Superman Returns!

Superman: Lois and Clark #1 by Dan Jurgens and Lee Weeks

Yes, yes, YES!!  Thank you DC!!!

The best Superman announcement from DC Comics today came not from the Man of Steel's own panel but from IGN who revealed that in October DC will be publishing three spin offs from Convergence.  On October 14th Dan Jurgens and Lee Weeks, the team behind Convergence: Superman, will launch Superman: Lois and Clark #1!

"Following the epic events of CONVERGENCE, here are the adventures of the last son and daughter of Krypton and Earth as they try to survive in a world not their own.  But can they keep this world from suffering the same fate as their own?  Can this Superman stop the villains he once fought before they are created on this world?  What is Intergang, and why does Lois's discovery of it place everyone she loves in jeopardy?  And what will happen when their nine-year-old son learns the true identity of his parents?"

At the end of Convergence pre-Flashpoint Superman (along with Lois and their new born son, Jonathan) teamed up with Zero Hour Hal Jordan and Pre-Crisis Flash and Supergirl on a mission to save stop the multiverse from being destroyed in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths.  We never see what happens, we are only told they succeed.  Personally I assumed they just returned to their rightful time/world and picked up where they left off but that clearly wasn't what happens.  Instead it seems they found a new, younger, world to call home.

I am so over the moon to hear about this series!  As much as I enjoy the New 52/DC You Superman, the post-Crisis/pre-Flashpoint version of Superman is my Superman.  He's the one I grew up on and whose adventures I followed for year.  His death and return, his marriage, his time as a being of pure energy, Superman Red/Superman Blue, Superman Forever.  This is my Superman.

Dan Jurgens and Lee Weeks did an incredible job on the Convergence: Superman series (personally I preferred it to the main series) and Dan is a Superman legend so I couldn't be happier to see them continue Superman's adventures in this new series.

Thank you DC, thank you!