Cracktopia: Superman #112: "Superman's Neighbors"
Lord of the Rings Online has been patched and is massively buggy, so I have time to post a little Golden Age fun while my guest and husband curse the fates and rail at cruel, cruel game patches.
You know, I'm really starting to think almost all the Golden and Silver Age Superdickery comes mainly from the Lois Lane comics. Because for every example of arrogant behavior on Superman's part, there's a decent little story like this one: "Superman's Neighbors."
Sure, we can debate over the image of the paternalistic Superman watching over everyone and safeguarding their lives, but I rather like the image of Clark constantly looking out for everyone around him. It's an oddly woobie image, the Invisible Man playing guardian angel to the oblivious people around him.
There's a secondary story about Clark's neighbor, Ross, who sees Clark's strange behavior and leaps to entirely wrong conclusions, but it's not important enough to detail, really--it's just a pretext to showing Clark in day-to-day action.
I have to say, Clark, that's an...unorthodox way of jogging someone's imagination.
Super-imagination. Uh-huh. Though I kind of like the idea of Clark as a literal muse.
And the line, "No matter how thick the walls, they cannot shut out Superman's sympathy with his fellow men" is actually rather moving.
Hey--Alex Ross? The artist? Cool...
So Alex Ross has been going to...to...detective correspondance school. Somehow I doubt Batman approves.
Um, yeah, so Ross has decided that Clark Kent has a secret. He's got the wrong secret, however.
Superman yawning and falling asleep in his armchair: too adorable for words. And woobie Clark at the party, constantly fretting over his neighbors...I just want to hug him so much. :)
You know, I'm really starting to think almost all the Golden and Silver Age Superdickery comes mainly from the Lois Lane comics. Because for every example of arrogant behavior on Superman's part, there's a decent little story like this one: "Superman's Neighbors."
Sure, we can debate over the image of the paternalistic Superman watching over everyone and safeguarding their lives, but I rather like the image of Clark constantly looking out for everyone around him. It's an oddly woobie image, the Invisible Man playing guardian angel to the oblivious people around him.
There's a secondary story about Clark's neighbor, Ross, who sees Clark's strange behavior and leaps to entirely wrong conclusions, but it's not important enough to detail, really--it's just a pretext to showing Clark in day-to-day action.
I have to say, Clark, that's an...unorthodox way of jogging someone's imagination.
Super-imagination. Uh-huh. Though I kind of like the idea of Clark as a literal muse.
And the line, "No matter how thick the walls, they cannot shut out Superman's sympathy with his fellow men" is actually rather moving.
Hey--Alex Ross? The artist? Cool...
So Alex Ross has been going to...to...detective correspondance school. Somehow I doubt Batman approves.
Um, yeah, so Ross has decided that Clark Kent has a secret. He's got the wrong secret, however.
Superman yawning and falling asleep in his armchair: too adorable for words. And woobie Clark at the party, constantly fretting over his neighbors...I just want to hug him so much. :)