Hmm that is interesting. Sounds like a good read. I remember seeing the leaping to the top of buildings in the first issue but not much of the details.
I always wondered why they never gave superman psychic or other powers. Here is another question. Why didn't superman have more technology? Wouldn't he have been trained by the crystals with all of the knowledge of krypton? On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Depends on what version and who's writing the origin story. In the original > premiere way back in 1936 (?), *all* Kryptonians had powers, even on their > home planet. They traveled by leaping up to 800 feet at a time. At that > time, the basis of their powers was that they were genetically advanced and > superior to humans, and had denser, stronger bodies because Kryptonian was > larger and denser than Earth, with a higher gravity. That Superman was later > retconed to be said to be the Superman of Earth 1. > Th Superman we grew up reading about had an odd mix of powers, based on > super dense body as well as absorption of yellow sunlight. This one, to my > memory, came from a Krypton where no one had superpowers because the sun was > red (they somehow never got it straight with the superdense molecules). So i > don't think his dad knew he'd have powers. > In the movies, Jor-El states that Earth's son and lighter gravity would > give Kal an advantage over humans. > In the post-Crisis Superman, i don't believe Jor-El knew that the yellow > sun would give Kal-El powers. He chose Earth because he felt that, though > primitive, humans still had the passion and emotions that Kryptonians had > lost. In this telling, Kryptonians wore full body suits that monitored and > cared for their bio functions, didn't touch each other, didn't have sex > (babies were conceived in the lab and then grown in artificial wombs), and > didn't express affection. Jor-El wanted Clark to grow up on a planet not so > sterile. > Now that we have yet another Superman another the second Crisis, I'm not > sure what his origin story is... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:28:33 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Five Most Insane Celebrity Comic Book cameos > > > > Here's a question. When Superman's dad sent him to earth, did he know that > his son would have superpowers? > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Keith Johnson > <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> >> >> It's stuff like that that made me celebrate The Crisis on Infinite Earths, >> the aftermath of which saw John Byrne's revamping of Superman. Still some of >> the best Superman books of the last twenty years came in the couple of years >> after the Crisis. I especially loved it when Byrne had Superman kill for the >> first and only time (He killed Zod and his cohorts, who'd come to his Earth >> from an alternate reality Earth. They actually came from the universe of the >> pre-Crisis Superman, and were thus dozens of times stronger than Byrne's >> Superman. He had no choice but to kill them). That ultimately led to him >> exiling himself to outer space for a time to work on a mental issue (he >> developed a split personality due to the guilt). That's where he met Mongol >> and the device that became the Eradicator. It was also during that period >> that Krypton as a planet of cold, dispassionate people was revealed. Good >> mature stuff! >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:13:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Five Most Insane Celebrity Comic Book cameos >> >> >> >> I actually remember reading Ali vs Superman when I was a kid. That's how >> you know a book has jumped the shark. :) Almost as bad as the Harlem >> Globetrotters on Giligan's Island. >> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Every so often, famous folks appear in comic books to lend some >>> real-world veracity to the spandex-clad antics. Sometimes the cameo works >>> and everyone has clean, kitschy fun. Other times the cameo fucks up the plot >>> beyond all comprehension. >>> >>> These are some of those "other times." >>> >>> >>> http://www.cracked.com/article_16031_the-5-most-insane-celebrity-comic-book-cameos.html >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >>> Post your SciFiNoir Profile at >>> >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! >>> Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
