Greetings and Happy Friday @ModernAgeSupermanClub, and all other fans of high-flying, superheroic fashion!
Whether you liked or loathed it in 1997 or in the years since, 2022 is the 25th anniversary of the controversial costume change that outdid nearly all other controversial costume changes in the 1990s: Superman Blue!
Celebrate a quarter century of the adventure that led to this change in Earth’s Greatest Hero’s attire by checking out the 5-part tale below:
Things to energetically chit-chat about:
Have you read this story, or was it new to you?
What do you think of Superman’s snazzy new outfit?
Anything else that comes to mind regarding this suit and period of the Triangle Era.
That’s the high-flying adventure for this week! Enjoy, uper-fans!
In my four eyes, it doesn’t deserve nearly the amount of it gets.
I think most people just roll their eyes at the suit and say “Pass!”, instead of being open-minded and giving something new a chance before passing judgment on it.
QFT.
I’ve loved the suit since I first read about it in an issue of Starlog in 1997. An issue where, if memory serves, Bruce Timm said (with regards to its chances of appearing in STAS) something to the effect of “Whatever they do in the comics, our Superman will still wear the classic suit.”
I’d really love to see a DCAU take on Superman Blue. I bet it’d be snazzy.
I didn’t read all of the Blue (and Red, more on that in the weeks ahead) stuff until around 2006/'07, as I yoinked all of it from back issue bins.
That was (and remains) one of the absolute best back issue hunts I’ve ever gone on.
My store had that for $15 on the 17th, and I was sorely tempted to snag it. $15 for a 1:25 ratio variant wasn’t too bad (I’ve seen much worse).
But…I’ll be buying World’s Finest in trade (along with the singles, natch), so I figured I’d get it there and save the $15 at the comic shop for something else.
Fine. I’ll get ya a Cheerwine and a burger when you’re out my way. This place about five minutes away. Grass-fed mom and pop place with NEHI (Google).
Oh yeah! I have read it, I use to have a glow in the dark comic when it first came out. When I first heard and saw the blue energy Superman, it really caught my interest and collected every story except for JLA.
Love the new look. But after a few months I started missing the old look, glad I had Superman Adventures comics at the time and watch Superman The Animated Series.
I did like Superman Blue and Superman Red storyline, I even had a toy of them.
Things to energetically chit-chat about:
Have you read this story, or was it new to you?
What do you think of Superman’s snazzy new outfit?
Anything else that comes to mind regarding this suit and period of the Triangle Era.
uper-fans!
it gets.
