I miss the days when Superman actually used the lab facilities in his fortress. Plus the cliche of naive (stupid) farm boy, is not only outdated it was never really an actual thing.
I miss the days when Superman actually used the lab facilities in his fortress. Plus the cliche of naive (stupid) farm boy, is not only outdated it was never really an actual thing.
Last edited by llozymandias; 11-27-2020 at 03:11 AM.
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John Martin, citizen & rightful ruler of the omniverse.
I don't care about the science lab, but I do dislike the "naive farmboy" thing a lot. It really doesn't seem like it was ever a thing until at least the movie, where it was part of his disguise. Originally, of course, it had nothing to do with his day to day life, and was just a common occupation among the parents of people that age. Then in Superboy, they'd moved to town when he was young. But now it's become this sort of "thing" often used to explain his faith in people (though there is no logical reason rural people would have more faith in others) or superior values (again not more prominent among rural people), or as a contrast to Lois (who also had a rural background at one time).
Plus, did he not actually have cosmic stories? I could have sworn that I read of Superman having some sort of half naked exiled in space story, one to which Future State calls back. Then there was some stories where he actually increases the output of Green Lantern Corpsmen power output because of his will enabling victory. And I also thought there was one where he moved the earth and several other celestial bodies overcoming some alien machinery to do so
I’m with you in this.
Farmboy should not equal “naive”, and in modern times, mostly just suggests he’d be use to early rising, having some chores... and likely be aware of some of the flaws of the country in a manner similar to Lois knowing about the flaws of the city.
I disliked the attempt to make Jonathon Kent some paranoid pseudo-Objectivist advocating for doing nothing out of fear for Clark in MOS... but I appreciate the family having some genuine wariness and doubts about how their town will treat Clark, and whenever Cavill was allowed to show some “chip on his shoulder” attitude, it worked.
Like action, adventure, rogues, and outlaws? Like anti-heroes, femme fatales, mysteries and thrillers?
I wrote a book with them. Outlaw’s Shadow: A Sherwood Noir. Robin Hood’s evil counterpart, Guy of Gisbourne, is the main character. Feel free to give it a look: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asi...E2PKBNJFH76GQP
On the topic of Clark Kent, Glenn Greenwald is what I imagine a modern Clark Kent would be like. He is objective, brilliant, and ruthless at speaking truth to power...but he is physically not very intimidating or manly-looking, and is treated as an annoying pest by his enemies and fellow journalists before he is anything else.
They're also both farmboys on their time off.
Roxy was a much more interesting character than Tana in the 90s Superboy comics.
Bring back Cir-El, but not as Superman’s daughter, and not as Supergirl
Last edited by Will Evans; 11-28-2020 at 07:12 AM.
The real person equivalent of Superman is Fred Rogers.
I don't have an issue with Superman starting out as a mysterious figure like Batman in the start of his career like some people as I see it as a nod to how the Golden Age version of the character started, basically Batman copied Superman's shtick not the other way round.
No matter how many reboots, new origins, reinterpretations or suit redesigns. In the end, he will always be SUPERMAN
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"Superman is literally wearing the American flag."
He's wearing goddamn primary colors. There isn't one speck of white on his costume. Come on, man. I know we like to reach in cape comics but must we be colorblind? Captain America wears the American flag. Diana, when she had the star-spangled undies, wore the American flag. Superman wears primary colors, two of which are on the American Flag, yes, but all three of which constitute the Armenian and Colombian flags in their entirety as neither have any other design elements. Drop this tired claim that's always used to somehow insinuate that Clark's some good ol' boy who is in some G man's pocket.
The American flag requires stars and the colors red, white and blue. Superman's costume is red, blue and yellow. If we're bringing flags into this, his costume's more Colombian than it is American. Drop this ****.
Last edited by Robanker; 11-30-2020 at 03:39 AM.