I have three sub-folders in my Ads sub-folder in the Images sub-folder of my Superman folder on my hard drive.

As I look at that sentence I realize is sounds weird. Not “we shouldn’t talk to this guy anymore” weird. Just, “why are you so anal-retentive about the way you organize the files on your hard drive” weird.

It is what it is.

Anyway, I have three folders in the Ads folder of the Images folders. One for pre-Crisis, one for post- Crisis and one for post-Infinite Crisis. By far the post- Crisis folder has the most images, but that’s what happens when you scan images as you go while hosting a show about that era. The pre-Crisis folder has a fair number of images but it pales in comparison to the post-Crisis. Then there’s the post-Infinite Crisis folder, which has maybe ten images in it.

This is one of them.

Despite having my previously mentioned problems with this era of Superman while it was happening (problems which have mostly gone away) I was excited for this title when it was coming out. Greg Rucka was coming back to Superman and he was going to be working with James Robinson. Two of my favorite writers working on my favorite character. And it was another Superman title at a time when Superman only had two.

You can tell I come from the generation where Superman had four to five regular titles when I’m complaining about him only having two.

The art in this ad is great. Superman basking in the glow of being among his people for the first time. It also looks like he’s in the middle of his “I want” song in the musical version of World of New Krypton. A mix of out Out There from The Hunchback of Notre Damme and Corner of the Sky from Pippin. And he is just belting it out and this image is taken right at the end when he’s holding that final note for seemingly forever. This is the Moment on steroids. If it’s live theater he’s center stage as the ensemble performs the last part of the dance choreography behind him. If it’s the movie version there is a bunch of cuts to various parts of New Krypton ending on a full shot of Superman.

It’s so clear in my head it’s like it’s happening in front of me right now.

Maybe it’s time to start going through my post-Infinite Crisis and New 52 books and finding more images to scan.

And now I want to listen to This is the Moment from Jekyll and Hyde.

More to follow…