be writing a new title of Superman.

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Great. If he goes his DCU proper route, more pretentious, community college philosophizing and disjointed, boring plots. Or if he goes the All-Star route, a bunch of super-compressed (read rushed), character-less, boring stories for ADD'd, easily impressed kiddies and the bewildering Eisner lot.

I'll pass.

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be writing a new title of Superman.

Dave M.... will be dancing in the street till dark. Metaphorically speaking.

It's the best news I've heard Superman-wise in a long time as Morrison really understands the character as Icon and leader of the pack.
I think I'd prefer one of the main books rather than an out of canon one but overall it's a very exciting press release from DC, some genuinly exciting creative teams and a few 'Dream teams' even, hope it doesn't turn to mush and a quick way for DC to make a buck - Change on this scale is good only if you're dead serious about it. I don't know if Superman in particular could survive another shambolic halfhearted reworking and I don't like the talk of a newer trendy costume either. Go the whole way DC and be firm about it, please. This sounds like it could end up as another Heroes Reborn fiasco...

Hey, Heroes Reborn sold a lot of issues. Grant Morrison's writing confuses me a bit sometimes, so I have to pay attention, but even though I'm a Marvel guy I can see myself reading this and/or the Justice League book he's doing with Jim Lee. Hey, Jim Lee worked on Heroes Reborn, too.

My bet is Superman will be single again. No matter how they do it, it won't be as bad as the Marvel did. Hey, to be honest (again as a Marvel guy) I don't think it can possibly be that bad. I don't get the JMS love from these companies. He wasn't a Spider-man writer, which was obvious after five years. Then they let him destroy the character. I'm not exagerrating. He destroyed the guy.

This doesn't sound too bad actually.

How about third option?

That he will write and portry Supes as being essentially PC Supes again, and be creative in the Villains and stories?

More of a "Cosmic" Superman? Dealing with handling things like Aliens/gods/devils etc?

A Superman who is needed to handle the "Super bad stuff?"

That's the Superman I expect from Morrison actually, you look to his work on the character and Superman was always impressive. I don't know what control he will actually have and it does worry me as the current Superman editor has said pointblank in Q&A's he doesn't like a Superman who is that Uber and dominating, I think it says everything that the best Superman showing of the last six years have actually come from outside the two main Superman books.

Where the story content is concerned I'm hoping for a nice mix of life in Metropolis mixed with semi-cosmic stuff in the vein of pre-crisis Superman. I do feel he should be seen dealing with the threats no other hero would be equipped to deal with.
I have a feeling this reboot won't last long, it seems geared to promoting DCs digital sales and finding sales by that route and I hope it works. But the problems such a massive reboot would create in the longterm and the fact most of DCs creators (Geoff Johns) have worked hard on bringing consistency, tradition and continuity back into the DCU rule against this being permanent and all-encompassing.

I Look forward to some genuinly satisfying and ambitious work from Morrison and Co.