DC’s Superman Takes on Police Brutality ... wow

[Ichingcarpenter]

One of the biggest changes to come out DC Entertainment’s big comics revamp this summer turned Superman’s world upside-down: Lois Lane revealed his identity to the world, and then he lost almost all of his powers.

We still don’t know how or why these things have happened yet, but the story taking place as the mystery unfolds has led to some of the most compelling Superman comics in a long time – particularly in Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder’s “Action Comics” #41-42.

In this new status quo, Superman hasn’t just lost his secret identity, but his costume and his heritage – locked out of the Fortress of Solitude, the one place on Earth with any connection to his homeworld, he has to contend with a world that knows who he is at a moment when he’s most vulnerable. Most of his powers are gone – he’s still superhuman, but at this point he’s mostly just a really strong guy.

http://truthvoice.com/2015/07/dcs-superman-takes-on-police-brutality/

[merrily]

1. Thanks, Ichingcarpenter.

[mucifer]

2. Superman was fighting the kkk in 1948 on the radio

Stetson Kennedy an investigative reporter help the Superman radio show write the episodes:

In the 1940s, Mr. Kennedy used the “Superman” radio show to expose and ridicule the Klan’s rituals. In the 1950s he wrote “I Rode With the Ku Klux Klan,” which was later renamed “The Klan Unmasked.”

Peggy Bulger, the director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, was a friend of Mr. Kennedy and did her doctoral thesis on his work as a folklorist. “Exposing their folklore — all their secret handshakes, passwords and how silly they were, dressing up in white sheets” — was one of the strongest blows to the Klan, she said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press.

Mr. Kennedy began his crusades against what he called “homegrown racial terrorists” during World War II after he was deemed unworthy for military service because of a back injury. “All my friends were in service, and they were being shot at in a big way. They were fighting racism whether they knew it or not,” Mr. Kennedy said. “At least I could see if I could do something about the racist terrorists in our backyard.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/us/29kennedy.html?_r=0

Here's a clip of the radio show:

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Glad to see the Superman brand is keeping it's tradition alive with fighting domestic terrorism whether it's the kkk or some twisted police.