I'm always surprised to see a Superman title on any list. What made the Jerry Ordway Superman title in the 90's a good read or even a must read in the 90's?

I liked Marz/Banks on Kyle as GL also. Which surprised me. I was all for the next generations of heroes replacing the originals. But I usually hated it when it came out of nowhere. For example : I hated Jean Paul Valley replacing Bruce but if Dick had become the new Batman I would have been excited. I would have been OK with Donna becoming Wonder Woman. Roy becoming Green Arrow. And so on. Wally as Flash was the best example on how to do it. I HATED DC making Hal evil but I did enjoy Kyle as GL. I would have preferred John Stewart as GL but Marz did a good job making Kyle relevant.

Kyle appealed to me, out of the sheer fact that I have never like what I had read of Hal. I still don't really like Hal. Depending on the story I'm either indifferent to him, or bored. However not knowing much of the back ground of Hal as GL, for me is his role in Kyle being GL and then on into Final Night, worked for me.

I liked Conner Hawke as GA at the time too. And the team ups of GL, GA and sometimes even Superboy really were good solid stories showcasing new heroes for those mantles. I never read any of WW and not much of Flash at the time. I bought some Flash for Salvador Larroca's art, but knowing nearly nothing about the characters, I did not stick with it very long.

John is easily my second favorite GL. And until he started appearing in the GL title at the time, I had only ever read Cosmic Odyssey with him in it. But I really liked what they did with him in GL then.

90's DC was and has pretty much maintained being my favorite time for multiple different characters. I liked the new blood, and the old coming back in one way or another.

Edit: I liked Jean Paul as Azreal. The Sword of Azreal is a great story, in my opinion. And probably even the peak of Knightfall, if you even consider it so. But what they did with Jean Paul as Batman was such a abomination of his character as Azrael for SoA that I was turned off to pretty much most of Knightsend/Quest. I don't know why they created a character when, like you said, Dick would have been available to fill the role. And much more suited. But I guess, if anything, Jean Paul's zeal making him more malicious and blood-thirsty, at least was an abject lesson, for the lack of being a wordsmith, for Bruce to never fall down that path himself. (Not that he necessarily needed the reminder per say.)

I wish DC would do a 12 issue series with the original Titans stepping into their mentor's roles & Kyle & Conner replacing GL & GA.

Barry Windsor-Smith - Marvel Comics Presents



Jim Shooter - Magnus Robot Fighter



Neil Gaiman - Miracleman



Jim Shooter - Solar Man of the Atom



Timothy Truman - The Spider

Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez - Love and Rockets



Mike Allred - Madman



David Michelinie - Rai



Dennis Eichhorn - Real Stuff



Anton Drek (Don Simpson) - Wendy Whitebread, another guilty pleasure

What's the concept on Rai. What's your opinion on this series?