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]
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.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a blast from the past.
ReplyDeleteWorth viewing if only to watch a grinning Al Franken gleefully “heil” his Nazi superiors.