By Robin Jones
HAIL HYDRA!
I had to get in on it eventually, even if it is two months late… Hello again, it’s back, my almost annual column of rubbish, twaddle and occasional news!
In a throwback to how I initially started this column, I’ve decided to switch up how I write Papercuts and Inkstains. It’s been a long time since I last wrote one, and that’s unfortunately down to working more, wedding planning and actually writing my own comics. So, in old school Papercuts style, I’ve been asking you guys to pick which book I should read over on my twitter! Since the first story you all picked for me was the fantastic All Star Superman from Morrison and Quietly. This time around, I’ve done my usual lazy ass thing and decided I’ve wanted you to pick between Mark Millar, Dave Johnson and Kilian Plunkett’s Red Son and Geoff Johns’, Richard Donner’s and Adam Kubert’s Last Son. Therefore I took to twitter with #RedSonvsLastSon and you voted!
Just like Highlander, there can be only one, and it was clear that the winner of the quickening here was Millar et all’s modern classic Red Son! A wonderful twist on the classic origins and mythology of Superman, Millar presents to us a world where the infant Kal-El landed not in Kansas with Ma and Pa Kent, but in the Ukraine on a collective farm in the heart of Soviet led Russia. Within this world, Superman is brought up with farm workers whose values of truth, justice and world view is wholly different to the American as apple-pie upbringing he had in his traditional origins. How does the arrival of a superhuman being become utilised by the Soviets and how would a communist Superman differ to our “normal” Superman, brought up with the values and beliefs of the beating heart of capitalism? What effects would this have on the Cold War and just how would America, devoid of a Superpowered being of her, act in defense and retaliation at the news? These are just some of the questions Millar decided to raise and answer within Red Son.
Millar’s writing is, more often than not, highly provocative, and the themes he explores within Red Son are equally so. Within this 3 part inverted geopolitical tale we see an America divided, an economy crushed, an ideology shattered and a monstrous alternative to truth, justice and the American way! The fate of the capitalist west is left in the hands of the brilliant yet morally skewed Lex Luthor, whose own private ambitions and drive to defeat Superman at any cost threaten the world at large. The status quo is also shaken up by having Lois be the estranged wife of Luthor, hiding an obsession with the Man of Steel but never acting upon it. Luthor, with his brutal cunning, must stop the expansionism of the Soviet Union, under guidance of both Stalin and Superman himself, and save the West from an almost inevitable twilight. What Millar does is present us with a character study, albeit a skewed one. By reversing and restructuring the political background and warping the familiar origin tale, we get a piece that examines the concept of nature vs nurture, gone are the comforting and reassuring constants of Kal-El’s past, what we have is an alien…alien.
Millar also sharply brings into question, the geo-political and religious structures of our world. Moving within the zeitgeist, Millar takes a concept which is widely questioned, the argument of theoretical assumptions of ideology vs their implementation and practice, and helps show the discrepancies on both sides. Capitalism isn’t the be all and end all, it’s a social and ideological construct which can be heavily flawed, as is the socialism and communism. Millar also highlights the fact that even the best intentions, whether political or otherwise, can have unexpected, almost devastating consequences. These subtle arguments within his writing parallels the political situation today, with countries acting with the best intentions, but ultimately causing more harm than good. It’s a clever way to mix up things within the medium and enhances the impact of Red Son greatly. There’s also the argument surrounding THAT ending, a controversy which sees many claim it ruins the story. I disagree. I felt that the ending was a suitably Alan Moore-esque way of neatly tying things together. It’s an Ouroboros situation, a never ending cycle with a gnostic influence, perhaps Millar is playing on the Godless ideals of a communist society, where Superman must continue this cycle, learning through his own self reflection that he can do more good for the world by letting it flourish on its own two feet, with the memory of his work being the catalyst?
It would be criminal of me not to mention the artwork within Red Son, from the 50s influenced style, the sci-fi beauty of the later pages, right through to Bamankopf and his fantastic Russian fur hat. The whole artwork from Dave Johnson and Kilian Plunkett compliments Millar’s writing wonderfully. The way the art evolves over time, moving from the golden age style in part one through to a grittier, more modern style for book three helps to show the passage of time and Superman’s loss of innocence. By evoking Soviet-era propaganda posters, it helps plant the story in world which seems very real, and conjures up the fear and uncertainty of the Cold War era.
I implore you all to read this story.
