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Except then one day I read issue #701 and I was like ;______; t-that guy is pretty cool...
And so! I shall share with you (whoever happens to be reading this) the issue that changed my mind about this big dumb guy in red panties! It'll take a while to load, but I hope you like it as much as I do. ENJOY!
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January 15 2011, 06:45:18 UTC 1 year ago
The art is so pretty! /ENVIES/
January 15 2011, 06:49:09 UTC 1 year ago
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I'M STILL NOT ENTIRELY SURE HOW HE'LL HANDLE... YOU KNOW, NOT BEING SUPERMAN ANYMORE, but i suppose there's always power events where they can officially meet. 8|a because i swear to god they totally have to.
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January 19 2011, 00:12:44 UTC 1 year ago
No j/p I love this.
Anonymous
March 4 2011, 17:01:35 UTC 1 year ago
That being said, I welled up a bit when Superman saved that girl.
March 4 2011, 18:20:12 UTC 1 year ago
i still well up. i've read this crap so many times now. ;_;
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March 4 2011, 19:40:03 UTC 1 year ago
Wow.
That's very nearly the best thing I've ever read.Going to have to buy that.
March 4 2011, 19:55:41 UTC 1 year ago
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March 4 2011, 20:45:55 UTC 1 year ago
That's how I ended up here, and I'm glad I did. I like Superman much more,now.
March 4 2011, 20:52:55 UTC 1 year ago
And I'm glad! He's a great character. Always pleased to spread the love.
Anonymous
March 4 2011, 21:02:12 UTC 1 year ago
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March 12 2011, 08:18:21 UTC 1 year ago
still a terrible character, but slightly better
While this has been the best superman I have ever seen, I say this is a credit to the writer more than the superman persona.For, me the fact remains, superman has no flaws, no real weakness, which make his "goodness" frankly unbelievable.
This piece is still great and does make me want to see more of the writers work (non superman pieces preferably). I sure with a better designed character the writer of this could go really far.
Anonymous
March 5 2011, 02:01:34 UTC 1 year ago
Another Stumbler
This is the first Superman I've ever read. Just from the bits and pieces I'd see on TV, I figured he seemed like such a douche compared to Batman, so I never bothered.The tears in my eyes are pushing me to reconsider.
Interesting though... Does Superman always look so sad?
March 5 2011, 08:46:37 UTC 1 year ago
I would say it's only the artist in this particular story arc, but... well, as a little bit of background: previous to this issue, a grieving widow runs up to him and says that he could have operated on her husband and saved him, but she couldn't get ahold of him and was constantly told that he was off doing "important things", and so her husband died. That's what spurs his walk, here.
Short answer: no.
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March 7 2011, 04:15:09 UTC 1 year ago
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March 7 2011, 18:05:44 UTC 1 year ago
Stumbler
I've recently become highly interested in Supes myself, all due to All-Star Superman. It shows a side of the Man-of-Steel that I never was aware of. This comic hit me just like All-Star did. I'll have to get the series.Thanks!!
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March 8 2011, 06:09:47 UTC 1 year ago
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March 8 2011, 21:42:07 UTC 1 year ago
the comic
I thought that it was ok. but I thought that a superman comic would be at least a little better than this...March 8 2011, 23:59:33 UTC 1 year ago
Thanks for that.
This is a really well-done story. It's hard to write Superman; it's hard to make a man with few vulnerabilities empathetic. JMS has done a really good job here, I think, by sort of getting to the root of the Superman ideal.Since Superman is somewhat related to the Nietzschean concept of the "Overman," a concept it's possible to think of as "a completely self-actualized person," he's a perfect lens for the sort of issues covered in this story. There's a great scene in Waking Life where a philosophy professor talks about the difference between a Plato, Einstein, or Nietzsche; and the average person, comparing most of us to "super-chimpanzees" due to the way most of us sleep through life (in the comic, described as "working six days a week... until [we're] too old to do it anymore, then [we] die"). Here, Supes is saying that we don't have to fix everything to make a difference. It's enough to make a difference.
With our national news media, it's easy to lose sight of the idea of local action. We think of thinks like crime, drugs, and homelessness in terms of large aggregates of statistics. It's hard to deal with in such a large and abstract form. But as Supes says of the jumper, "...It'd be better to get someone who'll listen to her." So much of the hurt in the world could be solved with a simple conversation ahead of time. And mostly when folks are still young (I was halfway expecting S to try to talk it out with the dealers, but usu. by that age/stage, it's too late; the system [us] has already failed them). Not the helicopter-parent sort of attention; again, see the difference between talking to and listening to. But no one's beyond help. We've just got to keep trying, keep making those small contributions, fending off the darkness and despair. Resist the urge to fall back to sleep, to surrender control, to sleepwalk through life. Stay engaged, stay present, and try your best. In that way, we can all be Supermen.
