Superman has seen plenty of revisionist origin stories over the years, from John Byrne's Man of Steel to Mark Waid and Leinil Yu's Birthright to Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Secret Origin.

Leinil Francis Yu started his career in the world of work-for-hire comics, illustrating several Wolverine stories in the late '90s. In that environment, he became a superstar, drawing high-profile ...

It also cemented Jim Lee as the archetypal modern Superman artist. Superman: Birthright was ironically only the second book to give an exact "play-by-play" of Superman's origin story, and it ...

Waid calls back to his and artist Leinil Francis Yu's retelling of Superman's origin in the 2004 limited series Superman: Birthright and its core take on the characters of Superman's world.