Quote: Doc.Mid-Nite said: It wasn't that Byrne really did anything new with the Superman mythos, he just put his own spin on it. DC decided to reboot everything, not Byrne. DC and Superman's editors decided to take him in a new direction, they just hired Byrne to write it. Superman's editors decided to depower him so that he would have more Golden Age type power levels (only faster than a speeding bullet, only more powerful than a locomotive, but they kept his ability to fly), not Byrne. It was Jack Kirby who introduced Cadamus, The Guardian, and The Newsboy Legion to the Superman mythos (Jimmy Olsen and The Newsboy Legion) during the Silver Age, not Byrne after Crisis. It was Seigel and Shuster who created Superman's sole weakness (green K) and Silver Age writers who created other forms of Kryptonite, so green K being Superman's only weakness is a Golden Age idea, not Byrne's.
Here's another question. When Byrne wrote MoS he chose to use certain pre-Crisis elements. But what makes the elements Byrne chose for MoS better than the elements he didn't?
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