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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Politics / Books / Nerd Teabaggers Are About to Get Furious at DC Comics

Posted by on Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM

SPOILER WARNING! If you are one of the three people left who regularly reads Superman comics on a monthly basis, you should stop reading immediately.

Seriously: This is your last warning.

Okay. According to Comics Alliance, Superman renounces his U.S. citizenship in a short story in today's Action Comics #900. Here's the relevant panel:

superman-citizenship-1303916053.jpeg

If the right-wing blogs get a hold of this one, there's gonna be hell to pay, especially when somebody realizes that David Goyer, who wrote the story, is also the screenwriter of the upcoming Superman movie directed by Zach Snyder and starring a British person as Superman. So they're neutering America's greatest superhero and turning him into a thug for the United Nations? This could make the Captain America mess look tame in comparison.

 

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Will in Seattle 1
Well, of course.

He's Canadian.

What do you expect - he resides at the North Pole for god's sake ...
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on April 27, 2011 at 2:07 PM
balderdash 2
Oooooohhhhhh, I cannot WAIT to read the Freeper reactions.
Posted by balderdash http://introverse.blogspot.com on April 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM
3
Teahadists, not teabaggers.
Posted by Chicago Fan on April 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM
4
Don't have to be a tea partier to be upset by this I got several liberal friends who this is irking.
Posted by Democrat1234 on April 27, 2011 at 2:14 PM
sirkowski 5
He's an illegal alien anyway.
Posted by sirkowski http://www.missdynamite.com on April 27, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Jason Baxter 6
Guess I'm one of those three people? This year's Action Comics run by Paul Cornell (starring Lex Luthor up until this point) has been great!

Oh, I'm sorry, were we talking about politix?
Posted by Jason Baxter on April 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM
Will in Seattle 7
@5 no, Canada allows for refugees, even if the "Land of the Free" doesn't.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on April 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM
8
I never read Superman with much reverence or respect so I don't like it.

I always hoped DC would take a more nuanced route with the character and make him a blatant and blind-spotted instrument of Teabagger idiocy. There's a market friendly ambiguity there and the old guard of justice lovers can get their entenred yucks all the while.

Then again this stuff isn't for kids, it's for fat old white dudes with ponytails so nuance is asking a lot.
Posted by General I. Zations on April 27, 2011 at 2:39 PM
9
@3 TEABAGGIES! i just made it up, and am quite fond of it. "Fuckin' soggy teabaggies!"
Posted by Adrian Ryan on April 27, 2011 at 2:41 PM
10
@5-- right, isn't he an illegal alien? (All I know is the Christopher Reeve movie, so maybe I'm mistaken).
Posted by rca on April 27, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Last of the Time Lords 11
Until they make a gay and black super hero ..... I have no interest
Posted by Last of the Time Lords on April 27, 2011 at 3:05 PM
12
@11 Black Lightning isn't just a lube.
Posted by You're Welcome on April 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM
balderdash 13
@11, if I recall correctly, there was at least one - Goliath - until they killed him off.

sadtrombone.wav

I might be making up the "gay" part, though.
Posted by balderdash http://introverse.blogspot.com on April 27, 2011 at 3:36 PM
14
Probably a greater percentage of secessionists in the Tea Party than in the normal population.
Posted by cliche on April 27, 2011 at 8:18 PM
15
Wait.

Superman has US citizenship? When did that happen?

I'm sure Clark Kent does. But are they telling us that Superman, as Superman, went through some sort of naturalization process, did the paperwork, and so on? Does he have a separate driver's license and Social Security number as Superman than he does as Clark Kent?

Come on, having him say that he doesn't just serve US interests, and as a powerful being from another planet, he's uniquely suited to seeing the whole planet AS a planet, fine.

This is just stupid.
Posted by Lymis on April 28, 2011 at 4:46 AM
Backyard Bombardier 16
@15: I, too, am disappointed at the lack of factual, administrative rigour regarding the naturalization status of the super-strong flying alien who shoots beams of heat from his eyes.
Posted by Backyard Bombardier on April 28, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Akbar Fazil 17
I am fairly certain at one point Superman was given honorary citizenship.
Posted by Akbar Fazil on April 28, 2011 at 11:52 AM

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