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Superman as religious figure

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By Jason Kirk / 28 July 2006 / JLA Weblog / 0 Comments

The BBC News site has one of those standard news pieces entitled, Is the new Superman meant to be Jesus?. It’s quite a well written piece and ends with an on-the-ball comment from the author Danny Fingeroth, who says, “There is religious imagery because of the very nature of the superhero mythology – somebody with great powers who uses them to do the right thing.”

Fingeroth also comments, “And if you like Superman rather than Batman it is unlikely you will get into an argument with someone and end up dead.” He hasn’t been on too many comics message boards has he. :)

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Superman Returns

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By Jason Kirk / 26 July 2006 / Film Reviews / 0 Comments

The last few weeks have been a long wait for those of us in Europe as we’ve had to wait for the World Cup to finish before Warner Brothers’ would release Superman Returns. I hope the lag doesn’t dent Supes too badly, but was a fantastic sunny weekend and the cinema was fairly quiet when I saw it. Marvel’s top writer seems to be doing his bit to promote the film. I enjoyed Mark Millar’s piece in the Scotland Sunday Herald and if you want to see a very uneasy fellow check out the Richard and Judy threads at Millarworld. Beyond Mark’s self confessed love for Superman, there is a quiet logic to a Marvel guy supporting a DC film — if any of the superhero films tank then it could well sink the entire genre for a movie generation.

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JLA #0 Annotations

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By Jason Kirk / 25 July 2006 / JLA Weblog, Site Updates / 0 Comments

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