I haven’t purchased the New Krypton story in Superman yet (I’ll probably just buy the trade if DC gets it out in a timely manner) but apparently they’re showing that Krypton wasn’t just for white guys.
For the character’s first 30 years, Superman’s homeworld of Krypton was all-white. It was only in 1971 —33 years after [...]
Superman News
Krypton Gets Race
January 8th, 2009
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This Looks Like A Job For Superman
December 19th, 2008
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Seriously. A bus crashes, leaving the edge of the bus dangling over the bridge? That’s right out of Superman.
Superman Brings His Awesome To Gotham
October 24th, 2008
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This cartoon explains what I’m always saying about Superman vs. the other heroes, especially the unpowered ones like Batman. Love it.
Better & Better
September 18th, 2008
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Comic writer Geoff Johns (who got me on board Green Lantern for the first time) will be writing the stories for the DC Universe Online MMO game. That game is gonna make me buy a PS3.
50 Greatest Comic Book Characters?
August 12th, 2008
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As determined by the UK’s Empire magazine. They get the pecking order right.
DC’s Real Crisis
June 22nd, 2008
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Apparently some kind of shakeup is coming to DC comics. Good, I think. Countdown was just a mess, and Final Crisis doesn’t feel epic enough to me just yet even though its an issue in. The main problem is that DC is not feeling like the shared universe it should be. Ironically, in the last [...]
Superman Foreign Policy
April 9th, 2008
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photo credit: szlea
Ezra Klein makes the (convincing to me, at least) that American foreign policy should better be expressed as Superman versus Jack Bauer. Though to be honest the foreign policy we’ve got right now bears more resemblance to Lex Luthor.
Huge Loss For Warner Bros On Superman Rights
March 28th, 2008
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Wow.
Time Warner is no longer the sole proprietor of Superman.
A federal judge here on Thursday ruled that the heirs of Jerome Siegel — who 70 years ago sold the rights to the action hero he created with Joseph Shuster to Detective Comics for $130 — were entitled to reclaim their share of the U. [...]
Somebody Turns 70 Next Month
March 24th, 2008
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Up, up, and away.
Next month, Superman turns 70.
The intergalactic traveller from the planet Krypton has starred in comic books, TV and radio shows, movies, newspaper strips and video games.
His likeness appears on toys, statues, posters and all types of memorabilia.
But Superman had humble beginnings. In April 1938, the fledgling National Periodical Publications (now DC Comics) [...]
