From a supply materials standpoint, a number of of Jack Kirby’s earliest Fourth World tales concerned Superman coming into contact with varied New Gods and Forever People, and his longing to be amongst beings who’re extra like him. Let Orion and Lightray come to earth to enlist Superman’s support of their cosmic struggle, just like how these ideas have been launched in Superman: The Animated Series. Superman turns into the viewers’s POV character, we not have to fret about him routinely being probably the most highly effective particular person within the room on a regular basis, and the DCEU can correctly introduce Darkseid with out having to stage yet one more invasion of Earth, since nearly all of the motion will happen on New Genesis or Apokolips. Remember how a lot everybody beloved the visuals when Thor left bland earthbound adventures for the Kirby-esque splendor of Thor: Ragnarok? Yeah, that.
The Warworld Saga
Folks, when you haven’t been studying Superman comics over the past 12 months or so, particularly Action Comics, holy moley are you lacking out on the most effective Superman tales of the century to date. Philip Kennedy Johnson and a assassin’s row of artists have powered Superman down, taken him offworld, and made him a revolutionary determine within the gladiatorial pits of Warworld, redefining certainly one of DC’s extra fascinating cosmic villains within the course of. It’s an epic within the truest sense of the phrase, and bears little resemblance to “traditional” Superman tales…aside from the truth that the spirit and values of the Man of Steel himself are completely represented, exhibiting that even when he’s a real underdog, he’s nonetheless Superman.
For my cash, that is the one fashionable story that any new stay motion Superman story ought to take its cues from. The good mix of Golden Age Superman toughness and grit and fashionable sci-fi components and philosophizing. Honestly, the PERFECT tone for the DCEU.
For The Man Who Has Everything
While Justice League 2 certain doesn’t seem like a precedence for Warner Bros…and should by no means be…my private dream could be to re-team Superman with DC’s two most secure cinematic bets: Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman and Batman (and sure, deliver again Ben Affleck for this!). The DCEU loves adapting the broad strokes of basic comedian tales, so a giant display model of the Watchmen inventive workforce of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “For The Man Who Has Everything” would tick all the suitable containers, with out the strain of it being a full blown Justice League sequel.
“For the Man Who Has Everything” is the superhero story that has every thing. A robust alien places Superman right into a hallucinatory coma, inflicting him to stay in a dream world the place he grew to maturity on a Krypton that by no means exploded, all whereas Batman and Wonder Woman combat for his or her lives. This may play nearly like Inception (or a Twilight Zone episode) with superheroes, and it might permit one other massive display look for Krypton, the visible and world-building spotlight of Man of Steel. In a means, this story, which forces Superman to confront and make peace along with his guilt at being the only real survivor of his world, would really feel like a becoming sendoff for Cavill’s Superman.
Justice League 2
Sorry, of us. Don’t maintain your breath. I’d guess that if it does ever occur, it’ll be extra alongside the strains of the type of workforce of misfits we bought within the late ’80s, and it’s precisely the type of factor that might be good for James Gunn’s subsequent DC film. I’d be shocked if we ever get one other Justice League film with Cavill’s Superman, however hey, there’s nothing I’d somewhat be mistaken about. That being mentioned, in the event that they need to make Man of Steel 2 about Superman assembling a brand new Justice League (or reassembling the previous one) you completely ought to try a narrative known as Panic within the Sky, which is without doubt one of the nice Superman comedian e-book epics of the ’90s.
