NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/callahan/14037

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From: [e-mail] (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: superman
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:01:00 +0000
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In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael S. Schiffer)

You're right, I'm sure, Superman isn't dead. It's fashionable in
comics to rework teh invincible and therefore (hmmm) omni-solvens
(solving all problems - I wish that was a real word) hero to
something more flawed and human just as has been done in many other
genres. The rise of the anti-hero. To that extent, what Superman
originally stood for may be dead. But the Superman character I'm sure
will be back. I *keep* hearing and seeing stories where Batman dies -
this guy seems to vacation in a coffin! - but he's always back at the
end.
By the way - Mary rubs her nose shyly - I *think Superman is Marvel
and Action comics ratehr than the Beast of 5th Avenue (oh, they
moved, I know but 666 5th Avenue is a *neat* address!)
I gues we need all those sorts of heroes - the clean men, the tired
and skirting round the law heroes, the by-the-book and bare knuckle
fighting heroes, the dying for love of people or planet or lving on
to fight alone heroes...... they're all a comfort and inspiration to
me...
She hefts her glass - "to the images, still and moving, that move us
all! See you next year Superman"
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