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Superman: Red Son
by Mark Millar
That. ENDING. 😮 I'll admit, I wasn't totally feeling it for a good portion. Perhaps it's recent American history, or just American history as a whole, or my distance from the Cold War, but my main thought for much of the book was 'it's downright bizarre to see the binary thinking of if Superman were raised in the Soviet Union he would have turned into a despot and of course that would never happen in the U.S.' Being raised on propaganda and being guided by suspect political influences to do wrong in the name of an ideology feels like something that could easily happen in the U.S. today.
Definitely some parallels with the Injustice storyline, Superman in a position of power for the good, which is warped, Batman heading the underground insurrection. But the one-two punch of the ending, the letter bringing it home, the line of succession and Luthor's part in it, those names and that plan, the cycle of humanity's decisons?! Damn. I get why this one looms large in people's recommendations of Superman comics.
Definitely some parallels with the Injustice storyline, Superman in a position of power for the good, which is warped, Batman heading the underground insurrection. But the one-two punch of the ending, the letter bringing it home, the line of succession and Luthor's part in it, those names and that plan, the cycle of humanity's decisons?! Damn. I get why this one looms large in people's recommendations of Superman comics.