Delta1938
True King of House of El
Originally posted by JBL
T.h.e w.r.i.t.e.r.s ALL agree that superman and CM are in the same strength class or very close to not make a difference, therefore it is common sense and very easy to put one and one together that one CANNOT have dynamic strength that would place one above the other or his many peers, equals and those that are stronger. They put them in the same class PERIOD! If superman could by his mental state rise above his peers and equals, then it would make a lie out of every DC and Marvel writer that has him IN THE SAME STRENGTH CLASS as over 20 other characters. Its not the writers...its you. You can never speak for those writers and over-ride them. They know...you want. End of story. The ignore function is next if you keep trying to change what the writers have already established. 😮💨
Interview with Joe Casey, the writer of AOS #594, the very comic you say all Superman had was an animalistic mind state not his powers increasing.
RC: Are Superman's powers more related to mental state than solar energy absorption? Joe Casey: I'd say both.
So his powers are related to his mental state, not just his solar energy absorption, under Joe Casey. Oh, and this.
RC: What was your guiding philosophy for working with Superman as a character of The Adventures of Superman? JOE CASEY: I've always seen Superman as this completely over-the-top, fantastic character who has *no* limits whatsoever. He's an icon, an idea, a concept... and I didn't want to spend time adhering to Handbook-style stats when it came to his abilities. * * * * * Pardon? Superman has no limits whatsoever? Yeah, right. And he’s "millions of times stronger than Thor," too. I learned my lesson the last time: Pros can be just like fans … in love with their favorite characters and prone to demonstrating that love by speaking in poetic, larger-than-life terms about the objects of their affection. It’s happy, harmless hyperbole—there’s nothing odious about it, it’s endearing, actually. But it’s not to be taken literally, right? I’m mean, sure, Casey did tell me that, when it comes to Superman, "Let's just say Superman gets one helluva power upgrade when *I'm* writing his adventures," but there’s still gotta be a limit, yeah? I mean, come on … with no limits, Superman would be unbeatable, but that can’t be what Casey meant, can it? I mean, even Casey’s most powerful incarnation of Superman—the one who went mentally AWOL in ADVENTURES 594 and then tore through an army of previously-unbeatable foes "with little resistance"—even that Superman has his limits, right? So, I started thinking up names—names of characters who, according to this guy or that gal or the hermie over there, could certainly give even that Superman a defeat (even if I, personally, didn’t think so). And then I asked Casey point blank: "Who can beat Superman when he goes into that unconscious ‘Probe-busting mode’ as he did in ADVENTURES 594?" And then I threw out the names, and assumed he’d think I was just being silly: RC: Juggernaut? Doomsday? Galactus? No one short of Imperiex himself? * * * * * And then he laid down the law, simple as that. * * * * * JOE CASEY: At that point, Superman is unbeatable. Had he not snapped out of it when Doomsday got fried, he might’ve been able to stop Imperiex right then and there.
So, Joe Casey said that, had he not been shocked out of the mental state he was in, he very well might have beaten Imperiex Prime then and there. Yes, the opinion of one writer, but it proves you wrong. Joe Casey indeed did have Superman's powers increase.
http://www.comicboards.com/joecasey-rc.php
I shouldn't NEED to pull-out stuff like this because the comic speaks for itself to competent debaters, but you're wrong.