Posted on 07/31/2015 4:49:56 PM PDT by Bratch
The latest issue of Action Comics finds Superman battling a foe on the streets of Metropolis, but this time he isn’t taking on his rival Lex Luther. Instead, he’s battling the police, which has some people outraged.
“There’s some fans that are alienated, a portion of the older fans," said Dimitrios Fragiskatos, the manager of Midtown Comics in New York City. "[But] younger fans seem to be embracing it.”
The new issue comes from the minds of Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder, who have imagined a much darker story for arguably the world's most iconic superhero. The comic has been making waves for its controversial theme as the parallels to the riots in Ferguson and St. Louis are impossible to ignore.
In the issue, Clark Kent’s secret identity has been revealed, he has been stripped of most of his powers and he’s ditched his tights. Instead, Kent wears just a T-shirt and jeans, along with tatters of his Superman cape over his fists.
The downtrodden hero returns to a town that is fearful of him. Although a group of his supporters decide to celebrate his return, the police department soon arrives to break up the party. One of his supporters gets unruly, the police get angry, and before long, a full blown riot breaks out. The comic ends with Superman punching a police officer in the face.
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Oh, well, better then.
Any episodic relation to the pictured mob-bugout of Africans? ..... from .... America? (I guess?)
bump
Hmmm, maybe I’ll start checking out the Star Wars stuff then. As I said, I am enjoying Star Wars Darth Vader. I figured since he was bad, he’d be the only one worth reading.
I read through a whole lot of Green Lantern. There was a Muslim Green Lantern fighting discrimination, of course, but he was there only briefly.
if you dl it, probably ,my fave arc were Knights of the Old Republic story arcs. The Sith lords were literally kicking Jedi ass and right after Vader died when the Empire troops re-assembled into more dangerous guerilla fighters.
He's not a hipster, with 3 days of stubble, wearing jeans.
Huh, I never noticed that Superman had flesh colored eyes, and Batman and Robin have no pupils in theirs.
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