Anyway, this is largely a celebration of Superman, what makes him inspiring for all of us; and aside from a couple visits to his 1930's beginnings and one to the future, a lot of the stories seemed to be from the Triangle era, which was probably the heyday of the book for a lot of the creators. I didn't love that it closed, as DC often seems to do now with this kind of milestone book, with an attempt to kick off like the next 1000 issues with a bang; here by introducing Brian Bendis as the writer, and new villain Rogol Zaar. Neither Bendis nor Zaar seemed to take off, there: Zaar is a big, chatty Mongul-type, who claimed to have been responsible for the destruction of Krypton; and this feels like any number of extraneous bits that have been bolted to and subsequently fallen off of the Joe Chill/Batman origin over the years.
But, in the plus column, there's a repurposed Curt Swan, and Butch Guice story, originally written by Cindy Goff but rewritten by Marv Wolfman: four previously unpublished pages from one of the greatest Superman artists ever, that then cheats a bit by reusing a page from Superman: the Secret Years #2, but we'll allow it! It is sad that we've lost Butch Guice and John Cassaday since then, though.
This won't fit in the scanner, so this post is largely to gently bash Bendis a bit and maybe remind myself to not buy yet another copy; but I would be remiss if I didn't try to get a bit of José Luis García-López's "Actionland!" I...I want to go to there.
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A chatty character created by Bendis!? Nooooo! Who’d a thunk it 🙄
Count me in as a fellow Bendis hater, but for all the right reasons. I preferred him back when he first appeared on Wizard magazine’s radar with AKA Goldfish & Jinx.
John Cassidy died!? Damn…don’t know how I missed that one. I absolutely loved his work. He’s definitely missed, as is Butch Guice as well.
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