6 comments to “This Week in Panels: Week 225”

1. Injustice today features the introduction of an intriguing concept: a woman who has literally never read a history book. ‘Cause I’m fairly certain that by being situationally willing to flip the hell out and kill someone on less than ideologically pure grounds, Clark finally proved he was a fairly typical human.
   Also, Detective Comics 27 produces precious wisdom that will never be heeded.

        by Drakyn January 14th, 2014 at 05:00 --reply
   

2. @Drakyn: That’s not what her point is. She’s calling him out on the same, “Why don’t you put the whole world in a bottle?” mentality from Red Son. He’s acting like we’re his pets and we have to do what he says because he knows better when the real Superman knows to let humanity figure things out for themselves, but catch them when they’re falling.

        by Gavok January 14th, 2014 at 11:38 --reply
   

3. @Gavok: Yeah, but disregarding less powerful people as being ants beneath you who you should manipulate for their own good is ALSO fairly common human behavior that doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not you’re from Krypton, Kansas, or Cameroon. The language used here puts humanity on a pedestal: before he was an almost completely unnatural example of virtue in nearly every way, and that was considered so human he ‘fooled’ them, because he was ‘like us.’ Now that he’s sliding into typically human vices and views of the powerful (albeit with a grossly magnified set of personal capabilities), he’s inhuman.

        by Drakyn January 15th, 2014 at 08:51 --reply
   

4. We Idealise the best of humanity and otherise the parts we don’t like.

   I.e acting against the interests of humanity = inhumane

        by Zeke January 15th, 2014 at 09:30 --reply
   

5. here’s a question how long until we get the chapter where scorpion beats up Trigon, like kinda wonder how they going to explain a guy who normally a puppet of gods winning a match against a ruler of one… did Scorpion got his hands on those Super-Pills? Also Gavok http://www.4thletter.net/sfmk/sethsub.jpg that lady in the bottom right seems to be the fifth character capcom been alluding to… though I kinda wish for Daniel Bryan from that middle picture or Sub Zero given it’s the First issue of the series.

        by SomerandomGuy January 15th, 2014 at 13:55 --reply
   

6. oh wait did I say bottom right?! I mean Bottom Left… though Who knows the gender on the person in the right.

        by SomerandomGuy January 15th, 2014 at 13:57 --reply