Comments on: Superman (2006-2011)

By: bluedevil2002

bluedevil2002 — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:07:05 +0000

They would go before Reign of Doomsday. That’s where Superman was returning from in Action #900. If I were including those issues, I would put them between New Krypton 5 and the Lex book.

By: Pocok

Pocok — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 02:09:34 +0000

And what about Superman 701-714 ending issues? Are they after or before Reign of Doomsday?

By: MichaelLachmanWrites

MichaelLachmanWrites — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:40:07 +0000

What about the World’s Finest miniseries by Gates? Where does it take place? It’s mentioned later in the Supergirl comics (in the New Krypton aftermath issues, I think).

By: Derek Cleveland

Derek Cleveland — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:01:13 +0000

I have a question about the Last Son run. Is there an issue missing? There is one panel that shows batman, green lantern, super girl and power girl captured by zod. Was there a justice League or batman issue to explain this? It seems like it would fit well between Clarks imprisonment in the Phantom zone and his escape.

By: bluedevil2002

bluedevil2002 — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:04:42 +0000

The Adventure Comics was also clearly labeled as part 3 of New Krypton, and had the last page taking place at the same time as the end of part 2, beginning of part 4.

By: Xylob the Destroyer

Xylob the Destroyer — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:31:12 +0000

Interesting perspective.
To each their own.
I find you placement of the Adventure Comics Guardian Special three comics after Jimmy Olsen intriguing as it clearly states within the book that it occurs during the Jimmy Olsen book, going so far as to actually provide specific page numbers to put it between.
You’ve addressed various other items here, but no mention of that… It seems a bit odd.
I appreciate your time and efforts on providing such a detailed listing with excellent comments addressing the editorial idiocy of DC regarding the continuity (is that a bad word here?) of the books that they labeled with what one should reasonably think is a numbered reading order. You are quite correct, reading them in the order listed on the covers by DC is just no good.
Being the stubborn fool that I am, I will use your awesome list here as a stucture for my own attempts to shoe-horn JLA appearances, Final Crisis, Death of the New Gods, & Blackest Night in.
If I can figure out how to, I may post my own reading order here.
Again, thanks for your list!

By: bluedevil2002

bluedevil2002 — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:48:56 +0000

Most of them don’t really tie into the ongoing Superman saga.

And in a lot of cases with JLA, those issues cause some continuity/chronology problems.

I think most of the Final Crisis related material is suppose to go between the first two New Krypton books. I’m not sure where the Blackest Night tie-ins go, because I’m keeping them separate, and those issues didn’t really have much to do with the overall Superman plotlines at the time.

By: Xylob

Xylob — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:53:33 +0000

what about Superman’s appearances in the Justice League and other books during this period?

By: bluedevil2002

bluedevil2002 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:31:09 +0000

A minor slip up that was pointed out to me — Action #852-854 are the Countdown issues. I know that #851 isn’t, because it’s listed with Last Son. I just mistyped.

By: bluedevil2002

bluedevil2002 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:54:25 +0000

That would be in the map of what comes next. I’m actually planning a separate book for that anyway, with the Superboy story:
#0 (backup)
#1-3 (main stories)
#5 (backup)
#6

(I don’t have #6 yet, so I don’t know what they did with main story and backup). The lead story (reprint) from #0 and backups in #1-4 will go in a Legion volume. The main stories from #4-5 and all of #7 go in Blackest Night.

Somewhere after that, Adventure Comics does start crossing over with the Superman titles.