Look up in the sky

LOOK UP IN THE SKY...
was the opening line to, quite possibly, my favourite tv show of my kid-dom....most of my mates got home from school, and then hit the streets for some bike riding or a game of footy, and I was out there too, I was just there a half hour later, cause I just had to get my daily fix of Kryptonion, the show, of course was starring a member of the Gone with the Wind ensemble, George Reeves, and there I sat with my mountain of black and white dc comics, I always liked Supe's, the boxes of comics proved that, but seeing him on the old cathode brain de-generator(or TV if you like) tipped him over the edge to be top of my bestest Super hero list.

  Superman has been delivered in every possible kind of entertainment media, books, films, stage, animation, comics...now, I dont know, but I'm betting there probably has been some Super porn as well....I reckon you could ask someone who has never read a comic about Kal-El and they could tell you something about the mythos of the character, same could be said for Star Trek, BUT, this blog aint about Trek, thats coming soonish....

 Did I mention I had a stack of comics, geez, who among us didn't, I had them all, Superman, Action comics, Worlds Finest, all 20c and in good old black and white...wasn't a big fan of the colorising and the sudden jump in price to between $2 and $3 bucks just quietly, it actually stopped me buying them for quite a few years, I only bought the big issues..you the death series, the rise of the supermen and a couple of the Crisis issues...then, one day I was in Melbourne at Minotaur Books (PLUG , PLUG) and found amazing  black and white compilations...so you know I was happy as all sorts, still get them by mail order today...

Since his kick off in the 30's, Supes had a non stop cacohony of evil, bent on planet ruling, lunatics,trying to do him some damage and generally raising all kinds of hell,  Luthor, Braniac, Zod, Myxpltk, Metallo, Bizarro, Toyman and the big one, the one that stunned me the one that killed the big blue cheese, DOOMSDAY...I got to tell you, I wasn't expecting them to kill off Superman, in the long run ,he was good as gold, but bloody hell....

the men who have played Superman have done an outstanding job, in what I think is a hard acting job,  in my opinion anyway, I was convinced that George Reeves was the best Superman i'd seen and while his still near the top, I think the tip of the hat has to go to Christopher Reeves as the best version, I recently got my hands on the Superman serial from the 40's starring Kirk Alyn, he wasn't too foul either,...

 then in the 70's came the late, great Christopher Reeves, his movie advertisement was "Youll believe a man can fly"  and I sure did, brilliant flicks, even the crap one's weren't that bad...there was a Superboy tv series produced as well, I've seen the you tube clips so I cant give a real definite opinion of the production...BUT...the show had Bizarro in it, the only Super series to have the twisted version of Supe's, trouble is, the clip I saw Bizarro was a nice bloke, got that a smidge wrong methinks...

Then came Lois & Clark, 4 years of what I think was a making of the Earth 2 Superman and Lois Lane-Kent, the comic E-2 Kents seemed very similar to the tv series, not a bad show, had Zod, H.G Wells and a few crims with some Earth 2 leanings.....then came Brandon Routh, now I dunno what went wrong with the flick, was it the storyline, Supes leaving Earth to find his origins, I actually thought that there was a graphic novel with this premise prior to the flick, but i cant find it, anyway, was it the general feel of the film ?, I do know that Kevin Spacey picked up where Gene Hackman left off as Luthor, well done by him...

as for the rest of the film, I dunno, but it was missing ..IT, I still watch it, but it aint my fave by a long shot......

 THEN came Smallville, now I dont know about anyone else...but this adaptation gave me the shits initially, well, for 6 years, but anyway, its a great show, dont get me wrong, but talk about f**k with the origin story,for starters,  Clark couldnt fly till the last ten minutes of the last show...Kryptonite affected EVERYONE, Lex and Clark were mates, Jor -El sounded and acted like Zod from the Superman 2, but we never saw him,  sure they had the Justice Society from Earth 2, well most of them, and the Legion of Super heroes and a good percentage of the Justice League and I did enjoy James Marsters version of Braniac, but I did sit there for years screaming at the TV.."THATS WRONG, CLARK/ SUPERMAN DIDNT DO THAT"...yep, they frigged with me, but, I still got all the box sets...HAHAHA.....

As I type this the new adaptation of the big blue cheese is in production..THE MAN OF STEEL..starring Henry Cavill as our fave kryptonian and Rusty Crowe as his dad Jor-El..to be blunt, I can hardly wait..I do love meself some new Superman flick.....and just quietly, the DC animated flicks are absolutely brilliant ...the best of the lot, in my opinion would be ALL-STAR SUPERMAN

I advise that you should go get that one and a couple of others.....

Anyway..that's the first blog for the series done, hope I didn't bore you, let me know what you think...but be gentle...HAHAHAHAHAHA.....