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I am my own aesthetic. Plus Oeming’s Highlander cover. Feels accurate. https://t.co/MpxMutZwJt
Some great covers from this collection. Seems increasingly likely that story was in the Man Of Steel soup, but maybe they left out a crucial ingredient.
Here are the first two and last two pages of this issue. Now while the characterizations are a bit dated, the drama is not. This is pure Lois and Clark drama, they just keeep missing each other. I love it.
Wonder if this Byrne story about Superman’s out-of-control powers was an inspiration for the MOS film climax. We see the villain putting Superman in a choke hold so as to aim his heat vision, flying into buildings, destruction. Except here Superman isn’t doing it on purpose.
But even in Byrne’s work, Superman remains the vehicle for this unmistakably political message about the scourge of inequality in America. That’s what he was created to be, from his earliest stories.
Byrne’s take on Suicide Slum was perhaps less nuanced than Wolfman and Ordway’s........
I think that might be a caricature of Ice-T?
Some great covers from this trade. You see Ordway really pushing the concepts, and Byrne proves me wrong on cover copy again because that Superboy vs Superman cover is compelling as fuck.
This came out of nowhere. An Erik Larsen issue. I’ve never seen this. Curious fill-in choice; his style is wildly different than Byrne and Ordway, whose work I would very broadly describe as part of that Neal Adams school. Larsen is very not that. Reminds me of underground comix.
Kilowog mentions losing his home world in the CRISIS. I’ve never been clear on this. Did characters remember Crisis on Infinite Earths or not? I thought only the Psycho Pirate and Pariah did.