Adventures of Superman #41

[superfangirl1]

In the last issue of Adventures of Superman #40.

The Joker threaten Superman with denoting bombs all over Metropolis and Superman keeps Joker busy with talking to him and examining his motives.

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Comments

[nate_abril96]

How does it miss the point? Superman saying he only does what he thinks is right sounds like Superman to me. I'm generally curious now to find out. Also, agree with everything you said about Landis's Death of Superman short. That was just terrible.

[captainbellman]

It's slightly implying that Superman doesn't really have a code against killing (thus justifying very un-Superman behaviour such as, well, a lot of "Man of Steel"), and indeed further implies that Ma & Pa Kent's efforts to teach him to obey the laws of his adopted country/planet to as best a degree as he could were meaningless, if he only follows a specific moral code decided upon by himself alone.

Nobody just works out what's right or wrong all by themselves, least of all Superman - he learned to do that thanks to his excellent upbringing.

Also, the last panel with the babyish posturing is not at all Superman on his worst day. That it's probably lifted from Garth Ennis' "The Boys" - where the exact same thing happened, except with a small fighter jet and the Homelander, a Superman analogue who's meant to represent him without any of his moral code to reign him in - just makes it worse.

Superman doesn't need to remind Bats that he's very strong. Hell, if I'd been writing, he'd have just chuckled, shaken his head, and come back a second later with half of the other non-incarcerated Gotham villains tied up together in a bow.

[jlbarnett]

I think lecturing Superman after he admits to endangering people in Metropolis shows Bats needs a reminder.