quote:Originally posted by Snapman: I guess you have a point. I wouldn't think anything was wrong, but on the other hand, if DC released Superman Archives around the time of Byrne's Man of Steel, it probably would have overshadowed what he was attempting to do.
And that's my problem with this whole thing. It's not that DC's reissuing the Byrne material. That was inevitable no matter what. It's the timing I object to. If you're putting out a miniseries retelling Superman's beginnings and then turn around and reissue an older version of the story in TPB at the exact same time as the new miniseries, doesn't that pretty much render the new version useless? Couldn't DC have released the Byrne material earlier on or even after Birthright ran its course, to make sure there wouldn't be any conflict between the two versions? The way things stand now, there's no real reason for Birthright to exist. People could just pick up the Byrne version and bypass Waid's story without a second thought.
Like I said, the timing is beyond stupid. Byrne's version didn't have to worry about any other competing versions. Why should Waid's have to? The whole situation is ridiculous.
