What is your favorite version of Superman?

[Bored at 3:00AM]

It can be a writer/artist team's depiction or a cartoon or an actor or film, cartoon, TV show...whatever

Who do you picture in your head when you think "Superman"?

I think you could all guess who mine is

[K7P5V]

The Loeb/McGuinness version is my all-time favorite

[exile001]

The Loeb/McGuinness version is my all-time favorite

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[Shadowcat]

Currently reading the post-Crisis era, and I’m almost at the end of Byrne’s run. It’s really good. There are some missteps (like the Fine version of Brainiac), but otherwise I’m really loving it. It’s got a kinda raw, kinetic energy going on.

[Jcogginsa]

The gestalt version that exists only in my head

If that's not allowed, then Grant Morrison's version

[Adekis]

The gestalt version that exists only in my head

If that's not allowed, then Grant Morrison's version

I think this is true of a lot of fans. It's certainly true for me.

My favorite Lois and Metropolis are from the 90s. My favorite Luthor and Jimmy are from the '60s. My favorite Superman and Clark are from the New 52, which is already kiiind of a mix of the early Golden Age and late Silver Age? And the list goes on. There's no singular unified version of the character and his whole world that's just the ideal for me. Just variations on a theme where I like the execution more or less across 80 and counting years of media.

And I think that's kinda neat.

[Ascended]

The gestalt version that exists only in my head

If that's not allowed, then Grant Morrison's version

This.

Like Adekis, and I imagine everyone else, I pull from bits and pieces. Movies, shows, different eras, other IP, stuff I've heard or seen people say that has nothing to do with Superman beyond me thinking "hey that kind of applies and I like it."

[Vordan]

No real surprise there but Quietly is definitely the guy who defines Superman and his world in my mind. If I had to pick a bunch of real actors though, “my” Superman looks like Welling, acts like Hoechlin, and sounds like Tim Daly.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

No real surprise there but Quietly is definitely the guy who defines Superman and his world in my mind. If I had to pick a bunch of real actors though, “my” Superman looks like Welling, acts like Hoechlin, and sounds like Tim Daly.

You're one of those guys who plays roulette by placing bets on everything, aren't you?

[Buried Alien]

Christopher Reeve and Pre-COIE Bronze Age Earth-One.

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[Alpha]

Even though it's supposed to be someone else, Superman Secret Identity is the best depiction of how Superman should feel to me.

[MRP]

For me, the Fleischer cartoons hands down...



and in comics, the original Siegel/Shuster version, in particular the Superman from the daily and Sunday comics strips and the first couple dozen issues of Action Comics.

-M