Superman makes CNN!

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/10/08/supermans.dad.ap/index.html

It's such a short skimpy story. I guess CNN or EW must be havng a slow slow slow newsday, at least for entertainment news.

 

[Christopher]

Be warned, there are major spoilers in the article and even its title.

Newsarama has a preview of 5 pages from the issue. Interestingly, they seem to have reinvented Brainiac as something very close to the DC Animated Universe version of the character.

 

[JAG]

It had a write up in the NY Daily news as well.

 

[nx1701g]

Umm... the Economy, the War in Iraq, Social Issues...

 

[doubleohfive]

That article is a joke. CNN used to be the go-to place for news when I was growing up, and now this is what we get? Even Trekker comes up with better stuff than this on slow days.

 

[Brian]

In a medium where continuities change more often than some Trekkies take a bath, there's not much I would consider a spoiler in comics. Certainly not the subject of that article. It's more a question of when it's going to happen, not the fact of it.

 

[Indysolo]

What they don't tell you is that in Action Comics #871, Superman turns back the world and doesn't allow this to happen.

Neil

 

[davejames]

Ha ha, I love how they have "Story Highlights" at the top of the page which are almost as long as the story itself.

 

[Trekker4747]

That article is a joke. CNN used to be the go-to place for news when I was growing up, and now this is what we get? Even Trekker comes up with better stuff than this on slow days.

Thanks, man!

 

[Gryffindorian]

OMG! I was just about to post a link to the article, but I guess someone had already beat me to it.

I wonder if we've seen the last of Pa Kent.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Don't worry. He'll be back. Everyone comes back from the dead these days in comics. *yawn*

 

[Ben Sisko3]

I find it appallingly stupid that no one, not one single writer, ever acknowledged or followed up on Pa Kent's early onset Alzheimer's after it was briefly mentioned/hinted at circa 2000-2002. That's just irresponsible storytelling. Then again, it is DC...

 

[A beaker full of death]

I didn't know he was alive.... again.

 

[Trekker4747]

I didn't know he was alive.... again.

I think they did it in the latest reboot. They even modeled the characters after older versions of Annette O'toole and John Schneider (Clark's parents in Smallville.)

 

[nx1701g]

^ Yep. I seem to recall them making Lana a brunette then too.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I didn't know he was alive.... again.

Same here.

 

[Mike Farley]

I didn't know he was alive.... again.

Pa Kent has been alive since the Man of Steel re-boot in 1986. He had a heart attack and near death experience way back during the death and return of
Superman and went missing for a little while as a result of Our Worlds at War, but aside from that he's been alive and well and dispensing fatherly advice for the last 20+ years.

 

[Christopher]

I didn't know he was alive.... again.

I think they did it in the latest reboot. They even modeled the characters after older versions of Annette O'toole and John Schneider (Clark's parents in Smallville.)

No, you're thinking of Mark Waid's Birthright from 2003. It was John Byrne's 1986 reboot that established Jonathan and Martha Kent as being alive and well in Superman's adult life, in contrast to the pre-Crisis continuity in which they'd both died while he was still Superboy living in Smallville. That's been the official DC Universe continuity ever since, although Birthright tweaked various elements of it (and some of those tweaks were later retconned out of existence in one of the reality-remaking "Crisis" miniseries).

As far as I know, the only versions of Superman in which Jonathan Kent has died while Martha has lived on have been the feature film series, Smallville, and the 2007 Superman: Doomsday DVD animated feature. In everything prior to 1978, both Kents died before Clark went to Metropolis. In everything else post-1986, to the best of my knowledge, both Kents continued to be part of Clark/Superman's life in the present day. (See the 1988 Ruby-Spears animated series, Lois & Clark, and the DC Animated Universe as well as the comics.)

 

[Brikar99]

I believe they also killed him in "All Star Superman", so he's been offed twice in the last year.

 

[Broccoli]

the story highlights are hilarious for an article that short