15 Years Ago, DC’s Greatest Writer Gave Superman the Best Book of a Hated Era (and It Still Holds Up)
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Update time : 2026-03-09 15:53:04
Superman is in a great place right now, but it’s taken a long time to get there. The history of the Man of Steel is one of the most interesting in comics. For decades, he was the most popular superhero of them all, but he’d eventually lose his spot on the top as Marvel overtook DC. Crisis on Infinite Earths gave us the first major changes to the character, and in the last 41 years we’ve gotten several different versions of the hero as the publisher has rebooted their universe numerous times. In 2011, we got the biggest change to the Man of Steel, and to DC Comics, in years: the New 52. The New 52 restarted the DC Multiverse, and Superman got a new origin and world. However, fans were given a reason to believe that things were about to be amazing for the first superhero because the publisher put their greatest writer on a book that was positioned as one of the flagships of the line: Grant Morrison on Action Comics. Things looked very bright for the hero and his fans. However, in 2026, we know how it all turned out; the New 52 is one of the worst eras of Superman ever. Morrison’s Action Comics run still stands up as one of the greatest Superman series ever, though.
