Citizen Superman

[Gob]

...Superman announces that he is going to give up his U.S. citizenship. Despite very literally being an alien immigrant, Superman has long been seen as a patriotic symbol of "truth, justice, and the American way," from his embrace of traditional American ideals to the iconic red and blue of his costume. What it means to stand for the "American way" is an increasingly complicated thing, however, both in the real world and in superhero comics, whose storylines have increasingly seemed to mirror current events and deal with moral and political complexities rather than simple black and white morality.

The key scene takes place in "The Incident," a short story in Action Comics #900 written by David S. Goyer with art by Miguel Sepulveda. In it, Superman consults with the President's national security advisor, who is incensed that Superman appeared in Tehran to non-violently support the protesters demonstrating against the Iranian regime, no doubt an analogue for the recent real-life protests in the Middle East. However, since Superman is viewed as an American icon in the DC Universe as well as our own, the Iranian government has construed his actions as the will of the American President, and indeed, an act of war.

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[liberty]

Superman verse the Iranian army…..my money is on superman unless he has turned into a pacifist.

[Long Run]

One could marvel at this latest injustice to American preeminence. Just know Action Comics is DC Comics is Time Warner is MOTU who want a one world order!

[loCAtek]

Wot? Com'on! There hasn't even been a JLA Justice League America since 1987, having been replaced by Justice League International.

Action Comics #900 Gets A Second Print
Submitted by Rich Johnston on April 29, 2011 – 8:30 pm (0) comments


It hasn’t been announced yet. But I understand that DC Comics has sold out of Action Comics #900. And they’re going back to print.

The fuss around the nine-page story by David Goyer in which Superman tells the American government that he’s going to renounce his citizenship so that his actions arent mistaken as an extension of US government foreign policy has rather gripped the press. This comic was solicited as being about Lex Luthor fighting Superman and the emergence of the Doomsday clan, but it was the nine pages in the back that has caused the media sensation.

A statement was released by DC to the NY Post and others to try and put the story in that context, pointing out that the story doesn’t show whether or not Superman would go through with his promise to renounce US citizenship to the UN and that the next issue is focussed on the Doomsday battles.

It didn’t work, obviously.

But if this really was some big evil liberal plot to de-Americanise Superman by said comics publisher, as some have speculated, they would be including that scene in the non-existent Superman Gets Chummy At The United Nations eighty page special published next week. And, as you can probably tell, that’s not the case.

DC promoted other aspects of the book far above David Goyer’s contribution, including the fifty page Paul Cornell story lead and contributions by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelhof and Superman director Richard Donner. Dark Knight movie screenwriter Goyer’s contribution was welcome but DC didn’t promote its contents one bit.

But while the old DC may have made this book returnable or pulped every copy, as they did when there was the vague suggestion that Clark Kent enjoyed a beer with his father (a root beer at that), the new DC is at least going for a second print…

As it stands, lots of copies of Action Comics #900 are being sold on eBay for cover price, with some of the variant copies getting slightly more premium prices. Once they are gone however, they are gone, and as media interest continues to grow through the weekend, it looks like, despite the massive print run, we may be about to have a speculator hit on our hands. This book is getting more publicity than, anything else this year.

And as evil anti-American propoganda goes, plenty of Americans seem to want to buy a copy.

Which is interesting. Because those who actually read the comic, seem less likely to be offended. Could this be counter productive in keeping the rage going? Or will it depend upon people actually finding a local comic shop…?

[Rick]

I want to see the birth certificate that enables him to renounce his citizenship...

[loCAtek]

How about Truth, Justice and the Soviet way?

In Red Son, Superman's rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas, an implied reason being a small time difference (a handful of hours) from the original timeline, meaning Earth's rotation placed the Ukraine in the ship's path instead of Kansas. Instead of fighting for "...truth, justice, and the American Way", Superman is described in Soviet radio broadcasts "...as the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact." His "secret identity" (i.e. the name his adoptive parents gave him) is a state secret.

Or Truth, Justice and a spot of tea?

Kal-El, instead of landing in Kansas, was intentionally sent to England. He is found by the Clarks, who, viewing a headset video found with Kal-El, learn of his origins, but mistake 'Kal-El' for 'Colin' and name him Colin Clark. Being raised stereotypically British doesn't help Colin's self-esteem, being raised to believe in the philosophy of "What would the neighbours think." When Colin's powers begin to surface, each power causes a unique problem: when he learns to fly, he smashed the ceiling, and when he acquires heat vision, he accidentally burns his mother, and is given glasses made by his father out of the glass of his space ship to contain the heat. When Colin goes to college, he meets and falls in love with "Louisa Layne-Ferret" who ignores him completely. After a tragic cricket accident (the bowler was impaled by Colin's cricket bat, the bowler afterwards said, "it only hurts when I laugh"), Colin meets the British version of Perry White, who takes him under his wing to become a reporter for the British tabloids, because his parents hated it when he used any of his powers. After a heroic save of the "Rutles" Colin adopts the secret identity and garish costume to become Superman.

[liberty]

And as evil anti-American propoganda goes, plenty of Americans seem to want to buy a copy.
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But in my opinion a lot of those people in the US are Americans for convenience only.

Death to America.

[dales]

Oh, krist on a krutch!

It's a comic book fergawdsakes!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Sounds like a spin-off of an old (late 1970's) SAturday Night Live skit titled "What If?" (or something like that). The premise was people sitting around discussing "What If's" and the two topics I remember were "What if Superman fought for the Nazis?" and "What if Sparticus had a Piper Cub?"

[loCAtek]

I remember that; didn't he eradicate the Jews?


Seems like Kryptonians impress rather easily on to the regional social dogma.