Superman does suffer more narrative difficuties than most. The single, very specific weakness means it's hard to provide a genuine threat; canny writers realise the best way to cause difficulties is threaten him with failure - eg, detonate a plane mid-air - rather than throwing things directly at him. It's said that a man is defined by his enemies, and Superman is probably the pinnacle of that.
I actually quite like Superman; for a time I bought all of his comics (until they introduced a quarterly title to cover the "fifth weeks", bringing it up to one comic every week, which I thought was just silly). But I definitely agree that his enemies are the most interesting thing about him.
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Date: 2006-05-03 10:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-03 11:23 am (UTC)I actually quite like Superman; for a time I bought all of his comics (until they introduced a quarterly title to cover the "fifth weeks", bringing it up to one comic every week, which I thought was just silly). But I definitely agree that his enemies are the most interesting thing about him.
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Date: 2006-05-03 01:32 pm (UTC)"Say it"
"You're insane"
"No No No Say it"
"Superman will stop y..."
"WRONG!"
Beautiful stuff :D
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Date: 2006-05-03 09:02 pm (UTC)Kevin Spacey that is.