Now, in another returning theme, I am asking you all related questions to the stories you all pick for me! This time around, I wanted to ask you all what Superman meant to you, with Red Son twitsting the Man of Steel’s ideals and emotions, I felt it only pertinent to see what you all felt about the big blue boy scout?
So readers… Here what you all felt #SupermanMeans to you
#SupermanMeans to me: Hope. If an Alien can love earth more than its inhabitants, it gives us something to look up to!
What #SupermanMeans to me? Based on what I’ve read in the New 52 nothing but confusing stuff lol!
#SupermanMeans Well the thing is, Superman is really a US Farmboy. Hes the ultimate immigration story, especially since the 80s as they’ve moved away from Super Science Superman.
#SupermanMeans Though at times admirable, [He] has the mental capacity of a gnat. I prefer Batman, hardened by life’s cruelties. Superman just seems oblivious to them
#SupermanMeans Though I don’t really have a personal connection with Superman,he’s the ideal, not just for heroes but for people. He’ll make the effort to improve things for people. With powers or without he’ll stand up for what he believes in & he’s usually nice while doing it.He’s for everyone. When u need it; an inspiration, protector & friendly face.
#SupermanMeans: he’s an idea, a sign that we can all be better and do better.
#SupermanMeans Superman is the story of who we should be. Not who we are. He says no matter how different you are you’re still capable of doing great things, even in the face of something seemingly impossible. That’s Superman.
#SupermanMeans Superman represents the golden age of comics… That time is over.
He represents, honour and respect. He is the type of person we should all strive to be like.#Supermanmeans
#SupermanMeans wearing tight red pants on top of a blue gimp suit.
#SupermanMeans Superman is everything I’d hope to be. A timeless icon.
#SupermanMeans moral heroism aligned with a chiseled conscious. Epitome of a comic book archetype.
#SupermanMeans seeing as I’ve just written a thesis about aspects of the character, he has become the bane of my life 
Superman means a happy childhood spent watching Lois & Clark and fancying the shit out of Teri Hatcher!
#SupermanMeans Do the right thing as much as you possibly can
Superman means an icon that stands for the things we as humans are incapable of doing. That level of truth, justice, honour, and respect etc….it takes an alien to lead us He also shows how power can corrupt, might take a little kryptonite but it happens.
#SupermanMeans He is my idol, the one person I always look up to. I love his morals and personality. They’re inspiring.
#SupermanMeans that trying to make the world a better place starts with just one person. (Please have a read of Jeff’s blog about why he wears the S right here, he puts forward a compelling argument for how we should all view the world)
#SupermanMeans he is the constant benchmark for all superheroes , in my opinion
Keep your eyes peeled to twitter guys and girls, as I’ll be asking you to choose my next book soon!
Until next time….
Rob Jones is an honourary Yorkie, but for the life of him, he can’t understand why. He writes articles, is attempting to write comics and his life ambition is to own a solid gold Donkey… For more comic news, reviews and the odd bit of sense, follow Robin on twitter @Hulksmash1985
Posted on May 22nd, 2014
Category: Blog, PAPERCUTS AND INKSTAINS VOL. 2, REVIEWS
Tags: Clark Kent, DC Comics, Mark Millar, Robin Jones, Superman Last Son, Superman Red Son, Supermanmeans
I saw Zack Snyder’s new Superman movie over twenty four hours ago, and I’m still struggling to sort out my feelings.
I saw Zack Snyder’s new Superman movie over twenty four hours ago, and I’m still struggling to sort out my feelings. The movie had a lot I walked away enjoying, a lot I walked away hating, and a lot that I found hard to categorize. It had moments of brilliance, moments of stupidity, and a strange lack of emotion. The ensuing mess of thoughts I had after watching it made my head a complete mess. It made my head a jumble of opinions, emotions, thoughts, hypothesizes, questions and more. Then I read some other reviews and my thoughts turned into a fucking jungle. I had to sit down and nail out these unwieldy thoughts; burning down the forest, mining for the rough ores, then refining them into actual sentences worth sharing. Both my emotional reaction and my critical one required separate, heavy, pondering. I think I’ve almost shaped it into its final form, which looks something like this: Man of Steel was a passable superhero movie and a terrible Superman movie.
Superman is just as mortal as Batman; the scale of the villains just needs to be different.
