Do you think Superman likes nerdy hobbies

[Filbert]

I'm not sure I define your examples as 'nerdy.'
Nerds are intellectual. They read science magazines for the science, story magazines for the literary quality.
Comic books? Those were regular children's reading 'til the 80s, and widespread among all ages now. Video games? Everybody plays them. Is Superman a geek about anything? Except Krypton, he was a geek about that in the silver and bronze ages, I would say no. Superman has broad interests, and his hobbies reflect them. The fortress has a lab, a gym, a zoo. He makes salad with thousand-planet dressing. He sews. He pulls practical jokes.
Both Clark and Superman are 'regular' guys, just on different scales. Of course, regular means different things to different people, and changes over time.

[The World]

Aren't most versions of teen Clark on some form of Smallville's athletic team? Doesn't sound very nerdy to me.

That was Byrne nonsense.

[Vordan]

Aren't most versions of teen Clark on some form of Smallville's athletic team? Doesn't sound very nerdy to me.

Byrne Superman was and the Smallville TV show was but otherwise usually Pa Kent forbids Clark from participating in sports which causes Clark to be a social outcast.

[DABellWrites]

Jerry Siegel era: I could see Clark reading pulps and needing to read a porno once in a while.

Mort Weisinger era Pfft: Clark's hobbies were science, Superman, and falling head-over-heels to a woman with L.L. in her first and last name.

Bronze age? I remember a page where Clark and Lois are at the movies.

Post-Crisis? He's a married man, but growing up in Smallville? I'm sure Clark and Lana have their secrets. In Birthright (or Secret Origins), it was shown Clark likes astronomy. I think Post-Crisis could be the closest Superman to having hobbies.

New52? I could see Clark doing both.

[godisawesome]

I’ve been thinking that a way to play with Clark’s day job would be to have him start as an news opinion blogger when he was young who actually got a small following, and that got him his start in journalism. Play into the idea that he knows that physical might can’t solve all problems, and lay the groundwork for Plastic Man to reveal he’s a huge fan of Clark’s “column” like in JLA.

[marhawkman]

I think so, yeah. Most people would rather use off-the-shelf laptops, tablets, and gaming consoles.

I don't think Superman has a lot of hobbies. Basically, Supermaning is something like a hobby.

Yeah, very few people actually custom build PCs. It's a valid option for business, but doing your own is technically challenging and takes genuine skill.

[magha_regulus]

Science is his hobby. He makes robots and does all kinds of experiments in his free time. He's definitely a super nerd.

[13th Superman]

This day in age everyone would be considered a nerd/geek. Clark could definitely be one. It'd be nice to have him ask the league over for a super version of a Dungeons and Dragon game where it's a way to tell Elsewords or Imaginary Stories. I wish we had Clark's character pinned down so we get a better sense of him as a person.

[Lightning Rider]

There's just overwhelming evidence that this is the case. He reads, he has a sense of history, he builds and tinkers with advanced tech in isolation, he pays attention to current events and writes as a journalist, and while I don't distinctly remember this particular detail, he likely has niche collecting habits one might expect from a smalltown farm family. Which inevitably expand into his exotic off-world collecting habits.

[ironman2978]

I mean I guess it depends on each take of Superman:

Elliot S. Maggin said :

https://slate.com/human-interest/201...lark-kent.html
Clark has appropriately nerdy hobbies. He scrapbooks, for heaven’s sakes. He collects his favorite classic TV commercials on DVD. His favorite is the one for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce where the old man skips out of the retirement home to meet his grandson in the parking lot (“Hey, Boo-boo.”) and rides off for a weekend of gambling and debauchery.

and Action Comics#241 had Clark with these interests multiple interests involving science, playing chess, etc.

I remember Grant Morrison had Clark like going to cheesy Sci Fi films (same with Kevin J Anderson Enemies & Allies novel and it's Superman with western novels and sci fi films, but that took place in the 50's)

and playing video games with Jimmy


Plus Clark is probably a Sports aficionado, he probably has a favorite sports team, and love talking football, baseball or basketball facts with other people


I knew Smallville Clark liked astrology, as well as a strong interest in reading and collecting books(largely, to better understand his abilities), and was seen discussing everything from Nietzsche to comic books.

There is also the obvious one of Clark loving to write (Secret Identity, It's Superman loved to write science fiction novels based off his dreams of Krypton exploding and the like, birthright) hence him becoming a journalist

[Ascended]

Clark's a Renaissance Man, he's interested in damn near everything. STEM, literature, sports, history. He builds crazy inventions in the Fortress, he watches movies, reads old books, plays crazy games with his super pets and friends....

I swear there was an issue once where he collected rocks from all around the galaxy too.....

Porn, though? I dunno about that one. Nothing wrong with it, what red blooded man (and most women, I suspect?) haven't watched porn at one time or another? But given Clark's sensory abilities, I don't think porn would be the same for him; cameras don't pick up everything he sees and hears. Older "teen/coming of age" movies used to have this scene they'd always do, where the kids try to watch porn but it's all static and blurry and nobody can really tell what anything is. Not very appealing right? I feel like that's what all porn would be for Clark, in a way. Sure, people are naked, but Clark can't see the hormones flooding them, can't watch the electromagnetics in their brains go nuts, can't sense the blood rush.....for someone who perceives so much about the people around him, porn is probably pretty boring. Besides, the man probably sees plenty of sex every single day just walking around or flying on patrol. Not that Clark is a perv, but when looking for trouble (and he's always looking for trouble) he'd see plenty of stuff like that.

Plus, while he's not a prude, Clark clearly prefers having an emotional connection in sex. Porn is the exact opposite of that.

[Thor-Ul]

In one issue of Superboy (Kon El) it was revealed than Superman liked Metallica.
But it would be funny if Superman among the games were a huge fan of Grand Theft Auto.

[Adekis]

I'll never get tired of these panels.

[dornwolf]

I always liked the idea that he tried his hand as a novelist.

[K7P5V]

Supes has a TON of hobbies often resulting life saving technologies, remedies, and new ideas

Is Superman a geek about anything? Except Krypton, he was a geek about that in the silver and bronze ages, I would say no. Superman has broad interests, and his hobbies reflect them. The fortress has a lab, a gym, a zoo. He makes salad with thousand-planet dressing. He sews. He pulls practical jokes.
Both Clark and Superman are 'regular' guys, just on different scales. Of course, regular means different things to different people, and changes over time.

Science is his hobby. He makes robots and does all kinds of experiments in his free time. He's definitely a super nerd.

Agreed. Perfectly exemplifies the reasoning for having the Fortress of Solitude in the first place.