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  • September 11th, 2012 9:55am

    hearthcricket:

    Jim Lee: Ripping himself off and actual iconic couples (Lois & Clark in For Tomorrow, Bruce & Selina in Hush) because Superman and Wonder Woman are either not inspiring enough to be iconic in their own right yet, not inspiring enough to get his creative juices flowing, or both. I’m not sure. Regardless of how consciously and deliberately he made his artistic choices, one wonders what this says about Mr. Lee. Is he a hack, a one trick pony, or all of the above?

    I’m not really a fan of Jim Lee, but I don’t really have a problem with how he’s reused poses. At least, unlike Liefeld, he has some talent. 

  • September 10th, 2012 6:12pm

    fyeahsupermanandloislane:

    The World Health Organization reports that suicide is one of the three leading causes of death for people aged 15-44, and estimates that each year approximately one million people die from suicide. Statistics show a 60% increase in suicides over the last 45 years, with 90% of suicides associated with mental health disorders including depression. To combat the growing problem of suicide and attempted suicide, the WHO collaborates with World Federation for Mental Health and the International Association for Suicide Prevention on World Suicide Prevention Day. Observed in the United States as part of National Suicide Prevention Week, today is meant to raise awareness and transmit educational materials to persons or the loved ones of those affected by depression, addiction, self-injury and other topics concerning suicide.

    It’s on this day that many comics readers remember what is arguably the most affecting moment of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s graphic novel All Star Superman, where the Man of Steel interrupts a young girl’s suicide attempt and reassures her that although things may seem painful and hopeless, she has the power to endure and that things will get better.

    Originally published by DC Comics in 2006’s All Star Superman #10 (and available now in the collected All Star Superman graphic novel), the one-page scene became one of the most heavily proliferated Superman images on the Web and passed into Internet legend last year when a Reddit user credited it with dissuading them from committing suicide.

    Read the Reddit user’s original post and the rest of this article from COMICS ALLIANCE here.

  • September 10th, 2012 2:40pm

    To me, the core of that attraction is that she is a better reporter than he is. Think about being Superman for a second. The Olympic record for weightlifting is 1,038 lbs., but you could lift more than that as a child. The record for the 100 meter dash is 9.58 seconds, but you can travel over 51 miles in that time. Going to Vegas? You don’t need your X-Ray vision to win at Blackjack, because you can just count the cards while holding down a conversation about nuclear physics. Without really trying, you are better at just about everything than anyone else in the world.

    However, (as Mark Waid once pointed out in a podcast with Marv Wolfman) none of that really translates to your chosen profession. Typing really fast does not help your prose. Being able to lift a tank does not help you convince a source to go on record. It is as near to competing straight up with normal people as Superman would ever be capable of. Even then, it comes easily enough to him that you get a pretty lofty perch at a great paper very early in your career. It is just in this one context, there is someone better than you are: Lois Lane.

    As mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, you reach up for the first time in your life and she rejects you.

    To me, it is an inversion of the Luthor story. Luthor sees someone above him and feels hate. Superman sees someone above him and feels love.

    — Dean Hacker, comment on “Giving Lois Lane A Second Look, For The First Time” by Kelly Thompson (CBR: She Has No Head!)