alternative versions of superman
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Grant Morrison’s as Sick of Tyrant Superman as You Are
Ever since Injustice: Gods Among Us showed up in 2013 with its take on Superman as a despot, and Man of Steel offered a take on the superhero that was more brutal than the versions that came before, the idea of the Man of Steel being anything other than a shining beacon of hope has…
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A Brief History of DC Comics’ Black Supermen
As long as the original Superman has had counterparts like Steel and, more recently, Final Crisis’ Calvin Ellis of Earth-23, there have been comics fans who struggled to comprehend — and often pushed back against — the idea of a Black Superman.