I know what you mean about superman and batman, I feel the same sort of superman unease.
I read in one of my class readers that Superman's creators were Jewish Imigrants. That could be a reason why he was an alien. To show the kindhearted outsider in a subversive sort of way. The book was all about magic and fantasy in American subculture vs. rationality in American High Culture. Which could be another way of seeing the Superman Batman difference. Superman is sort of magical and inexplainable and alien, whereas Batman, well we can see the science of all his gadgets. Superman is fiction/god whereas Batman is science/human.
Yet Batman still becomes the myth and the symbol, even with his understructures of scientific gadgets.
But then there are X-Men, who are not aliens, but they still are fantastic in their way.
I think you might like this site. I'm pretty sure they are real comics, and they show a different side to Superman http://www.superdickery.com/dick/2.html
I think people don't realise how strange comics used to be. Like things that don't really make sense. They had this really awesome "This american life" that I heard on failed superhero brands. The one hero I remember was "Mr. Parts" His super power was to fly into separate parts. Like arms and legs and head all separated. That was it. So when he confronted a villain, he just kind of fell to pieces and did nothing.
IThose are some interesting thoughts about LOTR and the X-men hero movies, what would their political stance be? Maybe tho the few are all that can be portrayed in a two hour movie. We can't identify with the many anyway, because we are only one. But I still think there is room for discussion there.
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I read in one of my class readers that Superman's creators were Jewish Imigrants. That could be a reason why he was an alien. To show the kindhearted outsider in a subversive sort of way. The book was all about magic and fantasy in American subculture vs. rationality in American High Culture. Which could be another way of seeing the Superman Batman difference. Superman is sort of magical and inexplainable and alien, whereas Batman, well we can see the science of all his gadgets. Superman is fiction/god whereas Batman is science/human.
Yet Batman still becomes the myth and the symbol, even with his understructures of scientific gadgets.
But then there are X-Men, who are not aliens, but they still are fantastic in their way.
I think you might like this site. I'm pretty sure they are real comics, and they show a different side to Superman
http://www.superdickery.com/dick/2.html
I think people don't realise how strange comics used to be. Like things that don't really make sense. They had this really awesome "This american life" that I heard on failed superhero brands. The one hero I remember was "Mr. Parts" His super power was to fly into separate parts. Like arms and legs and head all separated. That was it. So when he confronted a villain, he just kind of fell to pieces and did nothing.
IThose are some interesting thoughts about LOTR and the X-men hero movies, what would their political stance be? Maybe tho the few are all that can be portrayed in a two hour movie. We can't identify with the many anyway, because we are only one. But I still think there is room for discussion there.