Superman: Space Age

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Noble Demon: Brainiac, of all entities, is concerned with saving the multiverse by extracting all the worlds' best heroes in a chance at stopping the Crisis. When Superman and the League fight him to a stalemate, he withdraws, and decides not to destroy Earth because it would lessen Superman's chances of joining him. He also gives Superman one last chance to save himself as the universe ends. I would say it's about the need for hope in a world without it. I think if you're a Superman fan, you're going to get that. If you're not a Superman fan, you probably need to get that.

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Journalism plays a major role in this story. Can you talk about Superman’s relationship with the medium?The 1960s were a turbulent time for our world. While we thrilled to the music of the Beatles, TV shows like Star Trek and spy thrillers like the James Bond movies, outside the realm of entertainment, things were chaotic. America experienced a Presidential assassination, the torrent of the civil rights movement, a high-stakes space race, and the always looming threat of nuclear war. It was a difficult time for everybody, but what if they were Superman? Uniting the critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell and Eisner-winner Mike Allred for the first time, this series promises fans an unforgettable journey through U.S. history and culture starring our beloved characters. I definitely wanted her to start like she did in the Golden Age where she's doing the sort of human interest or ladies journal-type pieces and then gets thrust into the biggest story of her generation: the Kennedy assassination. That's where she makes her name. But I also wanted that Kooks and Kranks article to become important to the story in that one of the Kooks and Kranks turns out to be the Pariah, who is not a Kook or Krank at all—he's telling Superman, in a very real fashion, what's going to happen to the world. I like using that for dual purposes. Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end ( Crisis on Infinite Earths) and there is nothing he can do to save it. Sounds like a job for his alter ego…Superman! But nothing lasts forever, as Pariah notes, and the end of days approaches faster than one could guess. How Superman spends Earth's final years may be the key to saving them all.

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Superman: Space Age Book One shows that anyone can be a hero.This comic highlights the human heroes in Superman's life, from journalists like Lois Lane to activists like John Lewis. This issue also explores Clark's relationship with his work as a journalist. It's clear that he truly enjoys writing as much as he does flying through Metropolis. Superman and Lois' narration makes a lot of sense, but there is a lot of it to sift through, especially as other characters and teams are introduced. While this can be exciting for fans of said characters, Superman: Space Age could benefit from keeping the focus on Superman and his main connections instead of trying to deliver a broader look at the DC Universe. Demoted to Extra: The main five Justice League members all get some highlights and character moments except for poor Aquaman, who isn't even seen participating in the final battle. Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Lex Luthor is ultimately more of a Batman enemy than a foe of Superman. He competes with Bruce Wayne at the beginning of the story, and is sent to prison before Superman becomes publicly known. When he's released 20 years later, he focuses his efforts on trying to absorb Wayne Enterprises, dismissing Otis' idea to use Kryptonite against Superman, and never directly confronts the Man of Steel once in this story. Against my will, yes it did. Especially in the end when there's the nuclear crisis. I am not going to say I'm a fan of Superman IV, but there are a lot of nods in this book to both the films and the past Superman comics. That might have been an unintentional Easter egg on my part. I love that Lois was writing the Kooks and Kranks column. It reminded me of her debut in Action Comics #1 where she was responsible for writing “sob stories.”Chekhov's Gunman: Brainiac shows our Superman a world that had already destroyed itself, leaving only its Superman, in an attempt to get him to join him. Superman decides to give that world renewed hope by transporting his Earth's inhabitants' DNA structures there. We wanted to show Superman as an evolving concept about how none of us come out fully formed as who we are. We're the source of influences, and the influences begin in our childhood. I wanted to show those influences and how characters like Jonathan and Martha Kent, and the holographic projection of Jor-El, as well as meeting Lois Lane for the first time, how these things helped make Superman into Superman. He didn't just come out fully formed from the head of Zeus. Death Equals Redemption: Bruce lets himself be killed fighting the Joker to both stop his plan and atone for his own mistakes. Eureka!" Moment: Flash's ship-in-a-bottle gift gives Superman the idea to use Kryptonian crystals as an ark for humanity. Uniting the critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell ( One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Eisner-winner Mike Allred ( Silver Surfer and Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams) for the first time, this series promises fans an unforgettable journey through U.S. history and culture starring Superman.

