Superman image makeover: The New Emo Hipster Man of Steel?

So it's basically emo Peter Parker in a Superman suit. Lame.

If he wears skinny jeans, I'll write DC Comics a nice angry letter.

So what, Superman is old-fashioned and he probably doesn't age quickly anyway. Maybe he's just getting with the times. It's better than the red and blue energy Supermans or Mullet Supes.

Ain't nothing wrong with a pair of tight jeans. But yeah, this is fucked.

This reminds me of Spiderman 3.

Mope.

Besides, it's a retelling of his younger years, quit being so old. The regular, boring current Superman stays the same.

It looks like it's just some elseworlds one-shot or series. But it the same thing as when they had the death of superman storyline and had the 4 of them running around, and then when they said they were changing his costume for good and his powers were now all energy based, and then that wasn't good enough and they split him into Superman Red and Superman Blue. It's because it gets everyone all riled up for a couple months and then they can eventually come back to the original costume and blare all over the cover THE ORIGINAL IS BACK! and they'll sell a couple hundred thousand extra copies with that.

DC are WeTallDid.

I don't see why if they're wanting to capture some of that twilight/girl market they don't just come out with a new series of Superman's Gal, Lois Lane, like they had back in the 50's. Then you could mary-sue the hell out of her and have the emu superman. Probably even could get whatsherface to write some of it. She's probably desperate to give some sort of legitimacy to her career.
Plus it'd be about as goofy as those old 50's comics were.

I immediately thought you were referring to Six. Don't know why.

I had a bunch of those Superman's Gal, Lois Lane and Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen comics that I bought for a quarter back in the 80's. Man, they were just total shit.

This is why i don't like big superhero comic books, there's always a reboot or a resurrection every few years or so. Boring.

Yeash, or you get sucked into a long, complicated overreaching storyline, only to have the editors at some point go, "Oh, hey, you know what? Fuck it. Never mind."

Fuck you, the uncanny X-Men.

Their biggest problem is, with trying to get as many issues of superman or x men or spiderman or whoever out in a month, they got 4+ writing teams working on each different title. There's no way possible that can work well!

Dave Sim had the right idea. just go 300 issues and tell the guys story and then kill him off. problem is I could never get interested in Cerberus.
But they did a good job with like Sandman, Preacher and Y the last Man, just taking them through 60-75 issues.

There were some really good Cerebuses.

There's like a compendium now of all the issues bound together into volumes. I'd totally get that it if weren't, like $600.

Cerebi?

Really tempted to photoshop this

I looked up Phoenix from the X-men on Wikipedia and it's ridiculous how much they've done with the character. I think even Emma Frost was Phoenix for a few issues. It was totally convoluted and over-done. One sequel was enough.

I guess for me, if there is one iconic "Manly" dude that is supposed to be more "Manly" than any other guy... it's supposed to be Superman. I mean, he had to give up his superpowers just so he wouldn't rip up poor little Miss Lane to pieces with his supercock, for Christ's sake!!!

He was the American Prince Charming. The last bastion of manhood. I mean, sure when Christopher Reeves did the whole broken back thing that put a bit of a chink in the whole affair... But still, he lived because he had played Superman and therefore his balls were made of steel!

Superman isn't brooding. He isn't complicated. He's a guy that likes to punch through walls, beat up bad guys, save the girl and maybe use his x-ray vision on a few skirts. He's the son of fucking Krypton and his ONLY weakness is KRYPONITE.

Now it looks like all Lex Luther has to do is put on a Cure song and he's start crying and run off to call his therapist about how mean Lex is. That's fine for a normal human... but not for Superman.

Superman isn't a man! He's an alien!

Also the few Smallville episodes I ever watched Clark Kent was pretty emo not quite hipster but definitely emo.

I don't remember this. How so?

“We wanted to show a younger Superman at the early stages of his career, struggling with his identity and his place. He realizes he doesn’t belong anywhere and doesn’t fit in.”

Earth One is an alternate version of the main DC universe that writers and artists are going to use as a setting for a shared continuity of modern revamps of DC characters.

bahaha, you asked..

Superman isn't brooding. He isn't complicated.

Truth. Justice. American Way.
there's nothing complicated about that.

Ew, I hate Smallville.

I hate Superman...maybe that's why I thought he was emo...? Superman is the reason real superheroes are out of work, does he have a green card?

I read some article that said the last Superman movie didn't work because superheroes these days are complicated, complex people and Supes isn't. I bet they're doing this to gear up for the next movie.

Apparently heroin's a bitch to overcome. Even for Superman.

Hmmm...throw in a lip piercing and have him ride around on a fixie then maybe I'd buy it. *sigh*

Seriously, even Kelly Osbourne isn't dressing like a sissy version of an '80's Goth anymore.

Yes, it's the end of the world as we know it.

I just came back from Barnes n' Noble. I saw the comic in book form. I don't think Clark Kent wearing a hoodie with a jacket over it qualifies as a hipster.

I think it'd make more sense if they at least kept this to a Superboy title. At least then you already got the angsty teenager stuff. Doing it with a SuperMAN just seems awkward.

He doesn't look emo to me. He looks like he's going to shoot up his school later. If I were a supervillain, I'd be more afraid of the hipster version of Superman.

Anyone seen the new Wonderwoman for this NBC thing? She looks like she's made of plastic.

That costume is bullshit...both versions.

Yeah, it's really awful. The first one just looked like a halloween costume, and the second one looks like the top half of a halloween costume with some kind of riding jodphurs. It's not like they tried to make the costume any more realistic in terms of practicality, so I don't see how either of the options presented are any better than having her run around in star spangled hot pants.

Plus, the casting is bullshit. If I was Lynda Carter, I'd be offended.

I thought they were going to make a movie, but no, it's a tv series. Fail.

These were my thoughts too. I was so disappointed I almost threw my wonder woman underoos out the window.

This is kind of off topic, but the other thread about greatest super hero made me start thinking about some things, and then it gave me the need to vent.

Superman was given just about every super power there is. And he was only given one weakness - kryptonite. But kryptonite can be blocked with lead (they would keep it in lead boxes and stuff). So why didn't Superman ever wear a lead suit? He would hardly notice the weight - he can stop a speeding locomotive and carry airplanes...

He has put on a lead suit. He's rarely exposed to kryptonite, and I think lead can cause cancer if exposed for too long. Also, I think it might block the sun's yellow rays. I don't really read comics, but this is what I understand from having watched the old cartoons... and science.

I've come to the conclusion that I really like Superman.

He's Superman! He can't get cancer!

But I think he does get his powers from the sun's rays, so I guess there's that.

Yeah, Kryton had a red sun, remember? That's why they don't have powers on their own planet.

If you thought Earth One was a weird way to do Superman,

wait like 3 weeks.

Grant Morrison is in charge of the Supes reboot.
Now, All-Star Superman is one of my all-time faves, and I did like New X-Men,
but you know this won't be a tribute to old timey Clark. This will be Grant bein' Grant. Expect the weird.

Also, just sayin': SUPES DON'T NEED ARMOR. He's fuckin' Superman!!

A lot of the reboot costumes suck. Especially Tim Drake. Worst screw job of them all.

This reminds me of how they redisigned the character of Dante for the new Devil May Cry game and how everybody hates it saying how 'Emo' he looks: