SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Part 5)
This time: Lex learns Superman’s identity via time travel! Clark traumatizes a Boy Scouts counselor! Episode 5: "The Big Scoop" Not only is this the nuttiest...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Part 4)
This time: Superman vs. Robo-Jimmy and Robo-Lois! Lil’ Clarkie vs. a hamster! Episode 4: "Cybron Strikes" This episode is named "Cybron Strikes," but they...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Parts 6 and 7)
Today: Superman plays baseball with robots, gets creeped on by General Zod, and... dies?! :O Episode 6: Triple Play At last, we see a villain from the comics...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Part 8)
Another episode of this nutty show, this time featuring Wonder Woman, Lois Lane's seething jealousy, and little Clark Kent's friends being turds to little...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Part 2)
Continuing my look at the 1988 Superman animated show! Once again I wanted to write a short blurb for the episode so I could cover several per post, but...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Part 3)
Continuing our look at the cartoon that merged Post-Crisis Superman concepts with Silver Age Superman insanity, which somehow keeps getting sillier every...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Part 9)
It's a week before Christmas miracle: after an embarrassingly long time, here's another episode of this series! (Check out the previous ones in the archives...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The OTHER Animated Series (Part 1)
The 1988 Superman cartoon series by Ruby-Spears is interesting to me because it has several elements from our beloved '86 to '99 era, like the fact that Lex...
Super Titles Round-Up (May 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (May 1994) This month: Superboy gets animated! Supergirl gets even! Steel gets that cool-ass Jon Bogdanove cover up there! Superboy #4...
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 2 (August 1994)
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 2 (August 1994) The conclusion to our somewhat messy coverage of this crossover, but to be fair, it was kind of a...
Newstime: World Without A Superman Special (May 1993)
Newstime: World Without A Superman Special (May 1993) This is exactly what it looks like: a full-size, Time-esque news magazine (remember those?) that DC...
Superman: The Man of Steel #1 (July 1991)
Superman: The Man of Steel #1 (July 1991) Thus begins my in-depth examination of every fu- wait, whoops, that was the other Man of Steel #1. Sorry. This is...
Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993)
Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993) OVERSIZED ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! Featuring the return of Superman! And Superman! And Superman, and also, Superman! But...
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #4 (September 1994)
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #4 (September 1994) It’s… CRISIS TIME! Listen, we’re not in the habit of covering every issue of every crossover event Superman...
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 1 (July 1994)
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 1 (July 1994) “Worlds Collide” was pretty unusual for a Superman-related crossover event: it only included one of...
Super-Titles Round-Up (January 1994)
Super-Titles Round-Up (January 1994) 1994 was the point when there were officially as many if not more Superman spin-offs, specials, and miniseries out every...
Superman #86 (February 1994)
Superman #86 (February 1994) The most awaited crossover event of 1994: Superman meets the Sun Devils! You know, from that obscure DC comic that ended 10...
Superman: The Man of Steel #37 (September 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #37 (September 1994) Zero Hour is here, and so is Batman! And Batman, and Batman, and Batman, and, yes, even Batman! Clark Kent...
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #1 (April 1994)
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #1 (April 1994) DOOMSDAY IS COMING… BACK! Superman has been having nightmares about Doomsday, which is the natural...
Action Comics #671 (November 1991)
Action Comics #671 (November 1991) “Blackout” Part 2! Amnesiac, shirtless Superman fights dinosaurs! Why does Superman have amnesia? Simple: because a mind-...
Metropolis Mailbag: Triangle numbers?
Anonymous asked: Could you explain how the whole triangle numbers thing works? I understand that in the 1990s there was as many as 5 Superman titles at once,...
Superman '86 to '99 Extra: Erica Durance Saskatoon Expo '22 Panel Transcript!
Art by @donsparrow Our own Don Sparrow had the privilege of hosting a panel centered on Smallville's Erica Durance during this year's Saskatoon Expo and got...
Earth-Prime: Superman & Lois (April 2022)
Earth-Prime: Superman & Lois (April 2022) We're taking another time jump because we couldn't resist talking about Tom Grummett's return to Superman comics!...
Adventures of Superman #424 (January 1987)
Adventures of Superman #424 (January 1987) Terrorist robots from the Middle-Eastern nation of Qurac attack Metropolis, and they seem to be controlled by a...
Action Comics Weekly #642 (March 1989)
Action Comics Weekly #642 (March 1989) Superman gets offered a job as a Green Lant– hey, wait a minute, why are we back in 1989?! Is Zero Hour already...
Superman #84 (December 1993)
Superman #84 (December 1993) Superman takes a short Paris vacation! Like, one day short. What’s the worst that could happen? Oh, man. So, for the past few...
