Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 4:28AM No Underwear For New 'Superman' Comic Book
The Superman comic book will get a reboot as DC Comics will launch the series all over again with Action Comics No. 1. Who says movies are the only ones to get a reboot. This will be the 21st century version and will be written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Ralph Morales. Already, the comic book is causing some controversy as Superman looks a bit different.
Gone are his famous red underpants he wears and in some instances like the one below, Superman is just in a pair of jeans and hiking boots.
It's very strange and makes you think. Why wasn't the red underpants weird in the first place? Should we be wierded out by this more normal clothing? If you think about it, this look seems much more natural and something that is more "big screen" friendly.
Still, when it comes to movie and brand recognition, Superman will always have the red underpants he wears over his blue tights. I guess it's true what they say, "if you drill something into the minds of people long enough, it becomes the truth." Superman with just a pair of blue jeans may take about 20 or 30 years to get used to.
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Well, the old look with the red cape, logo and underpants and blue eveything else mighta' looked cool in the 30's and through the mid 20th century, but it DOES need to be rethought. I like the "traditional supersuit" in the first picture if it "grows" around him via Kryptonian technology. And the second picture has an interesting primal, archetypical quality like the Hulk or Wolverine. The only thing I don't like there is the Superman logo. If it were like some medallion from Krypton that he "sticks" on, or if like The Punisher he spray paints it on because his family seal still has great meaning to him, I could dig it, but otherwise it looks out of place.
They are not underpants, they never were underpants and if you were any kind of serious journalist, you would not refer to them as if they *were* underpants. Yes, it is a long standing joke that Superman is wearing underpants outside his clothes because a certain portion of his leggings are a different color than the rest. But you know as well as I do that they are not underpants. So why treat it as if that is true? It is merely playing into the notion that things as they are are no good, like the idiot who posted before me that likes the new suit "if it grows around him". It won't do if he's just wearing a suit. That's too normal. And he doesn't like the Superman seal, either. So, I guess he (like DC) want a Superman that bears as little resemblance to Superman as they can get away with.
Good luck with that. Let's see if it stops the sales collapse or accelerates it.
Well that's true, you don't want to change it too much or it's too foreign to it's older fans and it becomes something SO different from the impression newer fans have about what it's supposed to be - based on the reception that older fans maintain about it - that they reject it too.
But at the same time revision DOES add a bit more depth and answers questions one may have by the simple image we have of things - in this case "Where did Superman get the suit? What's it made of? How does he get it on? Where does he have it drycleaned" Does he have it drycleaned? Is it machine washable?" So if in the process of revision - which is what they're doing at DC with all the characters right now - they can answer these questions (Well, maybe not exactly THESE questions) and basically provide a little more depth to the characters and their backgrounds and cover some things they never did before - it just adds a little more dimension and some more things to explore for fans new and old - but mostly new fans 'cause the older fans buy less comics as they get on in years. Sorry. It's just a fact of life.
If you go back to the basic original story, Martha Kent made the suit out of the material that he was wrapped in when he crashed on the planet. The suit naturally became imprevious to damage supposedly due to a natural aura given off from Superman. If the aura effect is correct, then any suit would have the advantage. I can see going for a newer look for Superman, however, the patch jeans, work boots, did I miss something about Clark Kent, is he a coal miner during the day now. Granted i'm 53 and haven't read a comic in a while, it's just sad to see such a drastic change when only simple ones maybe needed.....
I DO wonder if maybe they're trying to get things in the comics to jibe with the new movie coming out. They did that in the eighties. The stripped-down shirt and jeans look might work in the comics but admittedly I don't see it working in the movie - at least not ALL of the movie - particularly with what I've seen of the actor they've got for it. They can either work with comic book canon on the iconic "supersuit" or they invent something totally different or maybe something even in between the two, but if they're trying to make this work for the movies - which again, I think they are 'cause they did it before - they really have to sell the idea that ultimately his suit is made from SOMETHING from his planet and it has some otherwordly properties that make it as unique on Earth as HE is. And if they can make "underpants" seem that way - okay - otherwise they need some REVISION.
Superman, is Superman. It doesn't matter if he's fighting for 'truth honor and the American way' it doesn't matter if he's wearing underpants or a new super shiny suit, he's Superman. They've drawn him so many different ways in the past, killed him, split him into a bunch of different lesser rejects, made him electric even made him Russian. At the end of the day, when all else fails the powers that be who are twisting everyone's favorite superhero into something other than what he is will be forced to find a way to bring back the Earth greatest hero. The icon that is Superman. Red-cape wearing, heat-vision blaring, blue-tight covered justice loving boy-scout that he is. If they wanted to reboot anyone it would be Aquaman, he's just not right... and nobody would give a flying rats ass if he never showed up to talk to fish for no reason ever again.
It will end up being a spin off, alternate story line waste of time. Don't get me wrong, some story lines are quite good, but its an artistic take on a classic, Batman's got millions of those type titles. But he's always Batman.
I say have faith in Supes, he won't be 'gone' for long, they can't even kill him properly, let alone change him forever. I'm all for evolution of characters, but if you're gonna make him more epic, take away his Kryptonite allergy.
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