Truth justice & the American way No more, as Superman renounces U.S. Citizenship

[conditionfreak]

As a patriotic American, and a comic book collector, I am saddened at this news. I will no longer purchase Superman comic books or toys.

 

I am also saddened at how lightly some of y'all take and covet your citizenship of this country. A lot of people died working to give us what we have here. How sad that so many dismiss it so easily.

 

Why are you not living in Canada or Kenya? I am sure Kenya needs a lot of doctors. Canada also is short on doctors and medical care. Both have to be better than this rotten country, right?

[OldGuy]

Superman can go fist himself.

[comix4fun]

What is the "American way"?

 

 

An impediment to international marketing and licensing apparently.

[chromium]

Canada also is short on doctors and medical care. Both have to be better than this rotten country, right?

 

I believe you might want to re-think that.

[comix4fun]

What a bunch of rubbish: when will these "writers" learn that there's nothing less entertaining than "relevance", and that "mirror(ing) current events and deal(ing) with moral and political complexities rather than simple black and white morality" reveals nothing so much as a complete lack of imagination.

 

Sigh...

 

Relevant comics are only relevant to the editors, writers, & 40 year old readers.

 

John Stewart & Superman comics are relevant news sources & social commentators.

 

The Daily Show with Green Lantern.

 

Kermit the Frog is a Pulitzer worthy news reporter

 

 

He's where I got all of my relevant current events from the ages of 6 to 10....and then again from 24-37 on dvd.

 

 

 

 

 

[Sardo Numspar]

I'm throwing away my GA Actions in protest. This is absurd.

[jools&jim]

 

Question: is the devolution of a thread like this--which will inevitably come to grief--really our fault when the comic book story (featuring THE archetypal comic book character) which occasioned it is itself overtly and unashamedly making a certain kind of off-limits statement/argument?

 

Probably.

[Speedy-D]

Why can't this sort of thread stay in the Water Cooler? I try to avoid them, so I don't have to be faced with political opinions I dislike coming from people on here who are otherwise totally cool.

 

It's equally bummerish to hear how many people died for my wonderful life and how horrible our ogre of a country is.

[Ringfinger]

Ummm, why?

[jools&jim]

Ummm, why?

 

Because discussing the merits (or lack thereof), history, or effectiveness of this brand of storytelling--which is a comic book-related discussion--can only take us so far. Eventually, we get around to the ideologies and motivations behind it, and that's where we get into trouble...

[Scrooge]

While I don't mind that the background is steeped in current events, I generally enjoy stories set up around said events rather than in the middle of said events. Esp., since that also extends the shelf life of these books. Some of the relevant issues talked about in the '70's movement are no longer so hot and re-reading them now makes it that much harder for entertainment. Now, for socio-cultural studies, it's different ... but I read comics for fun, not always for introspection.

[Ringfinger]

Oh, okay.

[marvelcollector]

As a patriotic American, and a comic book collector, I am saddened at this news. I will no longer purchase Superman comic books or toys.

 

I am also saddened at how lightly some of y'all take and covet your citizenship of this country. A lot of people died working to give us what we have here. How sad that so many dismiss it so easily.

 

Why are you not living in Canada or Kenya? I am sure Kenya needs a lot of doctors. Canada also is short on doctors and medical care. Both have to be better than this rotten country, right?

 

The reaction struck me too.

 

This is a disgusting stance by DC.

 

I wish I bought their so I could boycott it now...

[Davenport]

As a patriotic American, and a comic book collector, I am saddened at this news. I will no longer purchase Superman comic books or toys.

Just don't think of it as Superman, but some nutty multiverse Earth-slime version.

 

Martha Kent would snatch that Superman's ear and drag his sorry-butt to the woodshed.

 

[VintageComics]

As a patriotic American, and a comic book collector, I am saddened at this news. I will no longer purchase Superman comic books or toys.

 

I am also saddened at how lightly some of y'all take and covet your citizenship of this country. A lot of people died working to give us what we have here. How sad that so many dismiss it so easily.

 

Why are you not living in Canada or Kenya? I am sure Kenya needs a lot of doctors. Canada also is short on doctors and medical care. Both have to be better than this rotten country, right?

 

Isn't this an over reaction of sorts?

 

I'm mean it's just fiction.

 

 

Are you taking it as a political statement?

[DrWatson]

More power to him. I'm not sure I want to be an American right now either.

 

Is Tennessee still part of the US?

I was watching the History Channel last night and discovered that part of East Tennessee actually tried to break off and become the 14th state ahead of Vermont. The state of Franklin lasted four years before it John Sevier wrangled it back as Congress would not recognize it as a state. .

 

You live right around Sevierville, don't you?

I do.

[shadroch]

Its okay with you folks that DC saw fit to have Lex Luthor elected President of the USofA but not with Superman renouncing his citizenship from that same country?

Let me go on record that if a Super- Villian ever gets elected President, I have no problems with any and all right minded people renouncing their citizenships. I'll be amongst the first in line to do so.

I'm a lot more pissed at DC for the former than for their latter action.

[shadroch]

More power to him. I'm not sure I want to be an American right now either.

 

Is Tennessee still part of the US?

I was watching the History Channel last night and discovered that part of East Tennessee actually tried to break off and become the 14th state ahead of Vermont. The state of Franklin lasted four years before it John Sevier wrangled it back as Congress would not recognize it as a state. .

 

You live right around Sevierville, don't you?

I do.

 

I own a couple of old maps that have the State of Franklin on them. It's an interesting story how Franklin became, and then unbecame a state.

[the blob]

Why are you not living in Canada or Kenya? I am sure Kenya needs a lot of doctors. Canada also is short on doctors and medical care. Both have to be better than this rotten country, right?

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I don't think Canada is short on doctors or medical care in general. In fact, they may very well have more internists/GPs (and perhaps even general surgeons) per capita than here. So, for your routine stuff, you're pretty well covered. They probably do not have as many uber-specialized specialists and what not because they're not willing to pay them the $500K they make here. So if you have some sort of bizarro one-in-a-million brain tumor, Canada might not have what you need.

[Warren Oates]

I think DC is probably mostly trying to appeal to the fans they have. Your average 12-16 year old might really dig this story. And it will probably play well to the under 30 readers as well. I note a lot of comments here, that people don't buy the book anyway. I haven't bought a superman comic since 1980.

 

Also didn't they just get rid of Wonder Woman's US flag motif from her costume. The kids buying the books don't care. And as someone else mentioned, maybe they can widen the character's appeal to other markets (or least try to).