Great Times To Be A Superman Fan

[jaguarshark]

Just wondering, what do you fine folks consider to be the best times to have been a Super-fan? The years when a lot of great work was being done on the character; a great movie or TV show was being made; merchandising was particularly great; or just anything else happened that made it an exciting time to be a Super-Fan? What were your favourite times? Or the times you wished you were around for?

I posted a similar thread at the Batman board, and noted that the present is a pretty sweet time. I'd have to say the same about Superman as well, what with 'SR' and 'All-Star' coming along in the last 12 months.
How about you?

[botch]

i'd imagine it would have had to have been when the original movie came out.

[Yoda]

Now is pretty good for me! We got the movie, which I liked a lot, a video game coming out in a couple of months that looks amazing. Two monthly (and one bi-monthly) comics coming out which are written by top talent and are great! An anthology series coming out in a few months, great merchendise! A tv show, and DVD collections of some of the best cartoon verisions of the character ever!

I think now is probably the best time to be a Superman fan from that perspective.

[Kara Zor El]

It must have been great when he first appeard. Because he was so new. Waiting each month for action Comics to reveal more about the character and then the Radio show must have been a blast at the time too.

[mrc1214]

I hated the movie but as far as comics all 3 books are very good. So i would say now.

[Kilgore Trout]

I've actually just quit reading Superman comics after DECADES of monthly reading...

I was disapointed by the movie in a MAJOR way...

And as for the comics, it seems that the last time they gave an Infinite Crisis, Superman took the biggest hit, this time the Infinite Crisis seems to have bypassed him altogether...

I thought the WHOLE POINT of an INFINITE CRISIS is that it would be used to present clear, definable changes and differences in Superman and in the direction they would take him...

But there aren’t any differences unless you count Busiek's penchant for filling every available space in the comic with excess verbage...

For me its the WRONG Superman in the WRONG setting at the WRONG time...

[J. Robb]

My favourite run of the comics was around '89 to '94. The weekly serial format kept the books exciting and my first-read every week. There were great stories like "Exile", "Panic in the Sky", "Krimson Kryptonite", of course the Death and Return, and many more.

[Hellcow]

Best time for me was reading Superman For All Seasons, and when I'm reading All Star Superman.... so now's pretty good I guess. Wish someone besides Singer had of directed the film though... it could have been sooooo great....

[PastePotPete]

But there aren’t any differences unless you count Busiek's penchant for filling every available space in the comic with excess verbage...

For me its the WRONG Superman in the WRONG setting at the WRONG time...

Too many words...?

I completely disagree. Busiek's Superman is FILLED with action. There's plenty of verbage, but nothing on par with a Brian Michael Bendis "Let's sit around and talk" comic. Busiek gives you a dense reading experience, but it's never boring. You just get your three dollars worth.

It may be too early to tell, but to me it looks like Busiek's Superman may be the best we've had in a while. And I've been collecting Superman pretty regularly since his death.

I beseech you, give it another shot.

[Kilgore Trout]

Too many words...? I beseech you, give it another shot.

NO thanks!

Grant Morrison gets more done in ALL STAR Superman with one sentence than Busiek does in a whole book...

Busiek has this penchant for packing almost every panel with mountains of 1st Person narrative blocks, word and thought balloons and even the lyrics of a radio playing in the background appear on the page... :rolleyes:

I think he believes that it passes for depth or gives gravity to the situations but for me all the excess verbage just serves to interfere with the story flow and possibly shows a writer not completely comfortable with his artist...

I don’t need everything I’m looking at in a comic book described to me in writing on the same page …

[eggie]

Personally, I think now is the best time to be a Superman fan. He has A-list creators on all 3 titles (all-Star, Action Comics, and Superman) and in October Johns, Donner, and Adam Kubert will be on Action Comics, plus we just had a great Superman movie released in June!

[nightscream]

Oh...Now is most definitely the best time to be a Superman Fan. As is anytime, Superman is not just a charecter you can be a fan of one day and the next you frogot him. Anytime someone finds Superman for the first time it is great. As someone to look up to not just for his powers but how he utilizes them. It is not just about a comic book charecter it's about the ideals that Superman is about. It's his forever weakness of emotion for others that makes him human. He has been great going strong for close to 70 years. Anytime and all of the time is great to be a Superman fan.

[jaguarshark]

Oh...Now is most definitely the best time to be a Superman Fan. As is anytime, Superman is not just a charecter you can be a fan of one day and the next you frogot him. Anytime someone finds Superman for the first time it is great. As someone to look up to not just for his powers but how he utilizes them. It is not just about a comic book charecter it's about the ideals that Superman is about. It's his forever weakness of emotion for others that makes the him human. He has been great going strong for close to 70 years. Anytime and all of the time is great to be a Superman fan.
Well said!

[jaguarshark]

Oh, I just thought of another great time to have been a Superman fan... I would have loved to have been around when the Fleischer cartoons were coming out. How great must it have been to be able to go to the movies on a semi-regular basis and see those brilliant short works?

[BulletsOfLiquid]

Personally, when the 90's were around I tihnk Supes were badass, you had Supes tattos, Supes cartoons, Supes comics that were selling a guap.

The 90's for me.