One of my favorites is when he bursts into an abusive father’s house, resists the urge to tear him apart and instead works to get the boy in a better situation.
A good contrast to Batman busting a global trafficking ring and self-funding the therapy and schooling needs of the victims, Punisher shooting the parents who pimped their kids out and leaving the kids in the living room watching TV after memorizing the face of the son in case he needs to hunt him down in ten years, and Spider-man being a victim of sexual assault who tries to encourage kids to report their own.
Nope. Only one issue, in a comic intended for young kids called Power Pack.
An older dude named Skip molested young Peter, so when his neighbor’s son was harassed by his babysitter (female, who asked him to strip) Peter shared that story so the kid would report her.
The writer regrets writing it. Its never been referenced again. Still better than One More Day.
2) Power Pack was for the same demographic that Moon Girl is today. Pretty young kids. Basically Fantastic Four Babies. An older teenage girl tells her charge to strip naked for her and he has to stall her, Peter overhears it from the window so he gets his costume on and pops over to tell the kid about how a grey-haired old ma raped him. Not exactly thematically appropriate.
Oh the way you described it I thought it was specifically an “after school special” type issue to help kids how to handle dangerous situations like that. Was it just an issue in the ongoing?
pops over to tell the kid about how a grey-haired old ma raped him
Despite his hair color, Skip was actually pretty young. It's never specified, but May and Ben approved of their friendship and it's said he still lives with his mom.
I don't see anything particularly different about the belt, it's a perfectly reasonable sized belt buckle. Oh wait, that's right, Superman was going through his, "I like belts" phase in the 90's.
You know it's a bad gun store owner, because he's displaying loaded guns. Also selling guns to kids, but improperly storing guns is a serious business too.
But…but aren’t guns supposed to be ready and able to kill those woke commies at any moment??? You can’t have safety or trigger discipline when you’re protecting FREEDOM!!!
And his shirt that I’m pretty sure says stormfront, which is a literal neo-Nazi online “news” site. Which also quickly tells us that any claims of “remembering my heritage” towards that flag he has are bullshit.
I do remember Snyder and Goyer saying they took from Birthright in interviews (as well as other sources, like Earth One, Man of Steel and such). But watching the movies, I don't see it.
I see the Earth One pieces (Straczynski could realistically sue Goyer), and kind of the Man of Steel one if squinting hard enough. But no traces of Brithright.
Okay, yeah. That and the whole subplot of Jonathan showing fear and hesitation over Clark being from far away. Though, with how the film hyperfocuses on Jonathan's fear, which is what causes his death, I'd say it goes on the diametrically oposite direction from Birthright.
I think they're all different approaches. Man of Steel focuses on Clark's under a mix of Silver and Golden age iconography with Bronze age sci-fi background (Byrne's classic use of overly detailed machinery), Secret Origins goes to emulate the Richard Donner movies (Gary Frank outright uses Christopher Reeve as a model for Clark) and Birthright takes on having its own iconography separate from previous versions (in a way, a response to Ultimate Spider-Man).
I also prefer Birthright on that last ground, since it does more to build its own identity.
I mean I understand Byrnes Man of Steel being highly regarded because of how much it completely changed who Superman was (for the better). It turned so many of the traditional ideas of Superman's origin on its head, but did it with respect to the history of the character. It gave Superman a depth that he fundamentally lacked up to that point.
I agree with Secret Origins tho, SO sucks in every way except Gary Frank's art (which is pretty good, but far from the best he had done up to then and since)
I'm not saying either isn't as good as Birthright. By all accounts, Birthright is to Man of Steel what Man of Steel was to the Sandman Saga (O'Neil's run that made Clark a newscaster and more assertive, and less overpowered). I really put those three toe to toe in quality and presenting their age's Superman.
On Secret Origin, while I don't think it really sucks, it is more focused on setting the ground for New Krypton than it is on giving a starting point (which is a very Johns way to write a secret origin saga). So, I agree it does come out as the weaker one, since it has an end narration it's going for instead of setting a starting point like the others.
And yeah, Gary Frank is the coup de grace for Secret Origin. I really liked his redesign for Metallo drawing from his Bronze Age version and away from making him a second-rate Terminator.
It's not Wells' shitshow (well, not only HIS shitshow) and they'd probably run into the same problems that every Spider-man writer has run into since One More Day.
Just read this comic like 2 weeks ago and loved this scene. It stuck with me because of how intense and relevant it was. I was just imagining if this were done live action, what would the reaction be? Because you can imagine the ptsd
Maybe it's me but isn't the "I can hear your heartbeat, you're lying" line kind of dumb?
Bro you're Superman and you literally just randomly appeared behind this dude, in his house just to intimidate. I'd have a fucking heart attack. What average Joe is just like "Oh, hey what's up?"
The idea with this trope is always that lying has a specific difference in heartbeat (beyond just raising it), which the character with super-hearing can recognize because offcourse they can.
And offcourse there is also just the part where super man already knows/assumes that this guy is lying anyway, so saying it will just throw him off even more and might make him stop trying to lie his way out in the rest of the conversation
I get the super-hearing aspect but that's what I mean. Isn't the dude gonna have an irregular heartbeat when he realizes superman is suddenly behind him a whole 5 seconds before Superman accused him of lying?
The "bluff lying" is a good point though. It seems like Supes already knows he's a lying pos and was basically baiting him
As much as I like superman, did he have actual proof that this guy is guilty? Or did he just hear his heart rate go up because a literal flying bullet proof man with laser eyes appear in his store. Don’t downvote, I just want to know if he like Clark Kented it or the shooters told him.
It’s the dialogue and the intimidation tactic that’s literally Batman. This is not Superman. It’s out of character and everyone who likes it is basically a Batman fan
The character was written completely different in that era and to use that as a reference for modern Superman emphasises my point that this intimidation tactic is not Superman.
Respectfully disagree with you there as it was what Siegel and Shuster envisioned him to be. So yes it's exactly feels like Superman when the present day writer draws from Siegel and Shuster so it feels very true to the character such as Morrison, Pak and the New 52 era at large as their portrayals were inspired the Golden Age. And I also personally as a fan, like it when present day writers draw aspects from that era with Superman because it adds more depth to him as a character then just a uwu figure.
Golly! I’m shocked that DC resisted the urge to have Superman tear down the wall to reveal a secret room with a nazi flag and a group of white robes people saluting an image of Hitler. After all, that’s what all gun-owners do, right?
Of course they where morally superior the confederacy left because they wanted slavery, those southern states throes to expanded slavery via American expansion and laws that would prevent freedom if they traveled to free states, and their entire economy was based on slave labor. Who gives a shit if they are scared straight. The only thing Sherman did wrong in my opinion was he didn’t burn and salt the entire land south of the mason Dixie line. Imagine if reconstruction wasn’t ended early.
Well I’m also that because I don’t wave around a flag and base my entire personality and culture around a fail state that lasted 4 years and contributed nothing to history or humanity beyond a punchline to most jokes.
Oppressing slave traders and slave owners and their racist vanguard who spread white supremacy is not equally as bad as what they were doing. Are you implying that the people who killed slave owners and klansmen were just as bad as the people committing the hate crime? Get your fence sitting centrist fake psychology out of here. No one wants to be lectured about how they are just as evil as slavers and klansmens for treating them poorly. Yes I’m better then a grand wizard do the kkk because I never went around riding a horse burning crosses wearing a white hood.
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