If the Iranians shoot at the peaceful protestors (with Superman in the group) the number of bullets bouncing off of the man of steel and hitting his protestor friends has to go up.

If he wants peaceful he should simply grab the leadership of Iran and fly them off to an island somewhere.

I’m working on a theory that politics is either the most pernicious virus known to man, or it’s the ubiquitous ‘grey goo’ that the futurists get their panties in a bunch about. Or maybe it’s like copier toner.

In any case it gets everywhere, into everything and is virtually impossible to get rid of without destroying the object into which it’s gotten.

My alternate theory is that politics is the anti-Christ come to bring us to our knees..

Not that I particularly care about comics, but honestly, does politics have to pop up in everything these days?

OMG thousands of pimply faced basement dwellers wont know what democracy is…

How on earth would Superman be a citizen anyway? Did he take the test or something? He wasn’t born in the country, and even if he had been, he has a secret identity and “Superman” isn’t part of any country. This is just ludicrous.

I will say, if they were actually treating this issue for what they’re saying they are, then this might be a fairly interesting issue to discuss.
What WOULD the geopolitical consequences of someone like Superman be? To what extent could his actions be taken as American foreign policy? Is it right that this should be so?

But, just like the whole Civil War thing a few years back, they’re not really looking to discuss this issue at hand. Civil War could have been super interesting – to what extent are these superheroes – vigilantes – subject to the people that they’re supposed to protect? Is it right that they should be able to carry on their anonymous vigilantism? But instead of actually discussing that they just turned it into one big “OMG evil America Republican government invasion of privacy etc. etc.”

I assume the same thing will happen here. Who wants to read interesting philosophical “what-ifs” when we can instead bash America?

This is what I posted on another site on this issue:

I don’t comprehend this oft-repeated here notion that Superman as an American doesn’t make sense. He spent the entirety of his formative years on a farm in small-town America living an unremarkable rural middle class lifestyle. To say that he is just as much Indonesian, Liberian, or Portuguese as he is American is nonsensical in the extreme. Not to mention the fact that it’s long been established that Superman is the inverse of Batman in that Superman is just a name people call him. To the man himself, he’s always and simply Clark Kent from Smallville. He honors his home planet and the nobility of his birth parents, but he is, at heart, the product of American values inculcated in an American small town by American friends and adoptive family.

The international element to Superman has always been to represent the good will and charity of the American people regardless of, and distinct from, the elected officials in power. Superman served as a metaphorical extension of the American peoples’ vast voluntary capacity for charity and compassion towards those who, for one reason or another, have fallen on hard times or who are not as fortunate as we (Americans) are. This should be, and has been, decisively divorced from any actions perpetrated by the American government itself. Hell, the whole point of books like Red Son or True Brit for that matter was to show that Superman would be a far different person if his ship had landed somewhere else on Earth. These are meant to contrast with the distinct and iconic Superman who is the way he is, all other things being equal, precisely because he landed in America.

To encapsulate this misreading and self-deception about Superman “American-ness,” I offer the following example. I’m personally a huge Tolkien fan and have studied him and his work at the bachelor and master’s level. So much of what he wrote resounds with me profoundly and deeply, but you know what? I fully realize and accept that nothing in Middle Earth is about America or Americans. It’s about England and the Anglo-Saxon Germanic peoples that settled in the British Isles and from whom Tolkien traced his lineage. Just because Tolkien’s works appeal to me and have a universal, even international quality does NOT mean I would ever selfishly trivialize those works by, say, claiming that they’re not intrinsically English or that they belong equally to me as an American. I would also especially take offense at Aragorn showing up at the UN to undermine Gondorian sovereignty because the way of the Dunedain and the wisdom of the elves are just “not enough anymore.” This is a petty attempt at being topical and globalist at the expense the contemporary world’s favorite star-spangled punching bag, and I really wish people (my fellow Americans in particular) could see this as the insulting tripe that it is. Between this and the revisionism of the G.I. Joe movie, I just don’t understand why people have such a problem if Americans are anything but ashamed of their nationality.

Considering that this is Dhimmi Comics, who recreated Wonder Women’s costume as to make it less offensive to Muslims, this move comes as a surprise to anyone?

Considering that this is Dhimmi Comics, who recreated Wonder Women’s costume as to make it less offensive to Muslims, this move comes as a surprise to anyone?