[Comics] What does DC think of Superman?

[Bubble181]

I thought the whole point of having 4-5-6-7 different titles of pretty much the same hero (Amazing Spiderman, Super Spiderman, Wondrous Spiderman, Spiderwoman, Spiderblob, Spider and his Friends, Spider City, Itsy Bitsy Spiderman,....does it show that I don't actually follow comics that closely? ) was to have them cater to different audiences - some more grimdark, some more aimed towards children, some more actioney, some more geared towards long form storytelling. Except, that seems to have been lost on them, and now they allget connected together to be in one big world where everything's turned to soup.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

I thought the whole point of having 4-5-6-7 different titles of pretty much the same hero (Amazing Spiderman, Super Spiderman, Wondrous Spiderman, Spiderwoman, Spiderblob, Spider and his Friends, Spider City, Itsy Bitsy Spiderman,....does it show that I don't actually follow comics that closely? ) was to have them cater to different audiences - some more grimdark, some more aimed towards children, some more actioney, some more geared towards long form storytelling. Except, that seems to have been lost on them, and now they allget connected together to be in one big world where everything's turned to soup.

So far as I know, that's rarely been the case. Sometimes, you'll have different creative teams on different titles, so they might differ in style or writing. But overall, there's not that much difference.

 

[Covar]

That's was the case with the Bat titles in early 00's, post No Mans Land. Batman would be the super-hero book, Detective Comics the mystery, Gotham Knights was him working alongside numerous members of the bat-family, and Legends of the Dark Knight was to be stories set in year two. It last for a couple of years. The different Bat and Superman titles in Rebirth are going to be kind of like this.

On the other side of the coin you had the Superman books throughout the 90's basically becoming one continuous weekly series. Complete with a yearly numbering system, known as the Triangle period.

Most the time it's not as strictly defined and publicized as those. With the different books given to different creators that can provide their own takes on the character.

 

[Hailey Knight]

They may aim to divvy up the Bat books in Rebirth, but we'll see how long that lasts.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

That's was the case with the Bat titles in early 00's, post No Mans Land. Batman would be the super-hero book, Detective Comics the mystery, Gotham Knights was him working alongside numerous members of the bat-family, and Legends of the Dark Knight was to be stories set in year two. It last for a couple of years. The different Bat and Superman titles in Rebirth are going to be kind of like this.

On the other side of the coin you had the Superman books throughout the 90's basically becoming one continuous weekly series. Complete with a yearly numbering system, known as the Triangle period.

Most the time it's not as strictly defined and publicized as those. With the different books given to different creators that can provide their own takes on the character.

Maybe it's because I grew up on them, but I liked the Triangle system. Although it didn't work out so well later one, when you had Jeph Loeb & Jeph McGuinnes on one book and other writers on other books. Loeb would set something up that was legitmately interesting and it'd be quickly explained away by another team in another book. Like, Jimmy catching a glimpse of a wedding ring on Superman's finger in a photo-op. So the whole world starts wondering who Mrs. Superman is. It never really got explored in any kind of interesting way and then shuffled away when the JLA had a live conferance, saying the "ring" was actually a new communicator for the team. Ugh.

Overall, I think the Triangle system worked earlier, though, like when Dan Jurgens was one of the creative team members.

 

[Covar]

The Superman books in the 90s are very underrated I think. Plenty of crazy stuff, lots of supporting cast, and a continuity driven story that hadn't been done before, or since.[DOUBLEPOST=1464821606,1464821285][/DOUBLEPOST]

They may aim to divvy up the Bat books in Rebirth, but we'll see how long that lasts.

Until creative shifts around probably. You've got Batman dealing with new heroes in Gotham over in Batman, working with his sidekicks in Detective, and Scott Snyder writing more isolated stories focusing on key villains over in All-star Batman. Those are just the Batman focused titles and their initial storylines so far, you will also get other Bat-family related titles.

 

[Hailey Knight]

So the order of things is to be

Batman Rebirth #1
Batman #1
Batman #2
etc

... Why didn't they just start with Batman #1? Naming it this way, if you picked up Batman #1 in a couple weeks, you might not know you missed the beginning of the new run.

 

[Covar]

So the order of things is to be

Batman Rebirth #1
Batman #1
Batman #2
etc

... Why didn't they just start with Batman #1? Naming it this way, if you picked up Batman #1 in a couple weeks, you might not know you missed the beginning of the new run.

You didn't miss the beginning of it though. It's a one shot story by 2 of the writers of the books.

 

[PatrThom]

So the order of things is to be

Batman Rebirth #1
Batman #1
Batman #2
etc

... Why didn't they just start with Batman #1? Naming it this way, if you picked up Batman #1 in a couple weeks, you might not know you missed the beginning of the new run.

It's so you can keep all of the eventual rebirths in chronological order.

--Patrick