Comments on: The Reread Reviews — Reign of the Supermen (Part Two)

By: draco

draco — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:15:28 +0000

Although Reign Of The Supermen was my favorite Superman story, I do agree that the Cyborg’s animousity towards Superman was not plausible at all. Although I can see Henshaw being upset about what happened to him and his friends, his reason for hating Superman was not believable.
It is similar to Eddie Brock’s hatred for Spiderman when he became Venom. Although the symbiote’s hatred for Spiderman was believable, Brock’s motivation wasn’t. I think it would have been better in Henshaw’s case that he always had an animousity towards Superman before the accident and that Superman indirectly caused him to be mutated and would fuel his animosity and would make it way more believable.

By: Omni-man

Omni-man — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:34:34 +0000

The best Superman ever would be a cyborg Superman with a mullet AND a leather jacket!

By: Rob Schmidt

Rob Schmidt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:03:58 +0000

What’s cooler than a cyborg Superman? The comics gave you the answer: Superman with a mullet.

By: Mxy

Mxy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:21:02 +0000

To me, the fact that the story is so long only makes it feel more epic. In my mind, “Assault on Motor City” is a great saga in itself.

Also, for some reason I didn’t feel cheated that none of the four Supermen was a real deal (even though as a 7 year old I was absolutely convinced that each of them was telling the truth… I even bought the “Superman’s soul jumped into Steel” theory). Maybe this is because I only got to read the end of the story years later, when I was 12, so I probably already knew what was gonna happen (even though I didn’t follow comics at all in that period).

By: Excronimuss

Excronimuss — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:13:20 +0000

AH YES, Sandy… I wonder whatever happened to him REALLY…

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:52:44 +0000

Ethan — Yeah, I never minded that element of this story and what came after, but, then again, my experience with the character was limited mostly to… well, this.

By: Joe Trent

Joe Trent — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:24:31 +0000

Stephane, you obviously haven’t heard of the Clone Saga, have you?

By: Stephane Savoie

Stephane Savoie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:02:48 +0000

I remember hearing at the time about how the Superman writers were really coming up with a lot of this as they were going along. The replacement supermen was just a way to draw out the story, and even then they weren’t sure how they would bring him back.
In hindsight, they seems absurd. No project could be quite so disorganized, could it?

By: Bryan L

Bryan L — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:47:30 +0000

“It turned out to be a malfunctioning Superman robot that only THOUGHT he was Superman”

You’re right, Eric. That would have been WAY better than the Cyborg origin we actually got. What a missed opportunity.

By: Ethan Shuster

Ethan Shuster — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:50:36 +0000

I personally like, at least in retrospect, how Hal Jordan is basically loitering in this story while getting ready to initiate one or two of the next big DC storylines. The end of the GL Corps and intro of Kyle, and Zero Hour.

I know many fans didn’t like what they did to Hal, and it was part of the big push to “update” a number of characters, but not being a huge fan of GL I appreciated that DC was willing to let a major character snap over a terrible tragedy and turn into a villain. The “possessed by Parallax” thing was a little silly, I thought, though probably inevitable.

By: Gavin Bell

Gavin Bell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:32:28 +0000

The Death/Return of Superman is the only time I’ve really like Superman comics. Superboy and the Last Son of Krypton were by far the best, Steel was okay too. I never liked the cyborg, even before he was the bad guy.

By: Eric TF Bat

Eric TF Bat — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:06:55 +0000

What I liked about the Cyborg Superman was the easter egg they stuck in for long-time readers. There was a Superman comic some years before where Superman believed he was turning into a robot, and parts of his body were clearly robotic. It turned out to be a malfunctioning Superman robot that only THOUGHT he was Superman, but the clever bit is that the Cyborg Superman was robotic in the same places (one side of the head, hand, jaw, etc) so I was quite sure that was the secret origin of the Cyborg.

Having him be Reed Richards was much dumber.