News Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:36:29 CST Vu

This Superman Returns/Justice League: Justice on Trial bundle is a pretty good deal, not only do you get the Superman Returns movie, but the bonus JL DVD. Plus for $2.97, you can download the movie (see more prices at www.pocket-lint.co.uk).

The best part is: it also comes with a reprint of SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW! I could not find a photograph or scan of this pocket sized comic book, so if you have a copy, I would like to see a scan of it.

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SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW? (Wal-Mart) (28 Nov 2006) DC Comics   SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW? (1997) DC Comics

Superman Returns (Exclusive) (Widescreen) (also available in Full Screen)
Monday, November 13, 2006 7:35:53 PM

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$19.96
About the Movie
Exclusive includes "Superman Returns" and Bonus Item. "Superman Returns" - He's back. A hero for our millennium. And not a moment too soon, because during the five years (much longer in movie-fan years!) Superman sought his home planet, things changed on his adopted planet. Nations moved on without him. Lois Lane now has a son, a fiancee and a Pulitzer for "Why The World Doesn't Need Superman." And Lex Luthor has a plan that will destroy millions - no, billions - of lives. Filmmaker Bryan Singer ("X-Men") gives the world the "Superman" it needs, honoring the legend everyone loves while taking it in a powerful new direction. Brandon Routh proves a perfect choice to wear the hero's cape, leading a top cast that includes Kate Bosworth as Lois and Kevin Spacey as Lex. And the thrills from a sky-grapple with a tumbling jumbo jet to a continent-convulsing showdown - redefine Wow. "I'm always around," Superman tells Lois. You'll be glad he is.

Packaging Type is Side-by-Side; "Superman Returns" (Widescreen Version)

COMIC BOOK ARTIST #25 is an all-Alan Moore issue. In a rare interview with Moore, I found out a lot of things that I didn't know about Moore. For instance, he broke into comics writing and drawing his own strip. I also did not know that he truly love the comic book medium, that when he was a child he would read all the UK comics and genuinely love the Superman mythology. There is an interesting comment that he made, which if you write about a character who can fly, the reader reads this and imagines what if you could fly. What if *I* can fly. Suddenly, all the wonder and imagination is put into the reader's head. Anyway, here is an excerpt which George got mentioned.

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ALAN MOORE
Interview conducted by Jon B Cooke & George Khoury

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SUPERMAN #423 (Sep 1986) DC Comics   SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW? (1997) DC Comics

CBA: It took me some time to finally read your work. I would go into comic stores and people were always saying, "Alan Moore this, Alan Moore that," and the talk made it sound like you were trendy and I usually been disappointed buying into trendy stuff. But when I finally read "The Anatomy Lesson" [SWAMP THING #21] I thought, "No f*cking way! This guy's putting hallucinogenics into mainstream comics!" [laughs]

Alan: But it wouldn't have worked if I wasn't a traditionalist. None of this radical work would occur to anyone who wasn't a traditionalist. Unless I understood the tradition of Swamp Thing, how could I ever come up with exactly the right sort of twist to put in them?

When I got my crack at doing Superman stories, my last two stories for Julie, I didn't intend to be irreverent or take the character to some ultimate extreme. I used elements from earlier stories and certainly stretched them, but for instance, I loved Krypto. I knew Krypto was going to be thrown out with all the other garbage in the next issue when John Byrne took over, but at the same time I thought I would try to get the readers to appreciate the good stuff they were losing. I tried to write a Krypto scene that would make grown men weep, and it did. I got some good reports on that death of Krypto. It is okay that we can love this stuff, and I do.

CBA: Did you art direct that?

Alan: This is the only comic book cover [ACTION COMICS #583] I've ever got paid doing the layouts for. That was a delight. I got to work with Kurt Schaffenberger, inked by George Pérez.

Topic: CSN @ NEWSARAMA - CURT SWAN: A LIFE IN COMICS
posted April 10, 2003 12:15 PM
by Cliff Biggers

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Curt Swan: A Life in Comics is a most impressive volume; not only has Zeno selected an amazing array of Swan art from his lengthy career—work that has been cleaned up and reproduced with loving care to show off Swan’s skills in the best possible light—but he has supplemented that work with scores of unpublished pieces, pencil drawings, sketches, commissioned drawings, layouts, rarely-seen cartoons and non-comics work, and more. The pencil work in particular conveys the strength of Swan’s artistry in knowing how to convey maximum impact with no wasted lines, no cluttered layout, no pretentious visual gimmickry.

(Vu: As you know, George Pérez was a big fan of Curt Swan's humanistic approach to drawing Superman. It was a dream come true when he was asked to inked Swan in part two of "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" story in SUPERMAN #423.)

COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #97
Dec 2002

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Swan's Superman seldom expressed feelings of melancholy; rarely did he brood; yet there was often an air of palpable sadness about him, taken to the extreme in 1961's "The Death of Superman!" (inked by Stan Kaye), above and in Swan's last Superman story in '86, inked by George Pérez, below.