I was never a Superman fan. I always found the character bland, always considered him inherently challenging to write; the standard thoughts on the character really. Recently I’ve realized these thoughts are dumb. Is Superman super strong? Does he have to be threatened through his friends; important secondary characters who you know aren’t going to die? Does he refuse to kill people, which could be considered corny and unrealistic? Sure. Do you know who else that list applies to? The goddamn Batman. Just because Superman isn’t grim and gritty doesn’t make Batman inherently more realistic. And don’t give me the “he’s human” argument. Superman is just as mortal as Batman; the scale of the villains just needs to be different. The comic that helped me realize my Superman-related opinions were dumb? All-Star Superman, quite possibly my favorite comic ever. All-Star, for a director approaching the character, is a kind of Holy Grail. It embraces everything “problematic” about Superman and makes it work. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Superman is idealized, immortal, silly, fun, everything people say makes Superman “dumb.” And it’s beautiful. It’s stunningly effective, and horribly sad when compared to Man of Steel. There’s a scene in that book where Superman talks a suicidal woman away from the ledge with a few kind words. The Superman Snyder, Goyer, and Henry Cavill create would never do that. And that’s a disturbingly cynical way of approaching a character that’s meant to inspire the best in us.
By @Llyw on twitter: “There is no Man of Steel criticism more stark than the fact that Earth would have been better off had Kal-El died on Krypton.”
The film is stunning in its wrong-headed approach to the character. Its best moments are consistently flash-backs; the interactions between Jonathan Kent and a young Clark are wonderful. The tornado scene was brilliant, just brilliant. But they were all concerned with the character in the wrong way. The film seemed wholly concerned with addressing one question: how people would respond when Clark reveals himself to the world. This is a potentially interesting aspect of Superman’s origin, but it should not be the only one explored. And Superman never really got to make this choice. Anyone who thinks he actually had a choice to make missed the part where the movie plainly (like all the dialogue, which was very on-the-nose) stated that Clark was “as much a child of earth as Krypton.” Zod told him to give himself up to spare earth. Superman actively cares about at least two people who would die in the promised disaster. He doesn’t really decide to protect earth; he just decides to save the people he loves. The thing is: Superman loves everyone. Every, single, person on this planet. In the Man of Steel Superman only occasionally saves people when they are sort of within arm’s reach. Superman (barely) decides to save the earth, and he never decides to protect it. The movie never even answers its own question, making it very unsatisfying. The film never explores why Superman wants to do superhero things, it’s just an assumption he will. So in a situation where the pros of appearing obviously outweigh the cons (the earth already knows there are aliens of there) it completely counters any attempt at deriving tension from this question. A great example of a film avoiding this kind of thing is Batman Begins, which never addresses if Batman will do Batman things; instead it explores his moral lines, how much of his personal life he will sacrifice, and the nature of fear. Man of Steel on the other hand bases everything on a question the audience not only knows the answer to but also gets forced upon the main character. It’s a strange approach to the character and it affects everything. Take when Superman first puts on the suit for example. He wears his costume for no real emotional reason. His dead father gives it to him and tells him to test himself. That’s it. Wouldn’t it have been a hundred times more powerful if that moment was when Superman decided to help humanity, not from any specific threat, but as a whole? Wouldn’t that have been the more pertinent decision? Or that decision should be so inherently obvious, so blatantly the only way Clark Kent would act, that they should’ve focused on something else that actually had the potential for drama. Instead they create the illusion of a decision and decide to ignore the most important aspect of the character, the part where he does good deeds.
Man of Steel feels devoid of compassion, devoid of joy, and devoid of consequences.
The problem with the actual plot of the story was neatly summed up by @Llyw on twitter: “There is no Man of Steel criticism more stark than the fact that Earth would have been better off had Kal-El died on Krypton.” The vast scale of the destruction feels like something straight out of a Warren Ellis comic. I kept expecting the giant mushroom monster from Supergod to wander out of the rubble. In fact I was reminded of this line from Supergod: “the compression wave caused by their first exchange of blows would have imploded the eyes of anyone in a one-mile radius.” Except in Man of Steel there are people around. The destruction was so extreme it made me seriously question Superman’s morality. Building after building crumbled, killing, at the very least, thousands of people. And Superman is nowhere to be seen. Not once are we given any reason to believe Superman cares about the citizens of Metropolis. We aren’t shown that many actual deaths, but there are a few, enough to know the city is full of people. People are getting crushed, burnt, and blown apart. I couldn’t help but think of a panel from Watchmen. The one where two people, in their final moments, share an embrace as they turn to ash. I hate to sound melodramatic, or manipulative, but there is no other way to interpret that scene. Children, families, people, are being killed. Where is Superman? Dicking around in the Indian Ocean. And because Superman seems largely unconcerned with the death toll on his hands, the ending, and those who’ve seen the film will know exactly what I mean, feels particularly false. Man of Steel feels devoid of compassion, devoid of joy, and devoid of consequences. Thousands of people die and most audience members will care as little as Superman seems to.
