So I finished off the first dvds of "Superman: The Animated Series" and "Lois & Clark". I'd watched the episodes, but I'd waited to finish off the dvd commentaries. I have something of a love-hate relationship with them. I enjoy hearing the behind the scenes stuff. But as with all PTB interactions, when their comments start coloring your ( Read more... )

Wow and wow. The courts have ruled in favor of the Siegel heirs for the Superman copyright. There's also a NY Times article on the subject. This isn't over by a long shot, but it's kinda fitting this came out when All Star Superman #10 hit the stands with that lovely final scene. I still don't quite get the appeal of Frank Quitely's artwork ( Read more... )

Superman at 70: The Septuagenarian of Steel: Long article on the up up and aways of a certain Superman ( Read more... )

Early Superman memories meme ( Read more... )

( Who is my ideal Superman? )

So I've capped the rest of the Fleischer Superman cartoons. They're in the same format as the previous batch, 640X480 in PNGs as rars. Again the original quality isn't the greatest and some of the episodes are really dark, but I did my best. (If you have the Christopher Reeve Superman collection, remastered versions of the Fleischer cartoons are ( Read more... )

Happy birthday Superman! You're 70 years old and you still don't look a day over 30. It must be those good Kryptonian genes or maybe the healthy farm living. Somewhere I may still have the old Time magazine that celebrated his 50th anniversary. My, how time flies... *sighs ( Read more... )

The second half of the Fleischer Superman cartoons arrived yesterday from Netflix, so I settled down for my night of sheer cartoon crack. And in that regard, these certainly didn't disappoint ( Read more... )

I'd read intriguing reviews and discussions of the old Fleischer Superman cartoons of the 1940s in several places, so I put the first dvd of the Superman Collection into my Netflix queue, which included the first nine episodes. To say it was an interesting trip through nostalgia was putting it mildly ( Read more... )

So the first volume of the depowered Diana Prince years (v1 #178-184) is out in trade paperback. I haven't decided whether I'll pick it up or not. I have been rereading the Steve Howard stories that followed, because my curiosity was piqued by some discussions online. (See also writing fic for an audience of one...) But Osgood put together a ( Read more... )