Jobs for Supermen
Nov. 16th, 2011 10:44 pmI'm going to quote (loosely) from a comicbook, because I do stuff like that, and it seems artistically relevant to these times we're living in. I'm paraphrasing for the sake of brevity of context and compensating for lack of pictures. Sorry if it sounds like an off-broadway one-man play... so, a Superman Annual from the 90s, "Legends of the Dead Earth", put a little sign on the stage that says 'Superman created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster'. Soft spotlight on a man in blue with goggles and jetpack, an heir to the superman legacy, as he reaches the climax of his story:
"They lied to us all along. They knew we wouldn't really fight them so long as we thought we deserved to be oppressed, that somehow we'd brought all our misery on ourselves, and couldn't do any better than that. They conquered us, enslaved us, and then they twisted every story they could get their hands on, to make themselves the heroes, the victims, the good guys, the deserving. I see now this isn't a job for Superman. It's too big for that. This is a Job for Everyone. and I'm going to fly up and write this in the sky in huge burning letters, where they can't tear it down or cover it up , where the whole city can see, and everyone will say, 'Look...Up in the Sky. It's ...the Truth!' "
The twists in the taglines are from the original.
"They lied to us all along. They knew we wouldn't really fight them so long as we thought we deserved to be oppressed, that somehow we'd brought all our misery on ourselves, and couldn't do any better than that. They conquered us, enslaved us, and then they twisted every story they could get their hands on, to make themselves the heroes, the victims, the good guys, the deserving. I see now this isn't a job for Superman. It's too big for that. This is a Job for Everyone. and I'm going to fly up and write this in the sky in huge burning letters, where they can't tear it down or cover it up , where the whole city can see, and everyone will say, 'Look...Up in the Sky. It's ...the Truth!' "
The twists in the taglines are from the original.