What's so funny about truth, justice and the american way?

here are a few recs
superman annual number 11
Morrison's Action Comics
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen
Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane
All Star Superman
Superman:Birthright
Superman Beyond is cool
Adventures of Superman
American Alien

>>87823939
Thanks a bunch,

So was Joe Kelly's stuff good in general or was #775 a gem?

>>87824127
it was pretty good, crossed over with other supertitles a lot though

read action comics #792 and get back to me

Also pick up his Superboy run, it's a fun read

I'd also say to look for Kelly's JLA run too

>>87824414
Is that the Superboy-prime stuff people praise a lot here on /co/?

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>>87824522

>>87824414
Not op but just did. Thanks. Also them feels.

>enjoying fascist superman

>>87824522
No, that's the 90's Superboy that came out of DAROS.
Prime didn't become what he is until Infinite Crisis.

In fact, read Death and Return of Superman.

>>87825376
The Mastermen was a good read as well.

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Why not post the issue, buddy boy?

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Titano is pretty underrated.

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Trying to imagine Clark putting on a newscaster voice

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I miss President Lex.

>>87823939
Why do people prefer Birthright over Superman: Secret Origin? Johns stuff is obviously superior.

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>>87825835
Same, but I'm a Silver Age fag like him.

I think people nowadays like Birthright because it's a better "modernization" of Superman than Byrne's. More grounded, similar to Batman Year One.

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>>87825908
...but not gritty. That's what people want and I think what made the Marvel films so successful; they were grounded but not gritty.

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>Japanese super team appears
>*tink tink tink*
>YOOOOOOOOO

>>87825941
But DCAU is not so grounded and still fucking perfect. DCEU could be successful with stories from it.

>>87823870
What arc is that? Or is it a one shot?

Pls be on amazon

>>87825835
Secret Origin is the one where Clark and Lex are childhood friends?
That's definitely less good then globe-trotting Clark reporting on a central African civil war.

>>87826022
It's being storytimed right now in this thread you dip.

>>87826070
Sounds like smallville

Is that like smallville? I like smallville

>>87826070
I can't say are you being sarcastic or not.

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Wait isn't that guy in Big Hero 6?

>>87825988
I don't think they need to take stories FROM it, but they can take lessons from the WAY they adapted stories from the comics. Superman TAS took a lot of classic Silver Age stories and adapted them, Batman took a lot of Bronze Age, etc.

>>87826022
Trying to link comixology but 4chan thinks it's spam. It's Action Comics (1938-2011) #775

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>H-He's fast...!

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FEATURING
Cum-Guzzler!
Britpop Man!
The Anti Spirit of Freedom!
Lady /d/!

>>87826146
I'm actually not.
I think Birthright is better and I like how Clark's friendship with that rebel leader (Kimbe?) plays into his decision to become Superman.
I much prefer Lex to be too much of a sociopath as a child to even have friends.

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>>87826275
I don't agree but I fully respect the stance. Birthright and SO are both high quality comics, and it just comes down to preference. Which is why I'm glad they both exist and as far as I'm concerned they're both canon. Hypertime, I don't gotta explain shit

>>87826275
But they wasn't friends. Clark just met him at siscience fair and Lex was full "don't touch my stuff fucking mong" It was cool. I think it could be perfect to adapt on the screen.

>>87826275
Lex having the company and then losing it in his super villain origin is a great hook that they never do anything with, sadly.

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I love that the Elite aren't depicted to just be flat-out wrong here. If anything Superman is the actual strawman stuttering "b-but muh sooperman" while Black calmly tears apart his stance.

Then later it's flipped around.

>detected possible malicious code in file
DON'T OPEN THE DOOR

>>87826236
This story was way better before I found out this is just the writer taking out his buttfrustration at The Authority comic book.

I mean, I thought these were cool "villains", but they're literally Authority expys. Just comes across as petty.

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>>87826524
The end is a little cringe-inducing because of that. But I think it makes a good point and was necessary to show people why Superman is still relevant and is still the godfather of capes for a reason.

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>literally Men in Black
wat

>>87826615
I like how, while simple, none of these arguments can truly be considered strawmen or unrealistic. The scenario of the kids playing hits particularly close to home.

>>87826524
I mean I think Kelly makes a good point at the British invasion being some arrogant guys telling us why our heroes suck for twenty years.

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>>87826708
Yup. I have a clear memory of my friends when I was young saying Captain America sucked because he just had a shield, and Ant-Man sucked because all he could do was grow and shrink.

They're MCU fans now, of course. Not to say we don't all get wiser as we grow up.

>>87826773
I never really thought of it as a direct response to the Brits, that's a good point.

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This could have benefited from being an 80-page issue so there could be more demonstration of the Elite directly contradicting Superman in public.

As it is it's like he met them twice and suddenly it's time for the deathmatch.

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>5107
What does it mean?
I played Danganronpa

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And the Elite don't really lend much credence to their point by flying a giant space alien over the city so they can come down and murder a man of peace.

If it were more balanced, the Elite might have just kept on doing what they were doing until Superman was forced to stop them physically, and therefore the Elite were forced to defend themselves.

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>Mega-Ovum
Doesn't get more Ellis than that.

