

Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and All-Star Superman In 15 Jonathan C. rather than DC - it was one of those things where a new movie was coming out, and they didn't want some kind of distraction in the press along the lines of there being a "new" or "changed" Superman in the comics. Superman did for Nietzsche's idea of the bermensch, a more persuasive and. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, All-Star Superman (New York: 202 Part II: Thematic.

The reason it was changed back was because the film was coming out at the time, and I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it was a decision that came from Warner Bros. While Superman is the guardian who represents the pinnacle of human.

And I daresay if I'd pressed Grant, I would have got some philosophical rant, but I didn't! So I showed him what I'd come up with and it was exactly the same as he had in his notebook. The reason behind the simplified insignia was Grant - he'd wanted to simplify the Superman "S" slightly, and asked me to increase the size of the "S" within the shield so that there'd be no other bits of yellow aside from two small "tadpole" shapes. Here, from a great Frank Quietly interview with Seb Patrick at Den of Geek, is why the change was made and why it was changed back:
