Scott Snyder loves Superman IV and Talks About His New Superman Book

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In this interview, Scott Snyder talked about some of his favorite Superman stories and shared some of his inspirations for his upcoming Superman book. On Twitter today, Snyder shared the following passage from Elliot S. Maggin's Miracle Monday, calling it one of his favorites:

The boy grew up in a universe of macrocosm and microcosm. To visit the other side of the world was, to him, what swinging on a vine across a creek was for other boys. He could see the unending dramas of underground ant colony wars and stratospheric weather front competitions as easily as he saw the mail truck barreling past the farm into town twice a day. He could alter his visual perceptions to detect waves on the entire electromagnetic spectrum, seeing alpha particles or cosmic rays as easily as he saw the visible light - but in colors that ordinary humans were incapable of imagining.

He could feel the level of the day's sunspot activity when he woke up in the morning in much the same way that those around him could tell if it was raining before they opened the shades. He could hold a conversation in one room while he listened to another one a mile away and to a radio broadcast as it flew through the air around him in microwaves.

The world was his playground and campus, superhuman senses his teachers, the anonymity of the Kent home his womb and protection. He was alone in all this sense and knowledge, monumentally alone; but less alone, he realized, than were those other Earthmen, glued to their work and trapped inside bodies that could do no more than touch the outsides of other bodies. The boy was alone, but he was never bored.

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In this interview, Scott Snyder talked about some of his favorite Superman stories and shared some of his inspirations for his upcoming Superman book. On Twitter today, Snyder shared the following passage from Elliot S. Maggin's Miracle Monday, calling it one of his favorites:

The boy grew up in a universe of macrocosm and microcosm. To visit the other side of the world was, to him, what swinging on a vine across a creek was for other boys. He could see the unending dramas of underground ant colony wars and stratospheric weather front competitions as easily as he saw the mail truck barreling past the farm into town twice a day. He could alter his visual perceptions to detect waves on the entire electromagnetic spectrum, seeing alpha particles or cosmic rays as easily as he saw the visible light - but in colors that ordinary humans were incapable of imagining.

He could feel the level of the day's sunspot activity when he woke up in the morning in much the same way that those around him could tell if it was raining before they opened the shades. He could hold a conversation in one room while he listened to another one a mile away and to a radio broadcast as it flew through the air around him in microwaves.

The world was his playground and campus, superhuman senses his teachers, the anonymity of the Kent home his womb and protection. He was alone in all this sense and knowledge, monumentally alone; but less alone, he realized, than were those other Earthmen, glued to their work and trapped inside bodies that could do no more than touch the outsides of other bodies. The boy was alone, but he was never bored.

Thats a great quote!

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Everytime I see Superman called "Clark" all I can see is Miller's Batman sneering it at him.

While I see Lois and the Kents talking to some one they love...

Him loving DKR is much more worrisome to me. Give Superman IV a decent budget and drop Jon Cryer from it and it would prob have been a good movie.

Not without a rewrite and massive re-edit.

I'm sure it probably is looking at it from an unbiased perspective, but I feel the way I feel and I'm hardly the first or only Superman fan to dislike DKR.

Disliking it is fine. Saying any one who doesn't doesn't get Superman is out there.

Completely new title, so there will be 3 Superman titles. They had a book with the same title in the 90's:



Although I guess the new book might just be called "Man of Steel".

I'm surprised you acknowledge the existence of a post Crisis book...

I love Superman 4, it’s one of my favorite movies and gave me the most joy as a kid, hell I just finished watching it again today

So you're the one...

Well even big fans of DKR hate TDKSB and ASBAR. I like (again LIKE) DKR as a Batman story not a Superman story, there are Superman stories I like that degrade Batman as a character too. Like Red Son and Kingdom Come, it's an Elseworld story.

How does Kingdom Come degrade Batman?

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In other words, I'm not going to cave in and sell out what I like and what I believe in just so some people on a message board won't criticize me. I like what I like and dislike what I dislike. I'm not going to lie just because people disagree with me.

Respecting others different opinions and not questioning their love of the character whenever they disagree with you =/= selling out or lying.

That Superman never thought as himself as Clark Kent. He just didn't.

Which seems dysfunctional and absurd...

marriage and life with no soul, suffering or pathos

There was plenty of suffering and pathos before the marriage (Hell, he died), and how did it have no soul?

When I see someone call Superman Clark, that just tells me that they don't know enough about the character to know that Clark Kent and Superman are two completely different characters, and that Superman (Clark's creator) regards them as such.

I agree with Maggin about Superman and Clark Kent. That's the way I see it, the way I like it and the way I find it most interesting and unique.

Preferring it that way is great, but it doesn't mean that writers who don't prefer it that way don't get the character.

You know what? I love III. And not ironically.

I still maintain that the junkyard fight totally saves III.

[QUOTE=Kurosawa;16341581]There isn't just one way, but there is a way and an interpretation of the character that makes him one I can care about (Pre-Crisis and Post-Flashpoint)

Those are 2 interpretations...

and there is an interpretation that does not move me personally because I feel there is no depth, conflict, complexity or soul (Post-Crisis).

Really? No soul again?

Have I made it clear to you that I dislike and disrespect you on a personal level, consider nothing you say or think to be of value, and will not reply to anything that you say except in this manner? I have no intention to debate with you.

Classy.

I found him to be very shallow and boring because there he had no real pain, loss or issues.

He had at least as much as Pre-Crisis, they were just somewhat different.

It's better than derailing into another Morrison vs Snyder fight.

Who has the better feats?

He wrote him in Swamp Thing #1. It was a pretty good portrayal.

Quite short, though.