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Looks like DC will try to ruin Superman like they just did with Wonder Woman....

Superman Gets a Hipster Makeover - Crush: Hollywood's Next Generation - omg! on Yahoo

Forget everything you know about The Man of Steel and brace yourself for a staggering new take on the world's most popular Super Hero.

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Whatever happened to him being the mild-mannered reporter who sent half his paycheck to his silver-haired mother in Smallville? That was swell. Who on earth would prefer this new Superman?

The crowd that reads Twilight.

Which is 14 year old girls, who don't read comics anyway...

I love how my article called him a hipster and emo at the same time.

He's sad because he wants to cut himself but he can't.

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So, Superboy Prime wasn't emo enough?

figmentPez said:

So, Superboy Prime wasn't emo enough?

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Or even Clark from Smallville.

WHY are they trying to update Superman? It's always been his timeless, ageless quality that has made him popular.

AshburnerX said:

WHY are they trying to update Superman? It's always been his timeless, ageless quality that has made him popular.

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WHY are they trying to update Superman? It's always been his timeless, ageless quality that has made him popular.

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Yeah, but you'd have thought that after the LAST costume change (which also changed his powers) they'd have learned something.

AshburnerX said:

WHY are they trying to update Superman? It's always been his timeless, ageless quality that has made him popular.

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The Man of Tomorrow somehow needs an update, how ironic.

Oh boy it's Smallville the comic.

I like J. Micheal Straczynski, and his recent run on Superman wasn't terrible. Faint praise be damned, it's really hard for me to give two shits about Superman anyway.

I'll be giving this a read.

I'm torn...

If they turn it into an even whinier version of Smallville, it will be the worst thing ever.

On the other hand, if they turn it into a mad tale of how Lex Luthor tries to defend the world against an indestructible, whiny teenager with X-ray vision and severe emotional shortcomings, this could be pretty awesome.

mr_thehun said:

It would be great if it turned out teenage clark kent was an otaku from Japan.

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And the graphic novel image is just how he fantasizes about the kind of super hero/anime character he would be?
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That would actually be pretty cool.

mr_thehun said:

It would be great if it turned out teenage clark kent was an otaku from Japan.


HAHAHAHA IT HAS BEEN SAID AND SOMEDAY WILL BE!!!!!!

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They already have an Otaku superhero... It's Toyman (or at least his Japanese counterpart).

Control Freak from the Teen Titans TV show probably counts as an Otaku villian.

I like Smallville... well, most of the time.... okay, enough to keep watching, hoping for the next of the few great moments.

figmentPez said:

I like Smallville... well, most of the time.... okay, enough to keep watching, hoping for the next of the few great moments.

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My guilty TV pleasure.

The graphic novel's (along with a similar Batman one in its own self-contained universe) has been hyped and talked about for awhile. At least among comic sites, anyway.

It's not a total change for the character, but another separate universe, like All Star Superman or any Elseworld. Of course, if it does really well, don't be surprised if elements of it become part of the main continuity.

So, I guess now teen girls will be able to choose between Team Clark and Team Lex?

Well, it's a graphic novel. That doesn't necessarily mean anything for mainstream Supes (or did I miss that?). Making him "smolder" is kind of anti-Superman, isn't it?

True, but elements outside the comics have been incorporated into them for decades. The Daily Planet, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Kryptonite, "Up, up, and away". All of them came from a radio show in the 40s. Flying came as a result of the Fleischer cartoons. Heck, the Smallville friendship between Lex and Clark was incorporated after the show, Smallville's popularity.

It might not mean anything now, but it might later.

Am I the only comic nerd that isn't outraged about this? It's pretty par for the course to do alternate reality remakes of classic characters.

I mean, at least it's something different.

^This. This new series is no different than Birthright, All Star Superman, etc. It's just another take on Supes.

ThatNickGuy said:

True, but elements outside the comics have been incorporated into them for decades. The Daily Planet, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Kryptonite, "Up, up, and away". All of them came from a radio show in the 40s. Flying came as a result of the Fleischer cartoons. Heck, the Smallville friendship between Lex and Clark was incorporated after the show, Smallville's popularity.

It might not mean anything now, but it might later.

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Lex and Clark being childhood friends has bounced in and out of continuity many times over the years. Hell in the Silver age Lex Luthor became the arch enemy of Superman because he blamed Superboy for the accident that caused his hair loss. That said it didn't become part of post-crisis continuity until Smallville, so there you go.

I'll just leave this here

MINE EYES!! they burnssss......

O_O

Sound and fury, signifying nothing. It is a one shot graphic novel, with the intent of trying to bring people who are traditionally not comics readers into the fold. Of course they're trying to make Supes look like the new hotness.

It's Ultimate DC!

Leave jeph loeb away from it and it might turn out golden.

Ravenpoe said:

Am I the only comic nerd that isn't outraged about this? It's pretty par for the course to do alternate reality remakes of classic characters.

I mean, at least it's something different.

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And from what I've heard its actually really good. I'm down. I don't get the nerd rage over this. When a character gets updated people freak out, when they stay the same people say they are stale so they can't ever win. Go nuts I say.

How did you get that super secret photo of the new Superman?

Hoodies make everything better, right?

Just ask Ben Reilly.

Coulda been a lot worse



Mock-ups from the Tim Burton project. More pics here.

I hope those costumes were for Kandor or Krypton... I hope...

CAD Sillies 2010 Oct 27

Me, I'm just waiting for him to start eating people and karate-kicking helicopters.

Still better than any of Smallville's costumes. Hey-oh!