Well, 2020 sure ain't 20/20, eh? If anything, the times are the complete opposite of clear sight. And, hells - no wonder i can't find Superman. We live in a world where the inspiration for Lex Luthor (modern post-Crisis version) is president of the United States, and the man who was making the Superman movies is someone who doesn't believe in even the concept of Aspirational Heroes and thinks that anyone who does is an idiot.
The Odd thing is, this isn't the first time we've been stuck searching for Superman in 2020 while racist assholes run amuck. We did that 40 years ago...
Let's hope we can stop the racist villains in our world, too.
Superman 2020 did return for four more tales over the next 13 issues.
And later in 2020, Superman & Lois get their own tv show again. I don't know exactly how that relates, but i'm looking forward to it.
The Odd thing is, this isn't the first time we've been stuck searching for Superman in 2020 while racist assholes run amuck. We did that 40 years ago...
Let's hope we can stop the racist villains in our world, too.
Superman 2020 did return for four more tales over the next 13 issues.
And later in 2020, Superman & Lois get their own tv show again. I don't know exactly how that relates, but i'm looking forward to it.
page art by Curt Swan and Joe Staton from Superman #s 354 & 355 (1980)
Amazing parallels to the time we actually live in. It wasn't the job of these entertainments to predict, but the fall from the ideals of congenial citizenship is shocking. That nativist impulse is sadly always with us and is ascendant in recent years.
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I'd had it in the back of my head for a couple years that i needed to remember to run Superman 2020 when 2020 got here. But i hadn't read the stories in ages and totally forgot how well it dovetailed until i pulled them out again.
ReplyDeleteAnd here i was thinking they'd just be good to run because of the year and a better Superman III.