Action Comics #703 (September 1994)
Action Comics #703 (September 1994) The final Zero Hour crossover! Superman visits an alternate timeline where he did what babies would normally do if put on...
Superman: The Man of Steel #29 (January 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #29 (January 1994) Spilled Blood, Finale! The year 1994 starts with one of Superman's most heinous villains: Jimmy Olsen. We open...
The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (November 2022)
The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (November 2022) We take another chronal jump to the future because we CAN’T not talk about this special, which...
Super Titles Round-Up (April 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (April 1994) This month: Superboy fights an elderly person! Supergirl fights herself! Steel fights, uhh, capitalism I guess! Superboy...
Action Comics #649 (January 1990)
Action Comics #649 (January 1990) The Brainiac Trilogy, Last Part! Brainiac debuts a sexy new body, and a sexy new spaceship shaped like his head. As seen in...
Superman '86 to '99 Extra: Tom Grummett Interview!
Superman ‘89 to '99 Extra: Tom Grummett Interview! This week we welcomed two important additions to this blog: Tom Grummett, who joined the Superman titles...
Adventures of Superm-- er, Alpha Centurion #516 (September 1994)
Adventures of Superman Alpha Centurion #516 (September 1994) The effects of Zero Hour get crazier as our hero meets a strange visitor from another reality:...
Justice League America #69 (December 1992)
Justice League America #69 (December 1992) Doomsday beats the CRAP out of the Justice League of America, with one hand tied behind his back. Listen, when I...
Action Comics #648 (December 1989)
Action Comics #648 (December 1989) The Brainiac Trilogy, Part 2: Superman vs. Metallo! And Metallo, and Metallo, and Metallo, and Metallo, and Metallo. They...
Superman #77 (March 1993)
Superman #77 (March 1993) FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, FINALE! Lex Luthor Jr. murders a lady just because he can (Superman is too dead to do anything about it), and...
The Man of Steel #1 (October 1986)
The Man of Steel #1 (October 1986) Thus begins my in-depth examination of every fucking Superman continuity comic between 1986 and 1999 (even the ones that...
Action Comics #681 (September 1992)
Action Comics #681 (September 1992) SUPERMAN AND RAMPAGE ARE GOING TO PUNCH YOU! Assuming your name is Hellgrammite, I mean. (I hope it isn't, that's a...
Adventures of Superman #506 (November 1993)
Adventures of Superman #506 (November 1993) Superman vs. Superboy! I mean, vs. Superman, since the Kid still insists that Superboy is definitely NOT his name...
The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (November 2023)
The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (November 2023) Whoa! Some sort of chronal disturbance has thrown us from 1994 to the futuristic year 2023,...
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #1 (September 1994)
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #1 (September 1994) In this issue: Superman gets punched! The real villain is revealed! And, oh yeah, EVERYONE DIES. We open with...
Action Comics Annual #3 (1991)
Action Comics Annual #3 (1991) Hey, remember that time Superman became President of the United States in 2001? What do you mean, you don’t? What are they...
The Man of Steel #6 (December 1986)
The Man of Steel #6 (December 1986) Superman goes to Smallville to visit his adoptive parents and ends up running into his real one: a hologram of Jor-El...
DC Retroactive: Superman - The '90s (October 2011)
DC Retroactive: Superman - The ‘90s (October 2011) Wait, why are we talking about a comic from 2011 if the blog is still in 1994?! Because this was part of...
Justice League Spectacular #1 & Justice League America #61 (April 1992)
Justice League Spectacular #1 & Justice League America #61 (April 1992) Spinning out of "Panic in the Sky": the new Justice League of America! Now with more...
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #2 (September 1994)
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #2 (September 1994) Zero Hour continues! The action ramps up as a central character dies, the Team Titans go bad, and everyone else...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman 64: The Lost Levels (Part 2)
The second and final part of this freaking frustrating game… but it’s all worth it for the wacky Mxyzptlk level. Level 4: Dam OF COURSE this game has an...
Superman 1993 Annuals
Superman 1993 Annuals A bunch of aliens who look like bodybuilder xenomorphs come to earth to feast on our delicious spinal fluids. What they don’t know is...
Superman #65 (March 1992)
Superman #65 (March 1992) PANIC IN THE SKY, Part 2 – Superman rounds up a bunch of pals to go beat up Brainiac in space! It's a "League of American Justice-...
World's Finest #1-3 (August-October 1990)
World’s Finest #1-3 (August-October 1990) Or Lex Luthor v. the Joker: Dawn of JERKstice. Superman and Batman teaming up is old hat by now, but this is the...