Comics: Siegel/Shuster, Grant Morrison
Live Action: Christopher Reeve
Animation: Fleischer
Currently reading the post-Crisis era, and I’m almost at the end of Byrne’s run. It’s really good. There are some missteps (like the Fine version of Brainiac), but otherwise I’m really loving it. It’s got a kinda raw, kinetic energy going on.
The gestalt version that exists only in my head
If that's not allowed, then Grant Morrison's version
Injustice because he is tragic
I think this is true of a lot of fans. It's certainly true for me.
My favorite Lois and Metropolis are from the 90s. My favorite Luthor and Jimmy are from the '60s. My favorite Superman and Clark are from the New 52, which is already kiiind of a mix of the early Golden Age and late Silver Age? And the list goes on. There's no singular unified version of the character and his whole world that's just the ideal for me. Just variations on a theme where I like the execution more or less across 80 and counting years of media.
And I think that's kinda neat.
"You know the deal, Metropolis. Treat people right or expect a visit from me."
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"People’s Dreams... Have No Ends"
I definitely have gotten elements of how I think of Superman from outside of DC, in stories like Marvelman or Supreme, or Gladiator for that matter. But also from just like... interviews and thinkpieces? Sometimes from creators who worked on the character and his world, sometimes just from fans who apply their reading to it. It could be anything from an open panel discussion with Elliot Maggin confirming that to him, Luthor held himself back out of spite but legitimately would have been a hero without Superman around to distract him, to Tim Burton's sweeping descriptions of Clark Kent's alienation and relationship to Krypton in the unmade Superman Lives, to just... a blog post, or even a forum comment, that I find particu.arly insightful, or memorable. Anything can influence my perspective on my favorite character if I find the idea compelling, interesting, and generally matches up with my perspective on the character.
"You know the deal, Metropolis. Treat people right or expect a visit from me."
"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."
~ Black Panther.
Yes, I have to pick Fleischer/Famous Superman (which I believe Siegel wrote some or all of them). And I've kind of come to realize that Fleischer/Famous Superman may even trump Siegel/Shuster GA comic Superman in that it's like this streamlined pure distillation of the Golden Age comics Superman.
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Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”