When did you realize Superman is a genuinely great hero and not boring...

When did you realize Superman is a genuinely great hero and not boring? For me it's when I read/watched some of his slightly less mainstream stuff and realized (somewhat in hindsight) how fun pulp sci-fi his mythos really are, with all the mad scientists, evil robots, alien conquerors, cyborgs, shrunken cities, sidekick aliens, frequent trips to spehss, etc. That combined with his level of strength usually being nowhere near as ridiculous as it's commonly said to be, and him being basically a normal goodhearted dude who likes beef bourguignon, football, and Metallica, who is totally willing to ice a villain if he needs to.

Far better than what Superfags would like you to believe about him being basically Jesus in the sense of being omni-benevolent, nigh-omniscient, and nigh-omnipotent, with like two villains who can actually fight him and even then only when he's holding back.

Since forever.

Granted, I was never an edgelord.

If you are into try-hard characters and cheap drama, Superman isn't for you.

I wasn't an edgelord either, I just believed the Superfag memes when they kept reposting the same six pages of Superman saving someone from suicide and holding a blackhole.

>When did you realize Superman is a genuinely great hero and not boring?
When I was 8 watching the first episode of Superman The Animated Series.
So basically the first time I ever saw Superman

Exactly the same here

>When did you realize Superman is a genuinely great hero and not boring?

STAS

The advantage of Timm being a flaming Batfag is that he's never felt any obligation to write Superman as a flawless paragon, but a person with flaws and thoughts and feelings beyond allegory.

He's a fundamentally decent and good person, but he's still a person. This is why the "You just hate Cavill Superman because he has FLAWS" lunatics are so ridiculous, one of the most famous versions of the fucking character is flawed and plenty of people loved him.

Honestly I was pretty lukewarm on Supes until I started to do reading to catch up for Doomsday Clock. I was expecting stale tired superman stories but they had me hooked.

Newfag as fuck, huh?

I actually was an edge lord back then and I still liked him. I think what made me really like Supes was when I borrowed a copy of Superman: For All Seasons from my school library.

All Star Superman. I never really hated the guy, didn't seem to interested in him, but Conveniently enough around the same time I started liking John Cena I picked up the All Star Superman movie and things just lined up for me. After that, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Red Son, The Nail (Though didn't like that as much), Really fell in with DC after All Star, though.

I'm not sure its possible to grow up in a small town where people don't think the internet and television are the be all and end all of things - my parents were big readers and they traded all sorts of things (my dad like pulp western and detective novels, of example) with other families. So without spending a dime, assortment of comic books would come into our homes, which I how I discovered Superman and then we rented the Donner movie.

Fortunately none of the comics that were being passed around were 90s style or things like Identity Crisis or Diana snaps Max's stories. Once I got to college, comics were things like Sandman and other Vertigo or Dark Horse titles and the college library carried some things (but again, we're talking Sandman, Maus). I got back into comics after reading All Star Superman in the absolute edition at a friend's house and haven't really look back. Superman is really the only book I read every week at the moment, although I'm reading a bunch of other things (for example, just started re-reading Book of Magic - which I had never fully read).

Watched the animated series, read American Alien, Truth Justice and the American Way and For All Seasons. Also not the best but I read some Superboy and fell in love with Smallville (the location, not the show)

A mix of both Man of Steel (seriously) and reaching my mid-twenties and trying to make some changes in my own life amidst a load of family health problems. It also helps that I fucking hate N52/Rebirth and Superdad is one of the few remnants of my beloved Post-Crisis. I also went back and watched the first Reeves movie and, since I last watched it as a child, I was surprised how much subtext for adults I'd missed.

I needed (and still need) the hope and optimism, and genuine kindness and compassion, that Superman embodies in my Sup Forums.

I'll admit there were always seeds. I always liked that Nightwing got his name from Clark. I remember thinking Batman was being particularly dickish in No Mans Land when he turned down Superman's help, and was amused when he used his heat vision to make it rain.

I haven't managed to collect much yet, mosty read it online, but I've a soft spot for First Thunder and Identity Crisis.

>peoples reactions when you mention here that the DCEU made you a Superman fan.

The old Justice League cartoons.

I wore a Superman costume for Halloween in Kindergarten.

When I read Action Comics by Morrison and then by other writers in new52. I feel strongly different of other interpretations of the character like the post-crisis one, I like the Golden Age Supes and like kinda less the Silver Age one.

New 52 Supes for me it was a guy trying his hardest, he is not a god, he is not an idol, he is just a guy trying to do his best. He fails, people hate him, but he never gave up trying.

He is muh supahman

People complained New52 Superman acted like a dick- I still don't know if they simply could not understand the subtext or if they were just whining cunts who didn't even bother reading full stories and decided to base their judgement on single panels

man, just finished re-reading the last 3 issues of morrison AC and holy fuck, there is so much references, informations and shit there, it is really amazing how much content Morrison put there to say this is an amazing love letter to the character, of all ages and times.

Morrison wrote n52 Supes in a totally different way than the other writers, though. You really cannot compare.

Morrison's Supes was impetuous, mostly because he was inexperient and eager to change the world. Lobdell's Superman was a dick.

I like lobdell run too on AC, it feels like a breather between Grant and Pak run, it just simple and fun for me.

Also, BTFO Lois with Diana in the party.

Dropped out of my edgelord phase after high school and my feeling towards became more neutral, someone recommended ASS and the rest is history

Ass is pretty great