Sure, we’ve all seen that picture of Obama standing in front of the Superman statue in Metropolis, Illinois, but have you ever REALLY thought about why Obama is like Superman?
Chris Muir, brilliant author of the Day by Day comic, did on Sunday.
Go. Read. Enjoy.
Thank ya, Harvey!
…Clark Kent…
WTF was that all about?? And I don’t mean Win The Future.
I started reading the cartoons and couldn’t stop.
It was like eating salted peanuts; just one more… just one more…
That explains why Superman in the comics suddenly turned into an anti-American weenie.
One huge difference is that Superman had the integrity to renounce his citizenship before dissing the US
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I don’t remember the real Superman being gay.
SoB: vaguely related – speaking of Superman’s sex life – “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”, a brilliant thought-experiment by science fiction author Larry Niven:
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html