For me ultimately whether or not he’s married to Lois or has Jon is secondary to whether Superman himself is written well. I like the marriage and I like Jon, but if someone like Hickman or Ewing were to want to come on and go in a different direction, I’d be totally cool with letting them. I want good stories with Clark at the center first and foremost.
Morrison’s run was successful, even if people don’t regard it on the same level as All-Star. What came after well, I’ll always argue Pak’s run is severely underrated.
And the DCEU? That was a merger of Snyder’s own terrible ideas with Byrne Post-Crisis Superman, not Golden Age/New 52, which probably mostly came from Goyer. Snyder even mocked t-shirt and jeans Superman as being “ashamed of the character” (oh the irony). Did you see that livestream of BvS where Snyder talks about Clark’s weird imaginary conversation with his father being his version of the Fortress of Solitude? That was very similar to Byrne’s take where the Clark Kent identity was the “updated” Fortress. Krypton being a crap hole where kids are made artificially? Byrne. Hell red head Lois Lane is from Byrne too. DCEU Superman is also not analogous to immigration at all (or rather he’s a very poor one) Dispenser of Truth did a good analysis of that aspect:
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Basically DCEU Superman is feared for his power, not because of his alien nature. He’s Space Jesus with laser eyes.
And it sucks because when you’ve got
Joker recreating the Joker as a class warrior who leads a revolution against the 1% while also still being an evil and insane monster and making over $1 billion? I totally think this guy:
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Could win some people over. At the very least it would be something we haven’t seen before that isn’t him turning evil. Especially considering that you’ve got other people like Ed Boon and NRS making him into a fascist who kills little boys for talking back. Like if we could let Lois & Clark be the Superdad for the people who want that while we go hard on Superman as an immigrant/social crusader in the movies, I’d feel a lot better about Superman’s ability to sustain himself in pop culture.