main Superman books. The biggest fumble of that story was taking Superman's arc out of the main Supes books and putting it in a mini series. That alone impacted sales negatively. The casual reader wanting to pick up the latest Superman or Action during that run got a bunch of side characters instead. That was a really dumb decision.
I think DC was trying to expand the Superman universe and thought they could do this by having some lesser known supporting characters feature heavily in the main titles for a year, while continuing to publish Superman in the New Krypton mini. But as you said, sales dropped so hard during the year that any positive aspects of the story that could have been used once it completed were essentially ignored.