Quote Originally Posted by Ascended View Post
Honestly man? I devoured everything from Death-Return to the Cadmus Wars finale in Action 700, and I couldnt point to anything that really stood out because it was all solid quality. At least I thought so at the time; most of those issues I have not pulled out of storage in ten years, so Ive no idea how well they've aged.

But Action 700 was pretty huge to me; it was a level of destruction porn I had not yet seen (outside of stuff like Zero Hour that was so big it held no meaning) and it resolved subplots that had been going for a few years, as well as wrapping up Lex Luthor's status quo from the time.

Let's see.....I couldnt tell you issue numbers or trade names, but there was the story where Clark's powers overload beyond his ability to control them....the whole Conduit fiasco.....probably the best of them all was the Bizarro revision, which to this day remains my favorite Bizarro story ever. Well...Pak's stand alone issue might be my new favorite, but its close.

Kessel's Superboy series was really damn strong for a long time. There was an issue early on (issue 4 I think) that had Superboy's manager producing a Superboy cartoon in the style of the 90's Batman series, which was a lot of fun. PAD's Supergirl was probably one of my favorite titles until around issue 50 when it started to get really weird (like, she-male were-horse angel weird). Steel was a decent book but its best days were also its last, when....I wanna say it was Priest, came on and saw the book to its finale.

I'd say just start at Death of Superman and keep going until a bad pastiche of a conservative named Dirk Armstrong (or something) joins the Planet. When that guy shows up it heralds the beginning of the downfall, as the supporting cast begin to crowd Superman out of his own books and the creative teams start to run out of ideas, which lead to the Electric Superman saga and the Red/Blue redux.
You just made me realize something weird.

At the present moment we are dealing with a bunch of alternate versions of Superman who are fighting to become the "official" one. Right?

So... Haven't we already seen something similar?
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At the end of the Jurgens era, there were at least two or three crossovers which focused on alternate versions of Superman in the same continuity. In at least one of those occasions the main villain was Dominus (a completely forgotten character - many people hated him but I still like the design a lot, it's weird and surreal) and in another one some kind of alien telepath named Cogito (I never read that story, though).

The weird thing is that that period was the last straw before the end of the Jurgens era. The super Morrison/Waid/Millar/Peyer team should have followed, but everything fell apart and we had the Loeb/Kelly run (which I still like a lot, it was full of good ideas for the most part even if they weren't implemented successfully).

Somehow, I got the impression that we just went back to the past.