Trentus Magnus Punches Reality

In this week's ball-depowering episode, Magnus was in a Byrne Age Superman mood and decided to geek out over two of the better issues from John Byrne's era: Adventures of Superman #440 and Superman #19. In these glory days, there were only two Superman-centric titles coming out each month to Byrne, Jerry Ordway and the other talents leading Superman into Post-Crisis glory knew they had to make with the awesome every single month. The end result is one of the all-time greatest yet sadly most-underappreciated eras of Superman's entire publishing history. On the rare occasion that most snooterati jerkface hipsters deign to notice Superman's existence, Doomsday invariably comes up... and it's high time those fecal-spewing misanthropes sat down, shut up and learned from their betters. To get back on the subject though, what's so amazing about these specific issues? Nothing. They simply carry on the well-established trend of awesomeness in Superman comics, month in and month out. All due respect to the triangle num