The Greatest Superman Analogues

Who are “The Greatest Superman Analogues”? What makes a good one? Are there any that are as resonant as the original superhero? These are the questions we ask in this episode and the answers may surprise you. In modern times it seems as though we want to deconstruct everything and the Superman mythos is certainly one of the easiest targets. Why not make a character that looks like the big blue boy scout but he lasers people to death or runs a criminal cabal or serves an alien race instead of championing Truth Justice and whatever the hell? It’s fun to subvert a wholesomeness we’ve come to see as trite in our cynical age. This conversation shows just how hard it is to deconstruct/reconstruct one’s own ubermensch. Superman analogues have been featured in some of the best and some of the worst comics. So listen as we try to get down to which of these shadows of the original man of steel make the cut as their own characters and not just pale imitations. 

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