Like yeah, capeshit sucks but this is genuinely better than any of the capeshit we've gotten since before the MCU ran superhero movies into the ground

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the Star Trek fiasco all over again

Superman started off woke, one of his first villains was the KKK

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And I'm pretty sure (without looking it up) that his very first villain was a slumlord.

EDIT: I was mistaken, though I'm pretty sure he threatens a slumlord in an early issue of Action Comics. Here's the actual summary:

The next twelve pages showed Superman attempting to save an innocent woman about to be executed while delivering the real murderess, bound and gagged, and leaving her on the lawn of the state Governor's mansion after breaking through the door into his house with a signed confession; coming to the aid of a woman being beaten up by her husband, who faints when his knife shatters on Superman's skin; rescuing Lois Lane (who also debuts in this issue) from a gangster who abducted her after she rebuffed him at a nightclub, which leads to the cover scene with the car; and going to Washington, D.C. to investigate a Senator who he suspects is corrupt, prompting a confession by leaping around high buildings with the terrified man, which leads into the next issue. All the while, Clark tries to keep Superman out of the papers.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

That's really cool.

I think you were getting mixed up with the Superman radio plays, which had an arc where he fought the KKK, and it exposed all of their esoteric bullshit (like naming their leaders "Grand Dragon") as the silly pathetic bullshit that it is. It made the KKK a laughing stock, and actually ended up causing one of their biggest lulls in recruitment.