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Red Herring: Kryptonite's existence and potential as a weapon is mentioned repeatedly, but never used, even when Otis expends Lex's resources to buy some. Pyrrhic Victory: Lex cements his victory over Batman, Wayne Enterprises, and the world the day the world ends. To add insult to injury, the fact that he refused Superman's DNA extraction means nothing of him remains on the new Earth. Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Superman and Batman are never as close here as they are in the comics and most other adaptations. Notably, despite both being active for over 20 years, Superman never learns that Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, even after Batman’s death. It's definitely a Superman story, but I wanted it to be about how Superman is sort of the product of all the people around him, and about how as the symbol of hope, what you hope to accomplish is that other people will be drawn to it. Other people will follow or at the very least will try to also create hope where they can. That's really what this story is about, and that is where the rest of the Justice League and the DC Universe comes into play. Starting in the early 1960's and continuing to 1985, the year of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the story is a Period Piece exploring Superman and Batman as they wrestle with the hardships of saving humanity, as well as what that means as the world both changes around them and stubbornly stays the same.Superman's catchphrase historically has been truth, justice and the American way. But I feel in a lot of ways, the institution that has embodied that the most has been journalism. It's about telling the truth, standing up to power and using our historic freedoms of the press, as real or imagined as they have been in the past, to mean something. It's really in that way that Lois kind of becomes the biggest influence on Superman, because he sees the courage it takes to tell the truth to power and to go out and report on wars and events without being bulletproof. That sort of courage is what he, somebody who is impervious to danger, should at the very least aspire to. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bruce retiring as CEO to focus on being Batman leads the unscrupulous Maxwell Lord to take over, directly leading to Gotham's gentrification and Bruce's own death years later. Freudian Excuse: The Joker targets Bruce Wayne because he lost his daughter to the fires the company set when Maxwell Lord was CEO. I love the contrast between Superman's relationship with both of his fathers. What was your take on that? Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end (Crisis on Infinite Earths) and there is nothing he can do to save it. Sounds like a job for his alter ego...Superman! Superman: Space Age from critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell (One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Eisner-winner artist Mike Allred (Silver Surfer and Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams) will be available in comic shops on July 26, 2022.

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Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end ( Crisis on Infinite Earths) and there is nothing he can do to save it. Sounds like a job for his alter ego…Superman! Superman: Space Age from critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell ( One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Eisner-winner artist Mike Allred ( Silver Surfer and Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams) will be available in comic shops on July 26, 2022. Superman comics were published in the 1960s, but they didn’t lean into contemporary events the way this story does. How did these events shape your version of the character? It is implied that this story is set on a Pre-Crisis universe and the events in the present (1985) take place during the first Crisis. One of Superman's great powers, which never really gets talked about much in the comics, is his ability to listen. How he absorbs the wisdom of others, and lets it become part of him. How he takes the best attributes of other people and uses them to grow, without which he would be an absolute terror. You don't want somebody in power who doesn't have that ability to listen and to grow and to respect the wisdom of others. So, I wanted to really make that an important part of his development in this first volume.This comic also has an interesting role for Lex Luthor. How did you come up with this interpretation of him? Bittersweet Ending: Superman dies, but his actions gave everyone on his Earth a new chance at life and gave an alternate Superman a whole Earth's worth of hope. Outliving One's Offspring: The origin of this continuity's Joker involves him wanting vendetta against Wayne Enterprises because of his daughter Tabitha dying in a fire that was caused under Maxwell Lord's ownership of the company. Taking You with Me: The Joker refuses to let the children he's holding hostage go unless Bruce wears a clown mask and lets the police snipers shoot him so he can make a clean getaway with a Bruce Wayne mask. Bruce instead makes it so both he and the Joker are shot dead.