http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/11/it-is-very-hard-to-tell-a-good-superman-story Comments On: It Is Very Hard to Tell a Good Superman Story by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I find the trailer only promising, mostly because the tone is unlike that of previous versions. I personally like the fact that we keep re-telling these stories (@8). That's how they rise to the level of modern mythology. Imagine the audiences in Athens moaning, "oh crap, not another play about Orestes!"

And what is the big objection (@11) to origin stories? I hear this all the time. In the case of Superman, maybe the origin really is the most compelling part (cf. the success of Smallville @11, @13). I think the origin is the part of his story where he is least in control, whether through inexperience, or ignorance of his abilities, or emotional immaturity. And unlike some other superheroes, Superman is essentially born one.

In any case, I'd be happy if it isn't a schlockbuster like Avengers/Ironman (@1). Those have their place, but they're so disposable.
Posted by stilloptimistic]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:49:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Puty]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:29:02 -0800 The Stranger lost his hair in a fire because he wasn't smart enough to jump through a ground floor window." Though I must admit that some of the Africans at the beginning set off my hand-wringing liberal white guilt alarm.

That aside, I'd love to see that brought to the screen. Or pretty much any of the ideas discussed in this thread so long ago, rather than what I've seen of this so far.
Posted by Knat]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:13:05 -0800 The Stranger "Is Superman simply not interesting enough as a fully-formed superhero?"

No.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:49:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Slog Tipper David]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:24:12 -0800 The Stranger
I find myself hoping that Man of Steel borrows from it heavily.
Posted by Hover Dog]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:00:27 -0800 The Stranger
Who doesn't already know Superman's origin? The 70's Superman movie was an origin story. Hell, Smallville spent years covering that ground.

Is Superman simply not interesting enough as a fully-formed superhero?
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:00:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Knat]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:56:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pg13]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:19:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:03:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by thelyamhound]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:38:37 -0800 The Stranger
Man of Steel, like Batman Begins, is it's own entity, so fingers crossed. It really is one of the best trailers ever made for a comic-book based film.

Nerd bonus point: when Superman is about to fly away and crouches down, we see snow, dirt, and rocks around him begin to swirl and float into the air, like in anti-gravity. Pretty overt nerd shout out right there to the deep revisionist nerdery that all his powers come from an energy field that Kryptonians generate. That made me pointlessly happy to see, since it's such a cool and logical twist on how a character like Superman does the absurd things he does, even by comic book scales.
Posted by Joe Szilagyi]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:06:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by blip]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:06:00 -0800 The Stranger
Every issue since has felt like issue #2 of a 3-issue arc—lots of complications and crises, with no context, coherent story, or emotional involvement.
Posted by PEM]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:57:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Doctor Memory]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:56:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:53:58 -0800 The Stranger
Superman looks like the Dark Knight unfun man-dressed-as-flying-mouse-movie-takes-self-too-seriously-when-is-Ironman3-out type of dumb.
Posted by mubhappy]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:48:28 -0800 The Stranger