New look for TNG (Supes)

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IronBrig4

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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?
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

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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Vagabond

Vagabond

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.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

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.
 
figmentPez

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

ThatNickGuy

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?
 
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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?
 
ThatNickGuy

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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.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

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.
 
Covar

Covar

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.
 
Norris

Norris

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.
 
Espy

Espy

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.
 
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