Me? Exaggerate the attributes of something I hate so I can knock down a strawman? That doesn’t sound like me
In all seriousness, I
know I don’t give the good sides of Post-Crisis as much credit as I should, I just can’t help feeling like the good doesn’t outweigh the bad, and given writers almost immediately started trying to bring Pre-Crisis stuff back I just can’t help feeling like the way they approached it with Byrne just hurt Supes in the long run. And I also am a firm “Kents should be dead and add nothing to him being alive” for a variety of reasons so that’s kind of an insurmountable barrier for me. But I am trying to get some time to do a big reread of Byrne so I can give my honest appraisal of him now rather than critiquing something via memory.
That said my second favorite “era” for Superman aside from Morrison/Pak New 52 Action is when Johns & Busiek had the books. Both of them were doing fantastic work, and if they had stuck around to do New Krypton maybe things would’ve been different. Maybe Superman would’ve gotten his “Sinestro Corps War” his big event that revitalized the character and grabbed everyone’s attention. But it didn’t alas, and everything Busiek/Johns did got swept aside. I consider the Busiek/Johns “Pre-Flashpoint” Superman to be a different beast from the Post Crisis Superman though.
It’s true that there have definitely been some big “cosmic eras” for Superman. The upcoming FS Warworld story clearly has its roots in
Exile which I love. However Superman has never gone
fully cosmic which seems to be the plan under PKJ. He’s not going to be in Metropolis at all, or even on Earth, he’s 100% devoting his time to helping other worlds. That’s a big shift from the norm, where even stuff like Exile was just a temp change from the get go, and we still got cuts back to stuff going on back on Earth. That doesn’t seem to be the plan for PKJ, Jon will be the one you need to read to get your Earth based fix while Clark is totally off on his own.