Compared the Silver Age Superman to the modern one over 48 issues and the old guy just had way more heart

I spent the last 3 months reading through both eras side by side and the golden age Superman actually gave a damn about regular people instead of just punching alien gods, has anyone else found the newer stuff just feels like action scenes with no soul?

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phoenixw111mo ago

Yeah the old stuff had that human touch for sure. Silver Age Supes would stop to help a kid with a bike chain or talk some random guy out of jumping off a bridge, not just toss a skyscraper into space while brooding. Modern writers got so caught up making him look cool and powerful they forgot the character used to actually feel warm and relatable.

spencer_park261mo ago

Heard a cool interview with a writer once who said the whole point of Superman was that he was supposed to make you feel safe, not impressed. Silver Age stories got that, (and honestly they had way less pressure to sell toys and movies back then). It's a shame modern takes sometimes miss that simple warmth in favor of making him look tough.

spencer_owens581mo ago

Started doing the same thing last year, grabbed a big stack of silver age reprints on ebay for cheap. What really hit me was how often Supes would just show up in some random person's living room to chat about their problems, like he was a neighbor checking in. The modern stuff has him flying through space fighting cosmic entities but the old comics had him sitting on a park bench next to a guy who lost his job, that just hit different.