Either the actors, or the script, failed to sell the Lois-Clark relationship.
Even divorcing my emotional response, my associations with the character, and my distaste for the direction the movie opted for; I found little to redeem it. The best beats came from a series of flashbacks that, at about the halfway point, stop being relevant. The characterization comes to a grinding stand-still in exchange for punches. The plot itself felt a little wooden. Superman’s battle with the World Engine was boring and too long. The movie has moments that are breathtaking; the aforementioned tornado scene, the wonderful (if hugely problematic) action, and the cast all come to mind. The script, however, was crude and simplistic, and the cast wasn’t given much to do. Either the actors, or the script, failed to sell the Lois-Clark relationship. Only Cavill and Michael Shannon get a chance to really shine. Mainly little story beats show off the talented cast; Cavill’s smile is perfect (just hidden in the film’s gloom), Lois Lane’s (Amy Adams) little smile when she thinks she’s avoided the FBI does more for her character than any dick-joke could, if Perry White (or the Daily Planet) had been even remotely relevant to the plot I’m sure Laurence Fishburne would have been great. Unfortunately for the film all these moments and actors were completely lost to the unwieldy script. (There were a lot of changes to the origin, and shots, meant to highlight the Superman as Christ metaphor, which I found annoying. And it’s just a dumb comparison.) It’s no coincidence the best scene in the movie is a wordless beat; David S. Goyer is much better at plotting films than he is scripting them. His films seem to live or die on the shoulders of his collaborators. Nolan’s plotting doesn’t appear to be as flawed as Goyer’s writing; which fails to sell or connect the larger story beats. The movie does look pretty, so there’s that?
Ultimately the movie, purely as a movie, is just okay. As a Superman movie it’s terrible. The sad part is none of the story beats had to be so ineffective; it was the actual scripting that broke this movie that completely tainted the character they were supposedly adapting. The entire thing felt wrong-headed, joyless, and crude. It took some great moments, some great action, a great cast, and solid ideas and assembled them all wrong. It’s like someone carved these beautiful wooden legs for a table, then let someone else put them on with superglue, and they put them on crooked. I said earlier I couldn’t imagine Man of Steel’s Superman acting as purely good as All-Star’s Superman and I’ll stand by it. In fact, I’ll go further: the thought of All-Star’s Superman behaving like Zack Snyder’s is literally saddening. Imagine that smiling, altruistic Superman winning a fight the same way Man of Steel’s Superman does. This isn’t Miracleman: the Movie. A Superman who doesn’t seem to want to help people isn’t Superman, and the movie never convinces me its approach is any good at all. I can immediately think of fifteen Superhero movies I’d take over Man of Steel. Movies with worse casts. Movies with vastly inferior visuals. Movies with vastly inferior action. Movies with better scripts, satisfying plots, and that stay truer to their source characters. Man of Steel, from an objective standpoint, is, at best, a B Minus. At best. From a personal standpoint? I have very little interest in seeing it again. Maybe the sequel will redeem some of these flaws, but I won’t make the mistake of going in hopeful next time.
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Posted on June 21st, 2013
Category: RAMBLINGS FROM THE THIRD WALL
Tags: Clark Kent, DC Comics, Harry Edmundson, Lois Lane, Man of Steel review, Ramblings from the third wall, Superman, Zack Snyder, Zod
Well we’re back!
Hello to all you Asylum seekers and a massive welcome back to the Comic Asylum, hosted by my friend and the blogger that we deserve, but not the one we need right now, Sean (@SeanFav1) Favager and myself, the big bucket of win that is Pete (@Pete_the_Red) Barrington.
Pete spent the christmas holidays relaxing and pondering what his next blog would be.
