So, finally at the end of our months-long journey through the films of Superman on the big screen, the final crappy truck stop meal before pulling into home. I promised you the “forgotten” Superman movie, and I give you… Steel, starring Shaquille O’Neal.

This is it, the conclusion to our titanic three-part recap of Superman Returns, and the end (sort of) of our months-long odyssey through the Superman theatrical films.

When we left off last week, Lois (with Lois Jr. in tow) had tracked down the origin of the mysterious blackout to a mansion on the shore of the Hudson River (or whatever the Metropolis equivalent is). Then she had  to sneak on board a yacht only to discover Lex Luthor in his bathrobe.

So Luthor tells Lois his plan. This may shock you

Continuing a three-part recap of 2006′s Superman Returns, Bryan Singer’s bigger, faster, louder ode to the original 1978 film. But before we get back into the plot, a word about Brandon Routh’s eyes.

They are brown. Not in the film, but in real life. Which means that in the film, he had to play the role in blue contacts. And they are very vividly blue. One might almost say impossibly blue (sorry, private joke).

Beginning a three-part recap of the latest and final (so far) appearance of Superman on the big screen.

Last week, we finished talking about Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. In the intervening years, Superman continued to be a fixture in popular culture. His popularity was eclipsed by Batman’s due to the overwhelming success of Tim Burton’s 1988 Batman and Bruce Timm’s Batman: the Animated Series. But he carried on, featured in TV series like Superboy, Lois and Clark, and later, Smallville. He also had his own well-received animated series in the wake of Batman’s success, and went on to feature prominently in the Justice League animated series as well.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Still. Okay, where were we? Oh yeah, this guy…

Nuclear Man, cloned from Superman’s DNA which was attached to a nuclear warhead thrown into the sun to give him some extra oomph! He heads for Earth.

So last week, it was mentioned that Supergirl was the last gasp of the Salkinds’ interest in Superman as a property (at least in theaters; they did come back to produce a syndicated Superboy series in later years). But four years after Superman III, a movie did come out titled Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. So what happened in between?