Superman losing its.........Reassurance?

Mabey its just me, mabey its me getting older (but from what i heard this isnt the case for many readers) but superman is just missing something that it had a long time ago, A excape from reality. I was reading some old superman comics (I got action 625 today for cover price, 2 pages of superman...what a rip) and they have something these new comics dont have. Mabey its that the old superman 'has the anwser to everything'. The old superman whould have kicked domonious and doomsday to hell just by pure strength but by a clever plan and he would have done it in 1 issue!!! Superman was always one step ahead. He used to have all the anwsers but now we are seeing a more real superman with real life problems. I dont read comics to hear about other peoples problems I read them to escape my own. Im not just talking about pre-chrisis im talking about even 91, ill go as far as 95. What is the cause of this? Does DC even realize what there doing to him? How about the new superman movie, a pregnent lois? Sounds like a problem to me. I dont want to hear about it, I have enough of my own worries. Is it just me or are there fellow fans who fell the same way.

~K-mare

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You summed it up nicely.... Well said....and right on target ! JoN

Yeah! i finally wrote something someone aggres with (with the execption of hating JP's work)! Anyway i posted this on a DC board about supes and many people aggred as well.

I also sent a similar letter to a editor of a supes comic, just to see what he said. ill let you know if i hear anything.

~K-mare

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I think it is the 'Spider-man syndrome'- the idea that if having your hero not win every fight is interesting, then having him lose more than he wins must be even better. In fact having your hero suffer major and minor setbacks every issue is a goal to strive for.

Excluding the wedding what is the last HAPPY event that occured in the main titles. Right now Luthor is still getting away with crimes because Superman can't prove how crooked Lex is, Clark is unemployed, and Superman has lost his icon status in the DCU after the Dominus stuff. While I assume he is happily married, you couldn't prove that by what we see. Clark has been at odds with Lois during both the Millenium Giants and Superman Rex stories. And when they aren't fighting they get almost no on-panel time.

We need some upbeat, up lifting stuff to occur in Clark/Superman's life. And more than just a panel here or a one-shot there. While the book would be boring without some conflict, Superman is one of those guys who should at the end of the day be happy.

The really bad thing is that you sometimes cannot even get involved in the stories any more.I've been reading Superman/DC for 35 years on and off and this is the first time I've thought that the writers didn't care.I'm sure it isn't true ,but just occasionally you fell that they are rushing the ideas.I'm sure that they have always had to rush to get finished but at least most of the time the basic story was OK.Sure,sometimes it was a dog ,but at least it was usually only one issue that it affected,not 25.Ilike Superman to win in the end .That's the whole point.

Spider-man syndrome, never heard that used before. I stoped reading when that whole clone thing went on for a year.

I suprized superman isnt putting a (krypotnite) bullet in his head with all that stuff thats going on.

~K-mare

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Greetings, ladies and gentlemen: Lord Jonny1500 wrote:

I just can say that's not my case: I don't use comic books as an escape from reality but as a complement to it. The same reason why I look at pictures and read other kinds of books: I find it amusing to see somebody who does what nobody can do in our world, but also find interesting to see that even that kind of person has problems; that, as on our lifes, there's nothing that grants a 50% of good events and 50% of bad ones and things can go bad for quite a long time; at the same time I like to see the strength of a character, the inner strength: that is sometimes something to complain about on Superman titles on these days, but not so much as some people complain. That's what makes superman an icon, a symbol, and besides other 'names', SPECIAL: he's not just another escape pod from our lifes.

Oh, the movie subject: I didn't liked it, neither. But not because Lois was pregnant (that was strange as it was going to force a heavy change) but because the whole bad bad script. Can't nobody on WB understand that witha comic book they already have the script and script-board done and just must make some minor changes, that the story is *THERE*???

At your feet, KalEl el Vigilant