Superman General

Chances are though its not gonna be well-written angst.

You did read Disassembled, right? Angst isn't exactly Bendis' forte.

edited 8th Feb '18 5:19:58 AM by kkhohoho

...Bendis does his version of the 'Over there' speech

That speech is stupid but it’s core message is good. You’ll go crazy if you try to shoulder every burden out there. Sometimes all you can do is tackle a part of the problem and hope others will do the same.

With a little refining it could actually be a great lesson for a superman book.

Superman may not be able to shoulder every burden, but he can still shoulder a lot of them. There was no reason for him not to make sure the drug dealers didn't keep terrorizing any neighborhoods period. Nevermind that he may well have sent a kid to his death.No matter how you look at it, it just doesn't work. Not for Superman.

edited 8th Feb '18 8:14:59 AM by kkhohoho

Superman isn't talking about shouldering burdens or whatever, he just arbitrarily decides that There has to be more like Here and won't help out when drug dealers (who are all black, of course) set up shop in another destitute neighbourhood and start preying on the people.

It's the most wrong interpretation of Superman in his 80 years of existence.

If I recall correctly, I thought only the lead drug dealer was black. Not that I'm defending the story.

They were all black, and the magical innocent child who talks to Superman (who Superman then sends to their burning crackhouse to tell them that he's coming back) is white.

Hence why I said it needed to be polished.

Anyway if Bendis is going to write Jon I’d like to see him differ from Clark in a way or two. Definitely would like to see how it’d go down if the two had a major disagreement.

It didn't need to be polished. It needed to be hurled into the sun.

JMS is the worst thing to ever happen to Superman.

Bendis said on the Word Baloon podcast that Superfamily fans should be "worried"

I was right to walk away when Dan and Tomsai do.

I can only hope if things do turn out badly then sales drop like an anvil.

Why can't we have nice things?

"Oh, wow, here's a thing fans love to the point where they call it the best thing to happen to a character in years. I didn't write it, though! Time to poison the well!"

I will cry if this becomes commercially successful.

Cause you know people will justify crap with "it sells well."

edited 9th Feb '18 12:03:29 PM by slimcoder

There are new graphic novels with Super Sons and Lois coming toward the end of the year. The marriage won't be touched.

edited 9th Feb '18 12:24:47 PM by LordofLore

It'll probably be angst ridden, though.

They're still together in Doomsday Clock, even shown sleeping together, so it'll likely just be a rough year and they'll sort it all out once it's time to catch up

Could be worse. Chuck Austen, for example.

That dude just popped out of nowhere and was given the reigns to the biggest comics ever. It's nuts.

No matter what anyone says, you just know Geoff Johns will be over his shoulder with a ruler, ready to rap his knuckles.

I doubt it. This is Bendis we're talking about here.

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For the longest time, any time I've heard comics fans discussing the Superman/ Lois Lane/ Clark Kent triangle, I have usually heard it described that, classically Lois loves Superman and, while Superman loves Lois, he wants her to love him as Clark, while she looks on Clark as at best a joke and at worst a worm. Having actually gone back and read old Golden and Silver Age Superman stories, I've found that, at least in my reading this isn't so. While Lois often makes it clear that she'd love to marry Superman, Superman describes his reluctance to marry her as stemming from a fear that it will mean the end of his career as Superman. Why this should be so, he doesn't say (it's hard to see how being married to Superman could put her in more danger than she already was just by knowing him, frequently at her own instigation).

That first Superman story has Clark getting a date with Lois (which she describes as "giving him a break") and later asking her why she avoids him at the office, which implies that he's asked her out before. However, in the vast majority of stories, while there are exceptions, he's generally not shown to be romantically interested in her at all. So the legendary triangle would appear to be largely a creation of fan imagination, or at the least not nearly as significant an element as most of us have come to believe.

The Silver Age stories seem more like what the writers thought that boys thought romance was like. Especially with Superman sometimes pining for Lois while acting uninterested. At some point, Lois Lane should have been content to be a Secret Secret-Keeper instead of insisting that Clark was Superman and ending up with Clark trying to convince her otherwise. Then, when he ever did tell her the secret, she could reveal that she already knew it. Everyone at the Daily Planet knows about Clark's hobby of saving the world, but just never mentions that they know it to Clark.

edited 13th Feb '18 7:05:17 PM by bookworm6390