Read "For the Man Who Has Everything", OP

>>87824127
>>87823939
don't read American Alien

>>87823870
For The Man Who Has Everything
Secret Identity
Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow

>>87823870
why do people love Superman lobotomizing a guy but have a problem with Superman killing Zod in MoS?

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That's a keeper.

>>87827009
He didn't lobotomize him. Also I think that people have an exaggerated reponse to superman killing Zod in MoS, given his lack of experience and the context he was in.

>>87826938
He's trying to arrest them. They won't be able to wipe out the problems of the world if they are in jail, and since supes won't stay out of the way, from a pragmatic point of view the next best thing is wiping him out as well.

>>87826317
>>87826495
This is overdoing it on the tragic villain backstory. What nothing about how his great-aunt was raped?

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Yeah, this does make it pretty obvious who it's about.

I always thought it was just about the Authority and anti-heroes, but it's clearly more about how the idea of the superhero was shat all over for so long.

>>87827205
Seems like it borders on parody.

>>87826615
Wasn't that Kingdom Comes' job?

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Manchester Black: "I AM SILLY!"

And that's the end.

>>87826524

It may be a little petty but at the same time it still works by not directly shitting on those characters themselves in a crossover.

>>87827205
You might be underestimating how shitty the world can be for dictatorship victims and orphans.

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>>87827358
But that's exactly what Captain Atom: Armageddon did and it ruled.

>>87827333
I prefer animated adaptation actually. Dunno why. Better style and more logical narration maybe.

>>87827316
>I can say that, you know...because I am a leader myself

Heh, that wasn't as funny the first time I read this.

>>87823870
The "Superman in the 1960's" trade is a must own.

Also check out Supreme. It's Alan Moore's tribute to Silver Age Superman stories.

>>87827245
>How does it feel to be deconstructed
Yeah pretty clear here.

>>87826756
>damn you American like to hear yourselves yap
Daily recommended intake of iron.

>>87827799
I have not been able to fucking find any collected editions of Supreme, is there some reason?

>>87827990
They're out of print. The quality of the trades are shit anyway though. I have them. Some pages are blurry and there's stuff missing. You're better off just torrenting them.

>>87827398
Oh yeah, those 1970s British dictators who caused lung cancers and forced kids to work in sweatshops eat their dog, forgot about them.

Also
>lost me mum to lung cancer, mate, the world sucks *drags on his cigarette*

>>87828037
Basically what I'm doing.

While on the subject, what's the way to read Miracleman? I'm tragically underread on Moore shit, I heard the digital recolors of Miracleman are crap and original scans are the way to go.

>>87828192
The new colouring is terrible and I have no idea why they changed what worked.

>>87826938
That certainly is the supervillain way of doing things.

Up, up and away.

>>87826524
britpop man was one of the evil authority dudes that the world government put in place, funnily enough.

>>87826524
I though Chester was supposed to be an Ennis character

>>87826980
American Alien is fun

>>87833691
He might be, but that'd be pretty shitty considering how well Ennis portrayed Superman in Hitman.

>>87826773
I wish he was still good all his output for years has been complete shit.

>>87829188
also butchered, show all the violence but a character can't say nigger.

>>87833733
It's more of Ellis Authority, but basically the same guy appears during a Millar run that was more interesting with a weird lapse with another writer and finally 2001 censoring (violence and thems had to be toned down after 9/11)

>>87823870
Best ever. My favorite.

>>87834930

Fucking hell.

>>87834991
This

I always thought it was a retarded ass story. Superman stops pseudo Authority by proving that he can kill them.

>>87826996
>Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow
Don't lie to people. That's an Alan Moore story featuring Superman. It's got whores, death, everything. All it's missing is Lexiac raping Lois.

>>87837894
That was always one of Superman's things, though. He's not above tricking his enemies to prove a point. Especially in the Silver and Bronze age, a lot of the weirder Superman stories can be taken as him trying to help his friends be better people through weird sci-fi fairy tale logic.

>>87837947
Superman did some weird thing to teach his friends a lesson in the silver age, but he never threatened to kill somebody as a final punch. Especially when he wanted to prove might is not right.

>>87827275
Heat vision.
Your retina.
Invisible scalpel.
Instant lobotomy.

>>87837947
>>87838014
Since Superman is a Jewish savior character it makes sense that he would use the ancient Jewish lesson style:

God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son to show "are you kidding me? I would never ask you to sacrifice your son! God doesn't do that you dummy."

>>87827799
This

I'd also suggest Superman adventures and new 52 adventures of Superman digital first anthology.

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>>87823870
Grabbed an old recommend image.

I'd say if ya wanna quick read you don't need to know too much about continuity for.

Also don't know if it is on the list but Escape from Bizarro World a personal favorite.

What does /co/ think about the movie?
Yay or nay?

>>87838706
I thought it was cool.

>>87826824
>>87826853
>>87826872
This is a nice moment

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Superman thread? Superman thread

Started buying a shit ton of Electric Blue Superman during a sale at a Local shop. Kesel really is an underrated writer

I'm not huge on this story. The Elite come off as too strawmanny.

>>87841035
Superman Red/Blue

>Superman comics did the selling the same game as different versions meme before video game companies thought of it

>>87823870
Superman guest starring in Hitman issue 34 was pretty good.

Thanks, OP.