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#2 Action Comics, by Sholly Fisch, Pascal Alixe and Vicente Cifuentes
The Story:
Sand Superman goes around giving people powers, to make them realize they don’t need them to improve their lives. This kid, however, goes above and beyond:
YES.
Let’s analyze this: this kid has no idea he just became part Kryptonian, the precedent being the other people who were also surprised that they got Superman’s powers.
All he knew going into this was if he tried to protect his Mom, he’d get his butt handed to him by an abusive dad as ugly as a literal butt, and as insecure as that butt’s owner at a gerbil removal procedure.
This man.
And yet the kid stands his ground. No weapons to point at the enemy. No superheroes subtly intimidating the bad guy. Just a kid seeing abuse being done to someone and saying, “AW HELL NO.”
Anyway, there’s a side-effect to each of the individual Kryptonian powers: for example, superstrength minus invulnerability = broken wall, plus broken hand. Also this:
That font coloring is the text equivalent of mumbling.
I like his gentle diplomatic, mildly formal tone. It’s not patronizing: you know where he stands, but he says it in a way that the mother doesn’t feel bad for knowing it. I can’t remember the last time a superhero said the words, “Consider this”, and meant it purely.
Anyway, Sand Superman finds Clark, and instead of criticizing him for retiring as Superman, the sand creature thanks the man for having been an inspiration to so many people for as long as he did and explodes into a rainstorm of life-giving fertilizer, like the ending to a violently mistranslated Pinocchio anime.
“WH-WHY?! DON’T EXPLODE YOURSELF! I…I LOVE YOU!”
Anyway, barring Sand Superman’s ‘exit’ (and his barely readable font) this issue was a wonderful balance between ‘Super’ and ‘man’. It doesn’t sacrifice the ‘human struggle’ angle that tugs at the heart, or the ‘superpowers’ angle that appeals to the imagination.
Which, I guess, is what Superman is all about.
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Also, a thought about Nightwing, Incorporated and its um, ones of members:
Guess I don't I need to tell him to suck it, since by the looks of that last panel, it looks like he's trying to do it already. Aw, man. I kid Grayson because I love the guy.
P.S. As long as we’re speaking about voices, has Batman ever said the word ‘yeah’ in the DCAU? It sounds too, uh, colloquial for him. As far as I can remember, it’s always ‘Yes’, or ‘It is,” or ‘they are.’
#2 Action Comics, by Sholly Fisch, Pascal Alixe and Vicente Cifuentes
The Story:
Sand Superman goes around giving people powers, to make them realize they don’t need them to improve their lives. This kid, however, goes above and beyond:
YES.
Let’s analyze this: this kid has no idea he just became part Kryptonian, the precedent being the other people who were also surprised that they got Superman’s powers.
All he knew going into this was if he tried to protect his Mom, he’d get his butt handed to him by an abusive dad as ugly as a literal butt, and as insecure as that butt’s owner at a gerbil removal procedure.
This man.
And yet the kid stands his ground. No weapons to point at the enemy. No superheroes subtly intimidating the bad guy. Just a kid seeing abuse being done to someone and saying, “AW HELL NO.”
Anyway, there’s a side-effect to each of the individual Kryptonian powers: for example, superstrength minus invulnerability = broken wall, plus broken hand. Also this:
That font coloring is the text equivalent of mumbling.
I like his gentle diplomatic, mildly formal tone. It’s not patronizing: you know where he stands, but he says it in a way that the mother doesn’t feel bad for knowing it. I can’t remember the last time a superhero said the words, “Consider this”, and meant it purely.
Anyway, Sand Superman finds Clark, and instead of criticizing him for retiring as Superman, the sand creature thanks the man for having been an inspiration to so many people for as long as he did and explodes into a rainstorm of life-giving fertilizer, like the ending to a violently mistranslated Pinocchio anime.
“WH-WHY?! DON’T EXPLODE YOURSELF! I…I LOVE YOU!”
Anyway, barring Sand Superman’s ‘exit’ (and his barely readable font) this issue was a wonderful balance between ‘Super’ and ‘man’. It doesn’t sacrifice the ‘human struggle’ angle that tugs at the heart, or the ‘superpowers’ angle that appeals to the imagination.
Which, I guess, is what Superman is all about.
---
Also, a thought about Nightwing, Incorporated and its um, ones of members:
Guess I don't I need to tell him to suck it, since by the looks of that last panel, it looks like he's trying to do it already. Aw, man. I kid Grayson because I love the guy.
P.S. As long as we’re speaking about voices, has Batman ever said the word ‘yeah’ in the DCAU? It sounds too, uh, colloquial for him. As far as I can remember, it’s always ‘Yes’, or ‘It is,” or ‘they are.’
