New Year's Resolution
This is my new year's resolution. Actually, it's a 5-year resolution.
This project started a few years ago when I had stopped reading new comics for a few years. I had been a Superman fan all my life, but that changed when DC rebooted their universe with the New 52 in 2011. When DC ended their long-running Action Comics and Superman books in favor of new #1's, I decided that was a good stopping point.
It was hard to quit my weekly habit of going to the comic store for my Superman fix, but then it occurred to me that even if I wasn't buying the new books there were still thousands of published Superman stories which I hadn't read yet. I already had a complete run of the comics starting in 1999 to the final issues in 2011, plus scattered runs in the 90's before that.
Over the years, I finally accumulated every issue from where "my" version of Superman began in 1986, following DC's housecleaning mega-crossover: Crisis on Infinite Earths. Post-Crisis Superman was the character I knew and loved, who had died and risen again, and later married Lois Lane. At its peak, post-Crisis Superman was a tightly-written, never-ending weekly story line that ran through four concurrent titles. What happened in Superman comics was essentially what was happening in the DC universe in any given week. While DC has since tried to correct course from their New 52 misfires, post-Crisis Superman is probably something that can never truly happen again.
Altogether, the complete post-Crisis Superman (including all tie-ins) totals over 1,100 individual issues and fills 7 comic boxes. Most of these comics are new to me, but even many of the ones I owned already haven't been read in years. I gave up trying to read the new books as I bought them, promising myself that I would go through the full 25-year run after I collected it. Midlife Post-Crisis is the fulfillment of this promise to myself. Starting at the beginning with his new origin in the Man of Steel mini-series, I'm going to read a month's worth of comics every week for the next five years.
This project started a few years ago when I had stopped reading new comics for a few years. I had been a Superman fan all my life, but that changed when DC rebooted their universe with the New 52 in 2011. When DC ended their long-running Action Comics and Superman books in favor of new #1's, I decided that was a good stopping point.
It was hard to quit my weekly habit of going to the comic store for my Superman fix, but then it occurred to me that even if I wasn't buying the new books there were still thousands of published Superman stories which I hadn't read yet. I already had a complete run of the comics starting in 1999 to the final issues in 2011, plus scattered runs in the 90's before that.
Altogether, the complete post-Crisis Superman (including all tie-ins) totals over 1,100 individual issues and fills 7 comic boxes. Most of these comics are new to me, but even many of the ones I owned already haven't been read in years. I gave up trying to read the new books as I bought them, promising myself that I would go through the full 25-year run after I collected it. Midlife Post-Crisis is the fulfillment of this promise to myself. Starting at the beginning with his new origin in the Man of Steel mini-series, I'm going to read a month's worth of comics every week for the next five years.
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