Tag: Superman

You've all heard the story, in the late 90's, Tim Burton was scheduled to direct a Superman film entitled Superman Lives, which was to...

This exhibit of works from Craig Yoe's original art collection has already garnered stellar accolades - tonight you can see why. And that's not...

This week DC has been revealing new looks for its core characters, including some startling fashion changes. The new looks have been revealed in various places We've cobbled it all up for you below but here's the shorter version:

Of all the comics projects announced this far from DC after Convergence, the one that arguably has fans the most excited is Superman from author...

Superman has evolved! He has a new power—a powerful solar flare which leaves him -100 energy for a day—and using that power has just...

Guest post by T Campbell. Can the soul of Western civilization be found in a pair of red briefs? Was our first great superhero at his strongest, his noblest, his superest, before modern interpretations stripped him of his underwear? Is there a connection? A generation ago, when those red briefs were an inseparable part of Superman’s design, he was the most familiar superhero by a wide margin, leading the field in film adaptations,[1] headlining cartoon shows,[2] and even winning over famous media critics who were fiction writers in their own right. Even now, if you believe superheroes have anything to say to American culture or the human experience, you sort of have to start with him, because he’s the prototype. Umberto Eco called him “the representative of all his similars” [3] and Harlan Ellison described him as one of “only five fictional creations known to every man, woman, and child on the planet.”[4] Born in the early hours of a visual, easily reproduced medium, he was popular enough to codify most of what being a superhero meant. The Oxford English Dictionary even mentions him by name in its definition of “superhero”:

Here's a scene you might not see in the upcoming Superman vs. Batman film. Amy Adams and Henry Cavill accepted the ALS Ice Bucket challenge in...

Keeping up with comics is ridiculously expensive if you want to keep up with a number of titles that come out every month. Not...

This week Jorn Romita's first Superman comic debuts, a fairly notable event in that Romita has been known all his career for his Marvel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fEkba8B5gwA Via their DC ALl Access video series DC has confirmed that the new team on Superman will be writer Geoff Johns and artist John...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling giving WB the copyright to Superman and setting aside a 1998 copyright...

Week four wraps up the review copies, with another slightly-uninspiring collection of comics. The first two weeks definitely felt a little stronger, or perhaps...