The new Superman movie looks like a lot of fun, and I'll be there opening week, because the first movie I ever saw in a cinema was the very first Superman film, and I'm always up for more.
I do have one concern about the whole thing, and it's the bit they've shown in the trailers that faithfully recreates this nonsense:
It's my least favourite Superman cover ever, and that is not because of the usual sterling work of artist Rags Morales. If anything, Morales sells the moment too well for me, because I hate those fucking gimps yelling and throwing things at Superman so, so much.
Oh, you think Superman is an evil alien immigrant or something? He's only ever done the right thing for everybody he can, but you're angry enough to bawl in his face? Who told you he was the enemy, your racist uncle on Facebook? Lex fricking Luthor? You absolute dipshits.
The real world is obviously full of these kinds of morons, making far more noise than their meagre numbers actually suggest, full of dumb fear and misplaced fury. But I don't want to read a fucking comic about these boorish arseholes.
I tried one of the new X-Men books recently, and the first half dozen pages were full of some hateful bigot being unnecessarily cruel and grossly conceited, spouting off their uninterrupted nonsense for panel after panel, and I still haven't got past those few pages yet. And a lot of superhero comics are still using the 'talking heads on TV' trope that was old when Frank Miller did it in 1986, and is now just an excuse for some DC version of Alex fuckin' Jones (usually noted fuckwit Jack Ryder) to spray spittle all over the page
I don't watch or listen to these nimrods in real life, because fuck that noise, but it keeps coming up in the middle of the Fantastic Four or something, as if that's helpful in some way.
There is a high likelihood that the new Superman film will end with those same dipshits realising that Kal-El is truly on the side of angels after all, but if they were willing to believe Luthor's lies over Superman's obvious good, they were the main fucking problem in the first place
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