Why would I insist things I don't like remain the same?

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"HAHA look at this pathetic LOSER who is exactly where I was in life at his age. What a dickhead trying to ADHERE to my precise economoc ideology by WORKING and trying to BETTER himself."

Now I'm stuck with the mental image of Batman giving Mr. Miracle a really grim, begrudging handjob.

The only part of that pitch they followed was the worst bit - getting rid of the undies on the outside!

There's the attractiveness differential, and also the fact that in nearly every storyline, the woman is in an explicitly subservient position to the man. Even Andrew Lincoln's cuecard scene is a fucked up power play, really.

Yeah, I think Atkinson and Grant are both deliberately semi-retired at this point - Grant has talked about how his schtick is pretty limited, and kind of gets sadder the older he gets.

All Star Superman and Birthright. Do yourself a favour and give them a read. Even if they were the only good Superman stories ever told, and they aren't, they'd disprove your criticism.

I love the t-shirt/baby blanket cape/work boots look from that run. I wish the blue-collar hero stuff had lasted longer - from memory, it jumped into the 'present' of the New 52 very, very quickly.

Shit, that's a fantastic idea. I would play the hell out it.

He's saying all major Marvel and DC heroes are functionally invincible. Batman is never in any more real peril than Superman. Hell, he got killed by friggin' Darkseid and came back two issues later, albeit temporarily displaced in time.

So just ignore​ him. It's not like he's one of three characters you can choose to spend your time paying attention to. Why do people see things they don't like and insist those things need to be reshaped just for them?

Why do grown people derive a feeling of superiority from what other people choose to spend their paltry leasure time on?

Yeah he was really wearing that suit at HR's funeral hey?

Cool, well I really think we've achieved something together here today. Have a nice weekend.

Then don't. I did, and I'm not going to take it back.

I think it says a lot about the zeitgeist that people want to drag Superman down into the muck with them, but a billionaire who beats the shit out of mentally ill people largely gets off scott free.

If this was true, All Star Superman would not have been possible. If you haven't read it, do. If you have, do it again.

I get why, in this day and age, people are as cynical about power and the people who wield it as they are. But that's why we (and by we I guess I really mean the next generation) need aspirational figures like Superman and Captain America, not to see them twisted into the polar opposite of what they're meant to stand…

"Superman was created as kind of a crude representation of the Nietzschean Übermensch, only geared towards children"