Who looks the most like superman from the comics.
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He wasn't skinny, but the cut of the suit made him look gangly
I gotta get me a suit like that.
lol I don't think he looked skinny per say, but it looked like all torso, no hips & shoulders. Not a good look imho
Dean Cain was as close to perfection as Clark Kent as I've ever seen, he wasn't as convincing as Superman (Pilot aside).
Brandon Routh did a far better job than he is given credit for, I was also a big fan of Welling.
Cavill looks a lot like the New 52 Superman but he's a fair bit away from the classic look of the character,, for that there is only one winner. Christopher Reeve, I doubt anyone will ever come close to him. He was Superman.
I can't give serious consideration to Hoechlin, he's just a young skinny guy with black hair. He looks nothing like Superman or Clark Kent.
Brandon Routh did a far better job than he is given credit for, I was also a big fan of Welling.
Cavill looks a lot like the New 52 Superman but he's a fair bit away from the classic look of the character,, for that there is only one winner. Christopher Reeve, I doubt anyone will ever come close to him. He was Superman.
I can't give serious consideration to Hoechlin, he's just a young skinny guy with black hair. He looks nothing like Superman or Clark Kent.
I realize that John Haymes Newton played Superboy and not Superman. Nevertheless, he did look amazingly like the comic book Superman. I don't know how many people saw that Superboy series. I believe it only ran in syndication.
That's kinda what I also said. So… you're agreeing with me.
Enough apparently. It did run for four seasons after all.
So did a small TV series called Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He's probably one of the more built Superman actors we've had, second to Cavill, I imagine. Dean Cain and Tom Welling closeby, too. But he sure as hell wasn't skinny. He definitely had more mass than Reeve (though not without effort -- Reeve also trained his butt off, it's just that modern workout techniques and protein shakes go farther these days. If Reeve had access to that, he'd probably be closer to Routh in mass).
Seriously, just google Brandon Routh and Dean Cain shirtless pics, and they're very, very close together. And yes, it was a delight for me to look that up, but still. If Cain's not too skinny for the role, Routh definitely wasn't, either.
Well, really, he's only been Mr. Universe fairly lately, in Nu52 and under Ed McGuinness 10 years ago. From the 60s even to just before Flashpoint, he'd be ripped, sure, but he wouldn't be the physically-biggest hero around, and it made enemies like Mongul and Doomsday even more visually impressive. John Byrne, Dan Jurgens, George Perez, and Curt Swan would draw him as strong but lean, like a triathlete; by contrast, Alex Ross and Frank Quitely would draw him as physically large like an older linebacker, but not cut like a bodybuilder. Otherwise, he'd be drawn just as physically imposing as most superheroes, with a decent balance of mass and size rather than pure muscle bulk. He's usually closer to Matthew McConaughey than Arnold Schwarzenegger or The Rock, and not as lean as Brad Pitt (which is more for someone like Nightwing or the Flash).
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Superman: Man of Tomorrow by Alex Ross (2014)
You are right about Frank Quitely and that's why I hate his Superman.
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I feel like that's more of a reaction or anomaly than a consistency, though. Even a simple google search of "Alex Ross Superman" shows a multitude of work over the past twenty years where Supes is beefy nowhere near as defined as that. Usually (not in Man of Tomorrow, of course), if Ross has him that ripped, it's because he had painted over another artist's pencils, like Jim Lee.
If it's an Alex Ross Superman you're after, this one could be Patrick Warburton or even Dominic Purcell. 
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