Superman, we’ve been told, is a difficult character to get right. If you believe the comics press (and we’ve been guilty of this ourselves from time to time), nobody has done right by Big Blue in years, and the Silver Age Superman remains the unchallenged beacon of light from which everything shines.Mark Waid, who worships at the altar of the pre-Crisis Superman, has been widely credited as one of the most influential Superman creators of the last twenty years in spite of never having had a significant run on any of the character’s ongoing monthly titles, while long-running creators like John Byrne, Marv Wolfman and Jerry Ordway get no end of heat for being part of “The Nineties.”And the standard-bearer of Superman on film is Christopher Reeve, whose last great outing as the character came in 1980.
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