Power is Knowledge: the unifying theories of Batman
Superman was born with absolute power, Batman had to build his power over the largest human weapon: his intelligence.
Superunnatural: Scioli’s Satanic Man of Steel
Adam McGovern offers us an analysis of a recent reinterpretation of the Superman icon by the cartoonist Tom Scioli
The “S” Means What You Say It Does — Superman’s Shadings and His Spiritual Kin
Adam McGovern gives us an essay on the Superman’s spiritual archetype and its many variants in seventy-five years of life.
“His greatest enemy ? intolerance!” The Superman radio show in 1946 – Second part
(First published on Scan Journal, Vol 5 Number 2 September 2008). http://scan.net.au/scan/about/about.html by Michael Goodrum One way of attempting to guarantee consensus is for the hero to fight someone acknowledged as an enemy by the vast majority of the population. The stories in question do this by repeatedly creating links between the villains and the Nazis,…
“His greatest enemy ? intolerance!” The Superman radio show in 1946 – First part
(First published on Scan Journal, Vol 5 Number 2 September 2008). http://scan.net.au/scan/about/about.html by Michael Goodrum Truth, justice and the American way: words we have come to understand as Superman’s motivation. What do these words actually mean, though? Certainly, following 1954 and the Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Juvenile Delinquency that effectively emasculated comic book superheroes, Truth, justice…