Thanks. Stories like this are one of the reasons I read comics.
March 9 2011, 19:01:16 UTC 1 year ago
I never saw Superman as a smartass but the first few pages made me laugh.
Quite philosophical (?) in this comic x3
March 9 2011, 19:52:50 UTC 1 year ago
Superman
I loved JMS's storytelling back in Babylon 5 - he changed the way sci fi serials were done, sic. STNG and DS9 etc, having deep, long term plots and sub plots. His characters have depths, change and evolve, maybe not quite as realistically as 'real people', but more than fantasy characters usually do. Most people love Batman cos he's mean and moody, angst driven and tormented, same goes for Wolverine. But that's easy to do, it's much harder to write interesting good guys.JMS manages it. The artwork is okay, I've seen much better (what's going on with his nose? looks like he's run into a wall at times) but it's the story, like Gaiman's Sandman, that shines. This is the kind of thing that non comic readers don't see and wouldn't expect.Their loss.March 11 2011, 21:49:30 UTC 1 year ago
Stumbled Upon
I haven't read a new Superman story in YEARS. The only comics I have is The DEath of Superman Trilogy, Graphic Novel of Superman Returns and A Collection of Early strips up to the Early 80s... I think! (It's been a while since I read it!!) What's the back story to this? Why IS Superman just walking through Philly? And, like many other commentators, the bit with the suicidal girl got to me too, probably because I'd been there myself! He made her a promise... and its odd to think he would have kept it and let her die. Thank you for posting this "Supermanliness".March 11 2011, 22:00:02 UTC 1 year ago
The bottled city of Kandor, stolen and bottled after the rest of the planet of Krypton had been destroyed, is rescued from Brainiac and restored to the right size in the arctic. All of its citizens have Superman's powers, and not all of them are quite as goodly as Kal-El. Tensions rise, they pick up their city, form a new planet under it, and go hang out on the opposite side of the sun from Earth as "New Krypton". Kal-El goes and lives with them. Tensions are still rising, even with the sun between Earth and New Krypton, and the general in charge of stirring up controversy (Lois Lane's father, of course, for maximum drama) brings it to the point that he's allowed to launch a whole bunch of kryptonite nukes and destroy the planet.
After all this Superman comes back to Earth and resumes his Supermanly duties, and during a press conference a woman rushes up to him and slaps him. She says she knows he didn't feel it, but she wants him to know how angry she is. During the whole New Krypton business, her husband had died of... I think an inoperable brain tumor, I can't quite remember, and she tried to get ahold of Superman because he could have operated on it with his microscopic/x-ray/heat vision. Everyone she tried to contact to get in touch with him said he was busy with galactic affairs, so her husband died. She's angry because he didn't care, and he wasn't there. It's kind of an unreasonable anger, as everyone there points out, but it shakes Superman. That was issue 700, and this is 701.
Hope it wasn't too long-winded or convoluted!
Anonymous
March 13 2011, 11:23:47 UTC 1 year ago
Just a question.
I StumbledUpon you and that was actually quite awesome. So thank you. But I was just wondering... Where do you get these online comics? I was looking for some (especially batman) comics, and this Superman one was especially high definition.Thanks again :)
March 15 2011, 19:07:46 UTC 1 year ago Edited: March 15 2011, 19:08:25 UTC
March 13 2011, 20:30:44 UTC 1 year ago
Stumbled upon this
How many issues are there that cover this walk?I really hate(d?) Superman, but this makes him so much more.. I don't know.
I liked this.
March 13 2011, 20:35:48 UTC 1 year ago
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March 14 2011, 09:26:33 UTC 1 year ago
Wait, what?
Seriously, this was pretty much the worst run on Superman in the last 7 or 8 years. Horribly trite, a terrible attempt at doing "real world" issues that fall totally flat, and one of the most offensive issues of a comic book I have ever read a few issues into it, when Superman magically forces a random alien race to fix everything that's wrong with my home state's economy and, at the same time, solve the health crisis.JMS has done some great work in his career, but this ain't it.
Anonymous
March 15 2011, 13:02:46 UTC 1 year ago
Re: Wait, what?
OMG THANKYOU!!! This is CRAP! Isn't the entire reason he's walking like this because he returned from space to find an angry woman saying if he were still on earth her husband wouldnt have died from a brain tumor becuase superman could see it? SINCE WHEN IS THAT SUPERMANS JOB?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! This is just about the furthest thing from a legitimate superman run that i've ever experinced. I QUIT SUPERMAN!Anonymous
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March 15 2011, 18:21:39 UTC 1 year ago
thank you
really good. be it drawing or writing. love it.Anonymous
March 16 2011, 09:18:14 UTC 1 year ago
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