Were back for the New Year and we hope that everyone out there had a great holiday season. I would like to say that I’ve been busy over this festive period but the fact is, I just haven’t. Unless you count being busy getting fat on turkey sandwiches since Boxing Day and spending quite a few hours with my friend Jack Daniels (This isn’t a cry for help! Honest!). In the meantime, I’ve never stopped thinking about what my next addition to the Asylum might be, I toyed with the idea of doing a ‘who could play who’ in the JLA movie and a piece about Wolverine and whether a new film could erase the terribleness of the Origins story that we were subjected to (Will.i.am was in it FFS!) but I decided to add them to my list of films to preview instead. Previews for new comic book movies had sort of become ‘my thing’ now and the fact that I have had positive feedback from the ones I’ve done (Guardians of the Galaxy and Robocop to name two, please check them out and comment!) I thought I would stick with it until Sean or our Captain of this ship @InterComics tells me not to anymore. So my next instalment involves quite possibly the most iconic character in comic book history, the man that goes by many names but is simply known as…..Superman! (Cue the music!)
Quite possibly the most iconic character in comic book history, the man that goes by many names but is simply known as…..Superman!
Unless you haven’t been around much, you would have noticed the marketing campaign on Superman’s new movie, Man of Steel, has gone into overdrive as of late, we have a teaser trailer and a full length trailer, numerous stills and set pics to feast over and what we hope is the final release date so what is everyone’s thoughts so far??
The first teaser trailer introduced us only slightly to the man himself; instead the focus was on the respective father figures in the movie. Voiceovers from Jonathan Kent and Jor-El (played by Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe) introduce us to how they believe their son should be perceived on this planet we call Earth. Kent provides the more sombre ‘you can be anything you want’ type speech while Jor-El pulls no punches with his ‘you will rule humanity’ version. Polar opposite views that tells us straight away that Clark will face tough decisions in his life. The second trailer focuses more on his Earth parents where we see Martha Kent trying to calm her infant son down and we hear one specific word from Jonathan that really stands out. After a teenage Clark is seen saving a bus full of his school chums, we hear Jonathan telling him that he needs to hide that side of himself, to which Clark asks if he was just supposed to let them die and Jonathan’s response of ‘Maybe’ literally made me rewind the video to make sure I heard it right. We have always known the Kent’s to be very down the line on what is good and what is bad, so to hear this coming from Mr Kent is sure to make people sit up and notice that this is not gonna be your atypical version of Superman. It’s gonna be dark, gritty and I highly doubt that we will see any of the plot twists that have let down Superman films in the past.
Jor-El pulls no punches with his ‘you will rule humanity’
As we know by now, Henry Cavill has landed the role of Clark Kent/Superman. What you may not know is that he was Bryan Singer’s second choice to don the cape before he cast Brandon Routh in Superman Returns, and he was also in the final 3 to play James Bond before Daniel Craig was cast. He has been referred to as the ‘nearly man’ of Hollywood for these exact reasons and there is no doubting that this is the biggest role he has ever landed, but from the pics and stills we have seen so far, it is easy to see why Director Zack Snyder has chosen him. There is no doubt he can handle the action scenes, as seen in the movie Immortals, and he certainly has the right ‘look’ for a man of Krypton, but I believe the true test will come in the softer, quieter parts of the film. Interactions with Amy Adams’ Lois Lane or even if the inevitable happens and Jonathan Kent meets his maker (although if that does happen, it’s more than likely to be with a teenage Clark instead of the more adult Cavill) will really portray his acting chops. Another aspect I am most looking forward to is seeing his interpretation of the distinction between Clark Kent and Superman. Christopher Reeve is the benchmark for this as his Clark Kent and Superman were complete opposites. There was never a time where you honestly couldn’t believe that no-one could tell them apart and that is down to Reeve’s acting ability more than different hairstyles and outfits. Dean Cain was poor at this and Brandon Routh was just about passable so how they do it will make or break it for me simply because if you want me to believe that he puts on them glasses and no-one knows, then I can get on board with that but it’s got to take more than the glasses to convince me, it’s got to take some serious acting ability and with his RSC background then I have faith that Cavill can pull it off. Smaller nods in the cast have to go to Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne, who is playing the Daily Planet’s Editor-in-Chief, Perry White; we know to expect a lot of shouting from him as always. Unfortunately though, there is no mention of James/Jimmy Olsen so quite who Perry White is going to be shouting at is anyone’s guess.
