the Last Son of Krypton

[sergebroom]

The comics are doing some neat stuff with Superman, these days. There's Grant Morrison's 'alternate' version, very inspired by the early Sixties's version, down to Superman tossing a tree into orbit as he's playing fetch with his dog Krypto. There's Kurt Busiek's mainstream version that has had him being given visions of the near future where his existence caused Earth to become a blood bath and Jimmy Olsen is the last human on Earth. And, last but not least, Geoff Johns and Richard Donner's equally mainstream book, very full of imagery from the original movie, and with Lex Luthor back to his old evil-genius ways and setting a scary Bizarro loose onto Metropolis. All of this makes me wish Bryan Singer's movie had taken into account all the reinvention the character went thru since 1978.

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[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Jimmy Olsen is the last human on earth? The horror. The horror.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Actually, Jimmy Olsen has also been seriously re-invented. No more bow ties for him, among other things. Anyway, in that horrible vision of the future forced upon Superman, we have Earth still smothered by nuclear winter, and a very old and very lonely Jimmy writing his diary's last entry before passing away.

"If anyone ever finds this, though, they're all here. Every entry. Every day. Never used any for kindling. Never even thought hard about it. We stayed. We reported. Till the end. Like Perry would have."

"This is James Bartholomew Olsen, for the Daily Planet."

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's certainly horrible.