scans_daily: Must there be a Superman?

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@ 2011-02-09 02:17 pm UTC

Must there be a Superman?

"Grounded" continues...

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	no subject hoey 2011-02-09 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	Superbatman, what a horribly awesome mess. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

	no subject silverzeo 2011-02-09 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	You prefer composite? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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hoey, 2011-02-09 10:33 pm UTC (Expand)

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calvision, 2011-02-09 11:08 pm UTC (Expand)

Not as awesome as Batman Bin Suparman -

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big_daddy_d, 2011-02-10 01:42 am UTC (Expand)

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	no subject crinos 2011-02-09 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Have to say, the superman squad is probably the best thing to come out of Grounded (Not like there's much competition.) I mean, Living solar system? Sentient thought? Gorilla Galaxy? THIS is what comics should be about. Not this mopey political soapbox bullshit. Give us more of THIS dammit! (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject dryponder.livejournal.com 2011-02-10 12:39 am UTC (link)
	AGREED. :) SuperBatman fanart: http://deantrippe.tumblr.com/post/3200663547/superbatman-who-appears-today-in-superman-708 (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject silverzeo 2011-02-09 10:30 pm UTC (link)
	This is an awesome scene... too bad it going to be one of those one moment things that will be forgotten till the writer feels to bring it up again.... (Reply to this)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-02-09 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	Well, thank heavens that mess is partly cleared up. (Reply to this)

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jaybee3
2011-02-09 10:34 pm UTC (link)

This is a heckuva lot of exposition for a comic book.

Wouldn't it be easier just to have an arc with Superman getting over the genocide of the remaining members of his species (including all the K children) by his adopted planet? Wouldn't that have been a natural thing to do - instead of acting like a hobo as if it never happened? And it wouldn't have taken all the issues "Grounded" has taken up to do it.

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	no subject dryponder.livejournal.com 2011-02-10 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Read the issue. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject ian_karkull 2011-02-09 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. Oh, my...! I'm not quite sure what I love more, the sheer gleeful joy and awesome, comic-booky goodness of sentient Solar Systems and Superideas or the sly, metatextual aknowledgedment of "Must There Be A Superman?", the effect of the Krypton Massacre and what an awfully depressing mess Grounded has just been in general. Either way, MARRY ME CHRIS ROBERSON!!! <3 <3 <3 (Reply to this)

	no subject calvision 2011-02-09 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	"the fortress is housed in a pentagonal icositetrahedron" <-wow, I couldn't spell that even if I wanted to. ._. Back to secondary geometry with me. (Reply to this)

	no subject mas 2011-02-09 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	Does this seem like the GLC to anyone else? I mean I celestial body (Mogo, SuperStar) Cell, thought (math equation GL, SuperEgo) really? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-02-10 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Very much so, but I can live with that. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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glprime, 2011-02-10 04:07 am UTC (Expand)

	Superstar doesn't socialize? bewareofgeek 2011-02-09 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	It's almost a direct riff on that Moore story. (Reply to this)

	no subject thanekos 2011-02-10 12:03 am UTC (link)
	you'd think Superbatman would've hybrided with the blue outfit, at least. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject dryponder.livejournal.com 2011-02-10 01:13 am UTC (link)
	You mean the electric blue one? Why? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

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	no subject mullon 2011-02-10 12:32 am UTC (link)
	I'm disappointed that the menace messing with Superman wans't an alien Straczynski. (Reply to this)

	no subject julian 2011-02-10 12:53 am UTC (link)
	Superego is hilarious to me. And this is kind of FF-ish (I mean, the Infinite Reeds), but in the best possible way. So, hey. Better this than JMS. (Reply to this)

	no subject superfangirl1 2011-02-10 02:16 am UTC (link)
	Awesome with Titano being there. :) (Reply to this)

