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  • Toward a Red Planet (Superman goes Communist)

    05/16/2003 11:20:08 AM PDT · by adam_az · 70 replies · 5,463+ views
    National Post ^ | Monday, May 12, 2003 | Jeet Heer
    (note hammer and sickle on chest!) Joseph Stalin and Superman would seem to have little in common except their shared nickname, "the Man of Steel." Stalin was a brutal dictator who murdered millions, while Superman is the mythical embodiment of truth, justice and the American way. Yet in Superman: Red Son, a new three-part comic book series, the first of which has just been released by DC Comics, writer Mark Millar posits an alternative universe where Superman grew up on a collective farm in the Ukraine in the 1930s rather than in the idyllic Midwest town of Smallville, U.S.A. Indoctrinated...