Another aspect I am most looking forward to is seeing his interpretation of the distinction between Clark Kent and Superman.
The big bad villain in this piece appears to be a standalone villain, which is kind of out of the norm for comic book films these days, there seems to be a trend recently where there is always someone bigger and badder in the background, see Avengers and Dark Knight Rises for two examples. So to bring in General Zod certainly tells us that this new spin on the Man of Tomorrow is gonna start off big! It is my feeling that we won’t see Zod for quite a bit in the film as both trailers show us an adult Clark that seems to be wanting to escape his hero life (or perhaps avoid taking it up in the first place) by doing various things such as working on fishing boats and hitchhiking across country, a consequence perhaps of a certain family member dying?! The one thing I am happy about is the apparent lack of Lex Luthor in this film. I love that character but he has been too overdone in film and TV with 4 of the previous 5 films and almost 10 years of Smallville including him as the main protagonist. I can’t argue with the fact that he is Superman’s most recognisable villain but by no means is he the most powerful, I mean all he ever has in mind is another real estate scam, seriously, that guy is all about the property market! And when you have a back catalogue of villains such as Braniac, Apokolips and even Zod himself, there is so much for Superman to be involved with without even hearing the name Luthor. I am, however, certain that there will be a small mention or cameo from him somewhere in this flick and small nods of the cap to him is ok by me, just as long as the focus is on a very powerful Zod and if casting rumours are to be believed, his female accomplice, Faora. The casting of Zod was of some intrigue to me as Terence Stamp made the role his own but to bring it up to date, it had to be someone very good and someone that could make Zod seem like he could actually achieve his goals. The man chosen is Michael Shannon. I have only seen him in Boardwalk Empire but the pics I have seen of him as Zod looks like he is gonna be very menacing and will cause a whole heck of trouble for our titular hero.
The casting of Zod was of some intrigue to me as Terence Stamp made the role his own but to bring it up to date, it had to be someone very good and someone that could make Zod seem like he could actually achieve his goals.
I want to finish this off by talking about what is next after this film has been released. If this film is a hit then we are looking at a possible franchise including some of the villains I mentioned above, however if this film does not hit well at the box office then I believe this will be the last Superman film we will see in a long time, not to mention the knock-on effects this will have for a Justice League movie. Can anyone seriously see them piling so much money into a JLA film off the back of a poorly received Superman movie? I can’t. Especially if the stories I’ve heard turn out to be true, namely a Joseph Gordon-Levitt Batman and a Wonder Woman cameo on the cards that will set up that future film. Snyder went on record early in this films production to state that his film will not have any connections to a JLA film but his stance has notably receded recently on this and the fact that this film was originally slated for a December 2012 release but was pushed back for unknown reasons. Could those reasons include filming these cameo scenes and maybe adding a few more that allows for the viewer to see a possible team coming together? Honest answer is I don’t know. It could simply be because they wanted a big summer release instead of being swallowed up by the holiday seasonal movies that tend to come out around December. I for one believe this movie is going to be huge. Snyder’s previous foray into the comic book world has brought us Watchmen and 300, both visually stunning films and very true to the source material. That alone should stand this film in very good stead amongst the other potential offerings for the summer of 2013.
It’s gonna be dark, gritty and I highly doubt that we will see any of the plot twists that have let down Superman films in the past.
All this and I haven’t even mentioned that Christopher Nolan is producing!!
The reason I even have an interest in comic books and the whole comic world is because of Richard Donner and the Superman film that started it all back in the 70’s and my interest in Kal-El has not waned one bit and I am constantly on the lookout for anything connected to Superman.
I know he is not everyone’s favourite superhero and I truly believe that is because people think he is too perfect and can’t be beat but from what we have seen so far from this film in the trailers and pictures is that this will be a very challenging chapter in his history of the Man of Steel and it will not be what we expect to see!
Thanks for reading.
I’m off to put on my cape and red underwear over my jeans…
I’m off to put on my cape and red underwear over my jeans…What? He doesn’t wear them in this movie? What a crock of shit, I’m out!
Find me on twitter at @Pete_the_Red if you want to talk anything Superman!
Posted on January 11th, 2013
Category: NEWS & VIEWS, THE COMIC ASYLUM
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Clark Kent, Comic Asylum, DC Comics, Film Reviews, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Man Of Steel Preview, Pete Barrington, Russell Crowe, Sean Favager, Superman
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