Superman Gets New Love Life, New Pants in DCU Reboot
- July 18th, 2011
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By Rob Siebert
Editor, Fanboy Wonder
In releases issued on their web site today, DC Comics formally announced the changed that would be made to Superman and his world in the company-wide reboot this September.
Action Comics, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Rags Morales, will be set “a few years in the past,” and present “a bold new take on the classic hero.”
In this new DC Universe, Superman is struggling to find his place in the world, as he is still coming to terms with the loss of Krypton, as well as his adoptive parents. He is “more Kal-El from the planet Krypton than Clark Kent from Kansas.”
Lois Lane, meanwhile, is dating a co-worker at The Daily Planet, confirming rumors that the Clark Kent/Lois Lane marriage is no longer canon. She also has a different job at the paper. Clark Kent is living on his own.
Also, Superman will not be able to fly…at least not at first. He will be able to “leap tall buildings, but his ability to fly is in its infancy.” This is consistent with the way Superman’s powers originally evolved when he was created in the the ’30s.
The first story arc in Action will look at the origins of Superman’s costume, and will apparently begin with him wearing jeans and work boots.
While the first story arc in Action Comics will look at Superman’s recent history, Superman, written by George Perez and drawn by Jesus Merino, will deal with his present. In Superman, the Man of Steel will wear a suit that consists partially of Kryptonian armor.
Covers to Action Comics #1 and Superman #2 from DCComics.com.
For more on the DCU reboot, check out The DC Universe Reboot: Relax, This Has Happened Before.
Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! It seems creativity is dead with this generation in the entertainment industry. Everything from Star Trek to now DC have to reboot or retell origins with a twist rather than create something original or build on top of preestablish stories. It doesn’t take a genius to retell a story with a few changes here and there. It does take imagination to create great stories with characters that have a rich history to fall back on but clearly that’s too hard for the new generation of writers.
The reason they are doing the reboot – the real reason – is to secure all property rights to their iconic heroes, and to dump the ones that aren’t profitable. Superman has been in a legal battle for years now, with DC losing right over issue#1 which introduced the character. Now DC has to ‘redo’ the history portrayed in that issue, ‘taking back’ everything that was introduced. That’s why Supes won’t be flying, for example – that wasn’t introduced till later.
It’s all about legal issues, not ‘being bored’ of any of that crap. If it was about being bored this would have happened before the crisis on infite crisiseseseses.
I honestly loved the ideal I hated Smallville the show after they spilt Lana&Clark. I mean seriously we’ve seen the same old same tale about Lois&Clark love. Why not see a different tale my only beef with the new root boot is that they didnt wanna used Lana lane. Fans of her’s has been waiting on a true ending of these two for years I hope at least she’s inside the comics.