Mark Russell · Michael Allred Superman: Space Age (Volume 1) was a limited series, published by DC Black Label. It's about telling the truth, standing up to power and using our historic freedoms of the press, as real or imagined as they have been in the past, to mean something.

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While this can be exciting for fans of said characters, Superman: Space Age could benefit from keeping the focus on Superman and his main connections instead of trying to deliver a broader look at the DC Universe. I wanted to show those influences and how characters like Jonathan and Martha Kent, and the holographic projection of Jor-El, as well as meeting Lois Lane for the first time, how these things helped make Superman into Superman. Pyrrhic Victory: Lex cements his victory over Batman, Wayne Enterprises, and the world the day the world ends.

Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Brainiac figures that Superman will save himself once the universe begins to collapse, not realizing that to Clark, everyone else's lives are more important than his own, and he instead saves the DNA of everyone on Earth. Even with the extra characters, he is the focus, and the audience will be intrigued by the themes touched on in this book, especially when the art is so captivating and fresh. The Man of Steel is an excellent figure to represent these feelings, as he is the sole survivor of a planet that went through something similar.

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And I think that's where the events of the ’60s—the arms race, the civil rights movement and the Cold War paranoia—comes into play. DC has released their October Solicitations, and we’ve listed below all the Superman publications scheduled to be released. The book begins with the Kennedy assassination and a near nuclear miss that follows immediately after, and I wanted that to be sort of the Rorschach print to which all the other main characters become responses to. Along with her work for CBR, she edits the in-development comic series Half-Dragon, and she read her short story, "The Kabbalist and the Golem," at the 2021 National Queer Arts Festival. Fans familiar with Russell’s other work, like Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles and The Flintstones, know that he likes to use pop-culture icons and nostalgia to comment on the modern day.

And I knew also that I should probably just give him as few notes as possible and just let him dazzle me with the artwork. Beyond writing and editing, she was the Film School Director at River Way Ranch Camp and the Assistant Director on the play Famous.

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It's like giving Superman the challenge of figuring out what it means to be good in a world that is spiraling out of control. Superman: Space Ageis a new limited series by Mark Russell and Michael Allred that places the Man of Steel smack dab in the middle of this pivotal decade. After years of standing idle, the young man from Krypton defies the wishes of his fathers to come out to the world as the first superhero of the Space Age. Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end, and there’s nothing he can do to save it.And perhaps more importantly, how does a man with the power to change the world alter the course of its history? A Superman greeting card is perfect for all occasions, such as Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day, Birthdays, Holidays or just to say Thanks! Adaptational Late Appearance: The Joker is normally one of Batman’s earliest enemies to show up, having debuted only a year after the Dark Knight, in the first issue of his ongoing series. They just thought they were making a comic book set in some generic present, whereas now we acknowledge what was important about that decade's history. He competes with Bruce Wayne at the beginning of the story, and is sent to prison before Superman becomes publicly known.