Close Search Superman: Lois and Clark, One of the Best Superman Stories of the Decade, Feels Very Current Right Now In late 2015, with the Rebirth publishing initiative looming in the near future, DC launched Superman: Lois and Clark, a comic that, at the time, confused some people. The comic featured what was, at the time, an alternate version of Superman and Lois, living in wedded bliss on a remote farm while raising a ten-year-old son. Launching four years after the company's New 52 line-wide publishing reboot, which had refreshed its heroes to younger versions with less backstory, the decision to restore the pre-New 52 Superman and Lois could have been seen as simply embracing the multiverse -- something that writers and editors had repeatedly promised they would eventually get around to during the relaunch, but hadn't yet.