	no subject damianwayne 2011-02-10 02:31 am UTC (link)
	/hate for the Barack Obama expy. Otherwise this is a much better direction than the cross country emo jog, so sure. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject sadoeuphemist 2011-02-10 03:03 am UTC (link)
	Oh, haha, that was pretty unsubtle, wasn't it. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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	no subject goggle_kid 2011-02-10 03:43 am UTC (link)
	I guess this their way of saying "look we're sorry about Grounded, really we don't know that JMS was trying. Have some crack. Sweet crackety crack!" (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject goattoucher 2011-02-10 04:25 am UTC (link)
	If the result is Superego, the "good idea", then crack me up, Sir Crackalot. That is so freaking -neat-. When was the last time you read a genuinely neat idea in comics? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject lieut_kettch 2011-02-10 04:05 am UTC (link)
	I was looking at Titano, and was hoping they'd explain him by saying, "Well, there was this one time you and Primaat got REALLY drunk." (Reply to this)

	no subject arbre_rieur 2011-02-10 04:31 am UTC (link)
	Titano! This version first appeared in one of the DC ONE MILLION stories. He and the rest of the Gorilla Galaxy are descendants of the residents of Gorilla City, who migrate to another galaxy at some point in the future. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject arbre_rieur 2011-02-10 04:57 am UTC (link)
	Also, it occurs to me that Steel would be eligible for membership in this group. That could make for an interesting story someday. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject schala_kid 2011-02-10 05:25 am UTC (link)
	OMG SuperBatman! And ewww Super-Twin Superguy why you have a mullet? Those things are never good no matter what timeline! Oh and I want to know more about Supergirl!Ming Ra-Bak Lol, seriously? Also if they don't get inspired by Clark, they will become inspired by Kara so no problem there. (Reply to this)

	no subject kenn_el 2011-02-10 05:40 am UTC (link)
	I wanted to like this, but it was done several years ago by Moore in Supreme. It's the Supremacy. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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dryponder.livejournal.com
2011-02-10 09:51 am UTC (link)

Of course, that was not future bearers of the Supreme mantle, but previous retcons of the same character. Besides, I don't think repurposing similar concepts from obvious rip-off characters is a crime. And the Fortress of Solidarity is also a way less douchey name than The Supremacy. Sounds like Moore's hero had a SUPER-EGO as well. :P

Note: I love the Supremacy and Moore's run on Supreme to bits. But I'll take an in-continuity time-defending Superman Squad over it any day of the week and twice on Wednesdays. ;)

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	no subject aaron_bourque 2011-02-10 05:51 am UTC (link)
	You know, the REAL "Must There Be A Superman" was only ONE DAMN ISSUE GOD. (Reply to this)

	no subject tahngarth.livejournal.com 2011-02-10 09:38 am UTC (link)
	This is pretty much a direct lift of the first Alan Moore story revamping Rob Liefeld's wretched "Supreme" book. I believe it was Supreme #40. Go look it up, if you haven't read it. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

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ian_karkull
2011-02-10 12:21 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, but c'mon. The expressed intent of Supreme was to take everything Superman and and combine it into a platonic ideal of the character and his story. And Moore succeeded amicably in that. It was basically All Star Superman before the concept of All Star Superman even existed, and judging by that standard, every single Superman story ever told will be a Ripoff of Supreme to some extent.

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	no subject bariman 2011-02-10 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	"If the answer is 'no' then your legacy ends with you." Er, what about Kon, Kara, and Steel? I'm sure is Superman gave up/retired, they would be there to take his place. I was a bit disappointed that the cute asian girl behind Superman in that first panel wasn't Kon and Cass Cain's daughter. waves his tiny ship flag (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject kamino_neko 2011-02-12 03:11 am UTC (link)
	Er, what about Kon, Kara, and Steel? I'm sure is Superman gave up/retired, they would be there to take his place. As Kara and John have been shown to be doing, in fact... Although the kid (don't know if he's CK or Ra-Bak) seems to be channelling the Kid. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject recognitions 2011-02-10 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	Just here for the Infinite Man cameo. (Reply to this)

	no subject kamino_neko 2011-02-12 03:46 am UTC (link)
	Also, the punny names.... Superstar and Superego, I just giggled...Supercillia got a massive groan. (Reply to this)

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