The Man of Steel (comics) The title of the series was used once again in 1991 when DC gave Superman a fourth on-going monthly comic book, "". It was also used for the rebooted film franchise of Superman in the 2013 origin story film, "Man of Steel". The dystopian view of Krypton in "Man of Steel" is also heavily influenced by John Byrne's mini series in which they screwed up their ecology and they don't have natural child birth. The Man of Steel (comics) The Man of Steel is a 1986 comic book limited series featuring the DC Comics character Superman. Written and drawn by
Superhero fiction Gail Simone has coined the term "Women in Refrigerators" (named after an incident in "Green Lantern" #54 where Kyle Rayner's girlfriend Alex DeWitt is murdered by the supervillain Major Force and stuffed into Rayner's refrigerator) to refer to this practice. Many works of superhero fiction occur in a shared fictional universe, sometimes (as in the cases of the DC and Marvel Universes) establishing a fictional continuity of thousands of works spread over many decades. Changes to continuity are also common, ranging from small changes to established continuity, commonly called retcons, to full reboots, erasing all previous continuity. It is also