Read The Authority. An interesting twist on the notion of your common superhero team.
And although personally I enjoy Planetary I have had trouble getting any friend to even try a single chapter.
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I was joking. I just don't find Superman himself particularly interesting. He's too good and perfect and powerful. He's a mary sue, so much so that they *had* to give him a weakness otherwise every story was the same. And then all the stories turned out the same anyway. More over, his weakness is really stupid. It's so specific that, logically, no one would have it save for the very wealthy and powerful villains, meaning that against anyone but his highest tier threats, all stories are the same, but because it's literally the only thing that can hurt him (ok, other than magic, and other equally as strong people) everyone has it anyway, and so the stories still turn out the same. Kryptonite is so ubiquitous that there was actually a storyline about Batman and Superman going around destroying all the kryptonite people had, except, of course, for the kryptonite knuckles in Batman's lead shielded belt.angelfromanotherpin wrote:I once tried to read a fantasy novel and it was objectivist bullshit.Prak_Anima wrote:I once tried to read a Superman comic and wound up in a coma because my heart stopped from the soul-crushing yawn it tore from my body.
Seriously, Supes has had a lot of writers of extremely variant quality. Maybe check to see if your one sample was just the product of a hack?
This is purely my opinion. I haven't read a lot of Superman, so I cannot actually say that all the stories are the same. They feel that way to me. And then you've got a physical god who walks around going "oh, woe is me, my entire race was destroyed and my parents I literally never knew because I was floated down the river in a basketrocketed into space as an infant are dead! I need to go to my private fortress in Antarctica to cry!" and this is supposed to be serious parts of his story. Big whoop, he hangs out with a guy whose parents were gunned down in front of him and used that pain to do good. Superman comes off as a whiny rich emo teenager.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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want to read something really good with bats and supes?
read Red Son < = that one is pure genius.
read Red Son < = that one is pure genius.
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Best Superman is from Smallville. He's not all-powerful, kryptonite is all over the place, and the kryptonite is giving other people varied powers. 2nd best superman is this.
I hate the typical superman because he's required to grab the idiot ball with both hands in order to have any sort of challenge.
I hate the typical superman because he's required to grab the idiot ball with both hands in order to have any sort of challenge.
Kingdom Come was pretty solid too.
And yes, Planetary is the best.
And yes, Planetary is the best.
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