Superman Renounces US Citizenship

[Ned Hamford]

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/04/28/superman-renounces-citizenship-00th-issue/

Clark Kent still to pay taxes  

Spiderman still to be a tool of the state.

Oh, and in another reality, Superman starts off as a communist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_Red_Son

[dogmush]

We should deport him.

[Boomhauer]

Honestly, Superman was always a bit of a *expletive deleted*che...

[AZRedhawk44]

My gut reaction was "screw Superman" but I read the article a bit more.

Superman got his *expletive deleted*ss reamed by the US SecState, for participating in a peaceful rally in Iran against the regime.  That is "the American way."  Seems like Superman is pulling on America, what the TEA Party is pulling to the GOP:  "I didn't leave you... you left me."

I still don't like it.  But I don't think it's all UN-Eurowhiny like we tend to immediately assume.

[lee n. field]

"Truth, Justice and the U.N. Way!"

Another childhood icon jumps the shark.  

[230RN]

I guess the fetish for globalization is to blame.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread.

Or at least have doubts about it.

Give me a child until he is done reading comic books, and he is forever after mine.

That's what bothers me, is the kids reading this stuff.

Why was he demonstrating overseas in the first place?

What's next, he marries Jane Fonda?

[longeyes]

An 11-year-old's fantasy figure is NOT what America is all about.

[MicroBalrog]

Why was he demonstrating overseas in the first place?

Why wouldn't he be? He's a superhero, remember, the ordinary rules of behavior don't really apply.

[AZRedhawk44]

Micro, Superheroes often times become politically involved in comic book environments.  The X-Men are probably the most prominent in this behavior due to "mutant legislation" but other superheroes do it at times, too.

There's nothing wrong with Superman flying to Tehran to take part in a protest against a corrupt government.  I haven't read the issue, but it wouldn't surprise me if he stopped some little kid from getting run over by a tank, or defused a group of Iranian soldiers from opening fire into the crowd, or something like that while he was there.  Or perhaps his presence deterred any form of crowd control due to fear of retribution from this invincible force with a well known moral compass.

What's wrong here, is the US Secretary of State getting pissy at Superman for going to Tehran.

The SecState, and the US Federal Apparatus, lost "the American way." 

[MicroBalrog]

This seems to be the case to me, but I am sort of confused as to what point 230RN was trying to make.

[HankB]

When I was reading comic books, I don't remember all this poltical cr@p . . . unless it was Sgt. Rock saying something detrimental about the Nazis he was gunning down with his Thompson.

Then I remember reading some stuff recently about SpiderMan playing shooting hoops with Obama, and thought "Comic books sure have changed."

And not for the better.

(Of course, The Probability Broach was made into a comic book, and there's Escape from Terra and Roswell, Texas,  all available online at Big Head Press. Didn't have these when I was a kid.)

[230RN]

My point was that this was indoctrination.

Better put:  "Why did the cartoonists send Superman overseas?"

And:  "Why did the cartoonists have him revoke his citizenship?"

However, I'll admit that wasn't my most cogent post. 

Terry, 230RN

[MicroBalrog]

Well. Superman sees injustice done. He flies in to oppose it. It seems to make sense as a plot, especially as Americans, left or right, generally seem to agree the Iranian regime is evil.