Welcome to the 915th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, learn of the surprising impact that John Byrne’s Man of Steel Superman reboot had upon the creation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.One of the interesting aspects of John Byrne’s famous Man of Steel reboot of Superman in 1986 is that I think people tend to forget that it was not like Superman had not gone through similar reboots over the years, it’s just that the Byrne reboot was the most sweeping in terms of instant changes. However, for all Byrne’s instant changes to the Superman mythos, it barely affected the general approach to the character. For instance, I think that a reader of Superman in 1946 suddenly reading Superman in 1966 would be in for a much more dramatic alteration of the character than a reader going from a 1966 Superman story to a 1986 Superman story.Something that I think is also overlooked a bit when it comes to Byrne’s reboot of Superman is that while I am not saying that Byrne did not believe that Superman was overpowered, it is important to note that what he kept coming back to was the fact that he felt that the AUDIENCE believed that.
Welcome to the 915th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, learn of the surprising impact that John Byrne’s Man of Steel Superman reboot had upon the creation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.
One of the interesting aspects of John Byrne’s famous Man of Steel reboot of Superman in 1986 is that I think people tend to forget that it was not like Superman had not gone through similar reboots over the years, it’s just that the Byrne reboot was the most sweeping in terms of instant changes. However, for all Byrne’s instant changes to the Superman mythos, it barely affected the general approach to the character. For instance, I think that a reader of Superman in 1946 suddenly reading Superman in 1966 would be in for a much more dramatic alteration of the character than a reader going from a 1966 Superman story to a 1986 Superman story.
Something that I think is also overlooked a bit when it comes to Byrne’s reboot of Superman is that while I am not saying that Byrne did not believe that Superman was overpowered, it is important to note that what he kept coming back to was the fact that he felt that the AUDIENCE believed that.
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