Superman Red and Blue: Thumbs up or down?

[Flash's Lightning]

I give it a thumbs up. I don't know why but I really enjoyed the story with the Millennium Giants and all.

And how it ended with both Supermen giving up their lives, with the very ground and sky changing colors...that's just so very Superman-ish. If anyone could change the color of everything, it'd be the S-man.

[rwe1138]

The only good thing to come out of that debacle was how Morrison used Electric Supes in JLA.

[Joe Acro]

I enjoyed Electric Superman immensely. The explanations of him splitting and recombining were thin or non-existent, but the stories told with the two were fun. I really liked that they seemed like two halves of a whole, instead of just two versions of Superman.

[Super Buddies Forever]

Electric Superman was fun because you knew it wasn't but a temporary change, and the idea of Superman having new, untested powers for an extended period of time had never really been done before. The only problem was that the writers never really had a grasp on how those powers worked.

Personally, I thought it would have been more interesting if he couldn't have changed into Clark Kent during this era. Yeah, it was an neat conceit to make Clark powerless and mortal, but to actually force him into a situation where he had to be Superman 24 hours a day and couldn't live his life as Clark could have led to some great moments.

[Montezuma]

I've been reading the early Superman Blue stories (got a stack of them for a quarter each) and find them to be a lot of fun. Especially those by Kesel, that guy knew how to write a fun Super-book. Don't have many of the later parts of the story when he splits into the two Supermen though.

[JohnRD]

I'm happy to hear I'm not the only person who dug the Electric Superman. I am glad it wasn't perminate, but I thought it was a fun attempt at changing things up, and I think Superman Blue would have worked on his own as a non superman hero.

[Theophilus]

It was a fun story that was a little exhausted by the end, but nonetheless worthwhile.

What's funny is the impression it made on people who don't even read Superman. The other day I told my dad I had brought him a Superman comic to read and he jokingly said, "It's not that electron Superman junk, is it?"

If a ten year old story that my father has never read instantly comes to mind when I bring up Superman...

Not bad. Not bad.