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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
Muy buen libro, sin textos faciles, y con personajes complejos aunque breves. Me gusto bastante
Out-freakin-standing. Easily a top-ten comic read all time.
I'm generally not a big Superman fan, but I came across this comic run while playing "Injustice: Gods Among Us" on my iPad a few years ago. The Red Son characters were part of a card pack in that game and were probably the best team you could have. That seemed like such a neat idea for a story; and when Comixology had a BOGO on DC comics, I grabbed "Watchmen" and this as my freebie. I was not disappointed :)
I envisioned communist Superman being a completely different character than the original one that grew up in Kansas. I figured he'd be a mustache-twirling super-villain that was bent on world domination (comics aren't usually known for their nuance). It turns out that assumption was only half right. In this story, Superman is basically the same character we have known before. He still had the same parents and inclination to save the human race. The only difference is that he grew up in a society that believes they can enforce what's best for everyone. He does wan to create a perfect society, but he wants to do it without any wars or bloodshed. Nice! And America isn't a black-and-white enemy to Superman and the Soviets, it's just the one country in the world that still believes in freedom of choice and will not submit to the communist regime. It makes sense. The world isn't a bizarro world, it's the same world with the protagonist having a different point of view. I was really on board with that. And being told from Superman's prospective made me gain a lot more respect for the character as a whole.
Definitely in my top five favorite comics! Aside from the Superman twist, we also get different versions of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Batman (actually my least favorite character of the bunch), Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro-Superman, and some other minor villains I can't remember.
P.S.
I really enjoyed the ending as well!
I envisioned communist Superman being a completely different character than the original one that grew up in Kansas. I figured he'd be a mustache-twirling super-villain that was bent on world domination (comics aren't usually known for their nuance). It turns out that assumption was only half right. In this story, Superman is basically the same character we have known before. He still had the same parents and inclination to save the human race. The only difference is that he grew up in a society that believes they can enforce what's best for everyone. He does wan to create a perfect society, but he wants to do it without any wars or bloodshed. Nice! And America isn't a black-and-white enemy to Superman and the Soviets, it's just the one country in the world that still believes in freedom of choice and will not submit to the communist regime. It makes sense. The world isn't a bizarro world, it's the same world with the protagonist having a different point of view. I was really on board with that. And being told from Superman's prospective made me gain a lot more respect for the character as a whole.
Definitely in my top five favorite comics! Aside from the Superman twist, we also get different versions of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Batman (actually my least favorite character of the bunch), Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro-Superman, and some other minor villains I can't remember.
P.S.
I really enjoyed the ending as well!
Spoiler
I never quite bought into the idea that Superman was an alien from a completely different planet; that just happened to look exactly like humans (even eating and breathing the same as we do). By turning him into a time-travelling human that came from a much more evolved version of humanity (dieing from our Sun turning into a Red Giant) makes a lot more sense. I wish this were his real origin story.
Une uchronie, c'est imaginer comment les choses se seraient passées si telle ou telle condition s'était ou ne s'était pas réalisée. C'est un "et si", un what if. Et si l'Allemagne avait gagné la seconde guerre mondiale, comme dans Le maître du Haut-Château de Dick ? Et si un homme omniscient et omnipotent permettait aux USA de gagner la guerre au Viêtnam, comme dans Watchmen de Moore et Gibbons ?
Et si le bébé Kal-el, futur Superman, dans son petit vaisseau spatial fuyant une planète mourante n'avait pas atterri en plein Kansas mais au beau milieu de l'URSS stalinienne, devenant un super objet de propagande, un modèle du parfait soviétique travailleur ?
Je ne suis pas une grande fan de Superman ou en tout cas je n'achète pas trop ces comics même si petite j'adorais la série Smallville.
Pourtant j'ai tout de suite été attirée par la couverture, par le concept : un Superman soviétique, arborant le marteau et la faucille en lieu et place du "S" sur son costume, un Batman fils de prisonniers politiques assassinés, une Lana Lang devenue Lana Lazarenko, un Pete Ross devenu Pyotr Roslov, une Loïs tout de même américaine, femme du grand méchant de toujours, Lex Luthor. Toute cette idée est géniale. J'aime énormément les uchronies, les univers parallèles et imaginer les héros et vilains dans un autre contexte. Je n'ai clairement pas été déçue et cela m'a même donné envie d'en lire davantage de Superman.
J'ai aimé que ce symbole de l'impérialisme américain soit renversé, en fait.
Et la fin, quel twist... !
Et si le bébé Kal-el, futur Superman, dans son petit vaisseau spatial fuyant une planète mourante n'avait pas atterri en plein Kansas mais au beau milieu de l'URSS stalinienne, devenant un super objet de propagande, un modèle du parfait soviétique travailleur ?
Je ne suis pas une grande fan de Superman ou en tout cas je n'achète pas trop ces comics même si petite j'adorais la série Smallville.
Pourtant j'ai tout de suite été attirée par la couverture, par le concept : un Superman soviétique, arborant le marteau et la faucille en lieu et place du "S" sur son costume, un Batman fils de prisonniers politiques assassinés, une Lana Lang devenue Lana Lazarenko, un Pete Ross devenu Pyotr Roslov, une Loïs tout de même américaine, femme du grand méchant de toujours, Lex Luthor. Toute cette idée est géniale. J'aime énormément les uchronies, les univers parallèles et imaginer les héros et vilains dans un autre contexte. Je n'ai clairement pas été déçue et cela m'a même donné envie d'en lire davantage de Superman.
J'ai aimé que ce symbole de l'impérialisme américain soit renversé, en fait.
Et la fin, quel twist... !
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3 stars story, plus 1 star for the nice twist at the end. As much as I'm not a fan of DC Universe, this was a pleasant thing to read. I've probably missed most of the injokes though.
Fun, alternate take on Superman with a great ending. I think I would have prefered to have Superman be the only one different. The changes to Jimmy, Lana and Batman didn't really fit since those weren't a result of Superman landing in Russia. Still, very enjoyable.