@el bandito loco you clearly know more about Superman than is healthy so I have to ask, what's the best or really goodish "mundane" Superman story? As in not one of the Famous Big Name Important Ones everyone always references like What Ever Happened To or whatever, but a regular issue or TPB/arc off the rack that you absolutely love because it's definitely awesome and would recommend to anyone who wants a cool Supes book to read?
Man there's tons of them but most are uncollected in favor of recollecting the same like 4 books over and over. A favorite period of mine is Joe Kelly on Action Comics. 783 is one I like a lot, it's got wonky ass early 00s cartoon art but it's a good issue. Its right after worlds at war so the earth is fucked after an intergalactic war and half of the dialogue boxes are an article Clark is writing about hopelessness and shit and the other half are him as Superman talking to someone.
It kinda depends on what you're looking for though, if you want like some Superman as badass shit, honestly I'd tell you to go read JLA Power and Glory. its got some cool moments in it.
There's a ton of good early 90s stuff too but its mostly in uncollected limbo. if you like goofier bronze age stuff almost any issue by Elliot Maggin is pretty good, him and Cary Bates pulled some good material out of an otherwise mostly stupid period.
A lot of my favorite stuff from the 80s to today is sort of sandwiched in uncollected periods and sort of makes little sense without the surrounding things. If you wanted a longer read I'm A huge fan of Exile in particular (its the post crisis Warworld introduction from the late 80s) and the city of tomorrow period has fun stuff in it from the early 00s.
In the early 2010s dc did some reprints called DC Comics Presents Superman that were some early 2000s stuff that never made it to trade, outside of the doomsday one, and sole survivor which both suck, those are worth tracking down. One of them has the Superman vs Dracula issue which is hysterical and worth it for the way it wraps up alone.
Yep, hurting his dog made perfect sense but that would be too evil in current year, hence why it's safe edgy at best. I'm a dog owner and that dog was terrible and embarrassing for anyone who knows about the topic (just like the rest of the movie!).
Yeah the movie made me realize James Gunn is probably an irresponsible dog owner lol with an untrained bad dog who probably acts out bc its ignored otherwise.
Sorry, I was joking there.
It felt like they made Krypto Kara's dog to justify why he's so uncontrollable, only to give audiences a bad first impression of Supergirl as a reckless alcoholic before her own movie hits theaters.
I know, I really just wanted an excuse to complain about Krypto because I haven't really. I'm sure you're rjght, I just hate that we have to take ANOTHER thing away from Superman they flat out can't make a Superman movie without shitting on him.
