Tag: superman
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Superman is just so effing good, and I kinda love it
It’s a little astonishing how interesting Superman is. I recently finished reading All Star Superman, which is a twelve-issue comic in which Superman basically gets cancer (err he gets overloaded with the sun’s rays) and discovers he has a year to live. The comic was filled with the lighter-hearted ridiculousness that I am starting to…
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Lately been finding myself thinking more fondly of Superman
At FogCon I was on a panel about anti-heroes, and the consensus was so uniform, across the panel, that shiny true-blue good-guy heroes were passé that I actually switched sides and was like, “Wait a second? Isn’t there worth in showing that people can actually, like, be good?” Recently I for some reason found myself…