Geek Syndicate Issue 8 | Page 79

Geek Syndicate

Superman’s alter ego, Clark
Kent, had a good job that the
people could relate to. He
wasn’t a rich billionaire like
Bruce Wayne. Like the majority of the population, Clark
had to work for a living. As Superman, he showed the world
what they could do with their
full potential, embodying the

could be.
In this post 9/11 world, we
seem to constantly be on the
brink of terror. We are suffering through recession after
recession and could be about
to face Nuclear War. Is it not
fitting that The Man of Steel returns once more to give us that
hope that everything will be
all right: that we need to start
trying to help, rather than
blame each other? The Man of
Steel makes me believe again,
it makes me feel like we can do
everything that we need to do.
The Man of Steel, directed by
Zack Snyder and produced by
Christopher Nolan, seems to
have hit the nail on the head.

When Superman made his
first major appearance on
the big screen in
Richard Donner’s
seminal work, the
world was again
in a mess. Once
again the worldwide economy was
suffering and Britain was struggling
through The Winter
of Discontent. We
needed that spark
of hope that everything could be ok.
Yes, Superman The
Movie was just a
film but at the forefront it had a character who never
judged or blamed
his fellow man. He
believed in working hard and fighting for what he believed in, making
sure that he was
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the best person he

Image © DC Comics, 1942

I think
for me
the special
thing
about Superman is that he
is always there for
us, not just in fiction but in reality too.
When Superman was
first created in the 1930s,
the populace was going
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