I'm going to go out on a limb and say Kal probably does go down on women. He's suppose to be a kind and generous guy.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Kal probably does go down on women. He's suppose to be a kind and generous guy.
Rules are for lesser men, Charlie - Grand Pa Joe ~ Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory
Ha, I was wondering if that whole thing would make it to these boards...
“Look, you can’t put the Superman #77s with the #200s. They haven’t even discovered Red Kryptonite yet. And you can’t put the #98s with the #300s, Lori Lemaris hasn’t even been introduced.” — Sam
“Where the hell are you from? Krypton?” — Edgar Frog
Hi, Super Fans!! My controversial Superman opinion today is that while we fans know of the two items that can thwart Superman's vast invulnerability, the in-universe denizens shoulder have access to that information.
Further things like Kryptonite should not be readily available
It's time to retire silver age concepts out of Superman. Experiment with something new and see what works.
If the K-metal issue (1940) is to go by, Siegel wanted to do more sci-fi ideas with Superman, but the power that be at the time weren't willing and Superman was turning in product of the radio serial,Fleischer cartoon, and even the 1942 novel. I believe Superman is somewhere, all of Siegel and Shuster's ideas for the character.
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I think the reason a lot of modern writers even the well regarded ones tend to find Superman difficult to write is because the character requires a level of nuance that doesn't really exist anymore plus they just take themselves and the character to seriously. The "human deep down" stuff is a good example of this.
Rules are for lesser men, Charlie - Grand Pa Joe ~ Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory
superman is difficult to write for the same reason as ww, green lanter, etc.
Powerful characters are limited by a shared universe, Batman stories can have consequences because those consequences affect only Gotham, that is why even bad comics are fun, in the case of Superman its consequences affect the whole earth, that's why Either you are very good and you understand superman, or the comics will end up being very bad.
Anyone can write Batman and his level characters, Superman and his level characters can only be written by the best, which is why the best Superman comics are stories out of canon.
I think many Fleischer/Famous shorts and many other Superman shows and comics kinda undercut this assertion. The stakes in Superman comics don't always have to affect "the whole earth." Metropolis-confined stakes have worked fine in Superman comics/media.
(now I do think you're more often going to get more globe-affecting stakes with Superman stories, and that's right and appropriate, but Metropolis-only stakes can and have worked fine over the years)
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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.”
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.”