The *poles* have the opposite charges. Maybe Morrison meant that the negative and positive ends were lined up in reversed order (“upside-down,” although I don’t think that’s the correct term), putting the positively charged part of the moon facing the positively charged part of the Earth. Earth’s pole would be – +. The moon’s pole would be its opposite, + -.

(In fairness, for all we know GM’s script may have had it right and someone at DC thought it was a mistake and “fixed” it. Such things happen. Julie Schwartz would never have allowed such an easily-corrected mistake to slip past.)

And Grant, stuck with this mess, usually made it work. The scene from JLA#6 was cool (I think I know what’s coming for issue #7) but still, when Supes was back to full Superman powers, Grant really had some cool things with that (see issue #26 where in Supes uses his super senses to figure out what’s up with the UItramarines. Couldn’t do that with Electric Blue Superman. No, sir.)

I still can’t get over that I have…every issue…..of the Superman titles with…that….argh! !@#$%!!!

Upon being told that Superman no longer had his super-strength he simply wrote this one, which for me works a lot better.

Honestly, I think that is why Morrison keeps getting better as a writer. He is forced to come up with new ideas to deal with the occasional stupidity of other. Blue Superman was a horrible concept that required Morrison to stretch in order to keep the character iconic.

Contrast that with Alan Moore. I love Moore, but he is in a real rut with his plot devices. There are only so many variations on “Rape-Revenge” that you can do. It worked great in “Miracleman” and added subtext to “Watchmen”. However, it has been progressively less effective every time he hauls it out. The latest LOEG was almost boring, which is something that I’ve never felt about previous Moore comics.

However, it has been a long time since Alan Moore had to please or work with anyone who did not defer to his vision. He has allowed himself to go stale.