Superman was initially just a good guy with incredible strength. When and how did he become an icon of hope and heroism?
will we ever get him back?
Superman was initially just a good guy with incredible strength. When and how did he become an icon of hope and heroism?
Landon Hill
William Hughes
early-mid golden age.
Justin Sullivan
> icon of ... heroism
Superman is considered an icon of heroism because he's considered the first real super hero the way that these were understood at the time he started and he's been in print continuously since that time.
However, he was always about heroism (these panels are from Superman (1939) #1 and I would say that taking these panels into account (this is my own edit, I'll post the two actual pages after this so people can see there's nothing out of context) that it's also a message of helping and, in that respect, a hopeful one.
I mean when are good guys of any sort not about hope? When you watch your local news, and rather than them wasting all that screen time on an four car pile up, or a thunderstorm that washed away all these people possessions, but instead they depict a fire engine crew putting out a fire (sure the building was damaged/partially destroyed) but they saved all the people PLUS there pets. So, the fire department is the good guys and isn't that something that makes you think hope?
Brandon Scott
Just storytime Superman #1 please.
Nicholas Ross
Youre not posting them :(
Kayden Watson
Not him, but If he doesn't start when I get home(about an hour, depending on traffic) i can story time it. I have been thinking about a "Grand Superman Storytime". But I don't have the level of dedication that X-user has.
Jayden Carter
Dangit Bobby, I was hoping he'd come back. Now it's up to me to do this storytime
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Henry Evans
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Ryan Robinson
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Benjamin King
>You're hurting me
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Camden Jenkins
>an eighth of a mile
How specific
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Adam Johnson
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Bentley Cruz
It's funny because the some of the first issues of nu52 superman were supposed to be depowered like this. Kind of a waste that they went the other way with that.
Brayden Foster
Bless you user.
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Ayden Cox
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Gabriel Edwards
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Mason Murphy
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Benjamin Nelson
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Henry Allen
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William Baker
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Austin Martin
Bump a rump
Daniel Richardson
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Colton Rogers
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Chase Mitchell
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Connor Sullivan
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Jaxon Parker
and that's a wrap!
Parker Hill
Morrison wanted to do a Golden age -> Silver Age transition sort of story, but I think he made things move too fast. The Collector/Brainiac stuff should have been at least around the end of his run, rather than 5 issues in.
Kevin Barnes
I love Morrison's run, but this is a point. There's also that weird, time skip early on that throws me off
Zachary Collins
I see no flaws with this logic.
Gabriel Jones
Look at the top of his head
Oliver Butler
>DCEU Superman will never be this fun
Lincoln Martinez
look at this dick
>You're ruining all of my needles!
>Do it again.
Christian Edwards
Superman isn't about fun, did you think the Bible was about fun?
Owen Perry
>will we ever get him back?
John Turner
>did you think the Bible was about fun?
>Fire and Brimstone
Wait,it isn't?!
Luke Barnes
Thank you, user. That was pretty fun.