There’s a golden age in every run where every comics reader has hope for a new direction of storytelling. Then there’s a period of time where they see that direction struggle and realize that maybe this run won’t be everything they hoped it would be. Superman: The One Who Fell by Phillip Kennedy Johnson is a mediocre set of two different stories: “The Golden Age” and “The One Who Fell,” which is convoluted and confusing. Together, Phillip Kennedy Johnson has called them “a personal letter to his son.” But in focusing on that personal letter, Johnson often struggles to make the main story similarly compelling and enjoyable.
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Pencils by Phil Hester (“Golden Age”) and Scott Godlewski (“The One Who Fell”)
Inks by Eric Gapstur (“Golden Age”)
Colors by Hi-Fi (“Golden Age”) and Gabe Eltaeb (“The One Who Fell”)
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was announced as Morrison’s final DC work. 
series and finally bringing Superman into the 21st century. This new take on the character would arrive in the 2003 miniseries 
, created by writer Mark Waid along with artists Lenil Francis Yu, Gerry Alanguilan, and Dave McCaig. While the 12-issue miniseries celebrates and modernizes a number of points from the Man of Steel’s history, Waid and his team also used Birthright to redefine the character of Superman; examining his identity in a new, more cynical era, and how it shapes him, his chosen family, and eventually the world at large.
for the character’s 75th anniversary? Remember how it was unceremoniously demoted to a nine issue miniseries (over the course of eighteen months) because by the end no one much cared, and now it’s almost entirely forgotten? Have you ever really let that set of facts sit in your head in all its plain absurdity?