Superman/Action Comics
Should I ever have the opportunity to write Superman, currently supporting two monthly solo books, Action Comics and Superman*, I will of course make a mockery of the priceless opportunity by using only titles featuring words with the prefix "super-." Current ideas:

"Superstar" - Starro the Conqueror is spreading his mind-controlling drones through the crowds at large events. I haven't yet figured out if the events will be the huge arena concerts of some pop idol or the giant self-help seminars of a Dr. Phil stand-in. I know Starro is a villain of the Justice League of America, not specifically Superman, but I love the very idea of a giant starfish being an interstellar despot so much that I'll use it anytime I can. If I'm not allowed to use Starro, I'll just make the pop singer/Dr. Phil guru the brainwashing villain instead of just another dupe.

"Superconductor" - I love that Livewire, a villain from Superman: The Animated Series, has been introduced into the DC Universe, but I found her appearance in a recent issue of Action Comics disappointing. As a sidenote, John Byrne doesn't draw as good a Superman as he used to; his art on 1986's The Man of Steel and the subsequent launch of the new Superman series was vastly superior to his recent work on Action, including the lackluster Livewire issue. Anyway, electrically powered villains abound; so, Livewire might even recruit some superpowered henchmen. Hmmm, maybe a new Revenge Squad...?

"Superficial" - Either Superman versus Bizarro, a flawed clone of the Man of Steel, or Superman versus Ultraman, his evil twin from the antimatter universe. Lots of fighting, and an exploration of the much more than superficial differences between Clark Kent and the many pretenders to his throne.

"Superego" - A journey into the psyche of the Last Son of Krypton (not so "last" anymore since the reintroduction of Supergirl, but whatever) courtesy of an evil, probably alien, psychoanalyst named either The Alienist or Egotripper. Probably The Alienist.

"Supertown" - The story to accompany this title would have to depend on the oft-changed status of New Genesis and the whole Fourth World gang at the time it was written, but I like the idea of establishing a new Supertown hovering above India. I realize "India," isn't a very specific location, but to my mind the New Gods would fit in harmoniously with the polytheism enshrined in Hinduism and the ethnic, economic, religious, and social diversity of the Subcontinent.

"Superstition" - Superman hates magic; so, I just need to decide which magical villain I would most like to use. Also in the same vein: "Supernatural."

"Supercilious" - As I've sought out/thought up villains to augment Superman's great-but-not-numerous-enough rogues gallery, my favorite creation is Phantom Tom. Tom Cardy is a fucking bastard, a plagarizing, fabricating reporter for the Daily Star (if the Daily Planet is The New York Times, the Daily Star is the New York Post) and a batterer of women. Asshole. While Cardy and Clark Kent are covering an experiment at S.T.A.R. Labs for their respective newspapers, an accident obliterates Tom's body. Being comics, Tom doesn't actually die, instead waking up in the Phantom Zone. Thing is, he's not just in the Phantom Zone, he kind of is the Phantom Zone. He doesn't have a body, but he can appear in our world and communicate with the people therein and can also access all the detritus that has been dumped in the Zone over the years, as well as the individuals imprisoned there.

Tom Cardy was a genuinely bad guy to begin with; so, my hope is that Phantom Tom will outlast my particular tenure as a Superman writer and go on to be a recurring menace. The Phantom Zone was first discovered by Jor-El, Superman's genetic father, and a lot of Kryptonian jetsam and affiliated flotsam has been ditched in the Zone. Tom develops a pretty serious hatred for all things Kryptonian, namely Superman, Superboy, Supergirl, the Eradicator, and Krypto the Superdog. Eventually, he forms an organization called Black Zero, dedicated to the extermination of all things Krypton, starting with the Supers but extending to all the known pieces of Kryptonite, including the newly-created Kryptonite Man. (A Kryptonian terrorist group named Black Zero was responsible for the planet's destruction; so, Phantom Tom describes his Black Zero's activities as merely finishing the job they started.)

Anyway, before I fixated on the super- prefixes, I was going to call Phantom Tom's grand assault "Krypton Must Die," but "Supercilious" comes pretty close to how Tom the wife-beater regarded goody-goody Clark Kent even before Tom knew he was Superman.

Other possibilities include "Superfluous," "Superimpose," "Supercollider," "Supernova," "Superlative," "Supervision" (not to be confused with Superman's power of telescopic and microscopic "super-vision") and, if I get desperate, "Superb" and "Superior." Oh, and "Supercycle," another tale of Superman and the New Gods, presumably the Supercycle-riding Forever People.

*Originally titled Superman, the book was retitled The Adventures of Superman (starting with No. 424) after Crisis on Infinite Earths and a new Superman was launched with issue No. 1. In the aftermath of Infinite Crisis, the interregnum Superman has been cancelled (last issue No. 226) and Adventures has returned to its original title, Superman (No. 650).

1996
Action Comics
The Adventures of Superman
Superman
Superman: The Man of Steel
Superman: The Man of Tomorrow

2006
Action Comics
Superman