It is a pity that you feel that way about your time with Superman. I hope it is a consolation to think about how much that run meant to a lot of people, myself included.

Superman was already my favourite superhero, but when I read Man of Steel and all the rest of your work with the character, it somehow erased in my mind everything that was before; it was like reading the Superman I had always wanted to read.

It is really difficult to explain what it meant to me. I was totally ready to get rid of the superdog, the superhorse, the supermonkey, the supercousin, the superhouse in the Artic and so on and so forth. I loved the idea that Superman was truly the last son of Krypton, but even more so the idea that Superman was born on Earth and didn’t even know about his alien origins until after he became Superman as an adult, the fact that he felt an earthling, that Clark was the real person and not an exhausting façade, his dynamics with Lois, the fact that his parents are alive and well, Luthor as an evil businessman, nobody suspecting he has asecret identity, and a hundred of things more that made the stories more thrilling and the character more relatable and inspiring.

But it also happened during a difficult time of my life, and checking the newsstand almost everyweek and buying the last comic was a real treat, one of the highlights in my life back then.

My first post on this forum was to give a detailed explanation of several points I loved of your version of Superman (I wish I could recover that post). That was the main reason why I joined this forum 16 years ago.

(Edited to  correct some format issues)