Monday, February 10, 2020

Nothing New Under the Son

Three animated DC movies are scheduled for release in 2020, the first of which is an adaptation of Superman: Red Son. Penned by Mark Millar, this 2003 Elseworlds miniseries is set during the Cold War and imagines a world in which Kal-El crash-landed in the Soviet Union. Instead of Kansas, the Kryptonian grew up on a farm in the Ukraine and was raised as "the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact. [More]
It's been done. And back when the chronically offended couldn't forever destroy careers and lives:

No one was actually expecting a new and original idea from Opposite Day "progressives," were they?

[Via Florida Guy]   

2 comments:

vintovka said...

So is Superman going to be sent to the labor camps to become a Stakhanovite of gold mining at -50 degrees? I am sure the dwarf-like Stalin would have seen him as a rival, not an ally.

Henry said...

Wow, what a blast from the past.

Worth viewing if only to watch a grinning Al Franken gleefully “heil” his Nazi superiors.