#Superman: Up in the Sky
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DICK IS OFFICIALLY CLARK'S FAVORITE ROBIN, HANG ON, HANG ON, I NEED A MINUTE--
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Superman: Up in the Sky #6 by Andy Kubert
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Tom King's "Superman: Up In The Sky" (Reading Recommendation)
Summary: A little girl is abducted by aliens and finding her is nigh impossible, even for the Green Lanterns it’s a task.
The dilemma is: "How much is one person's life worth vs the wellbeing of the rest of the world if Superman is absent looking for an orphan child taken across the Universe, that may or may not still be alive?"
A very compelling story, an intergalactic quest that display's Superman's sheer determination to save what most would consider an inconsequential factor in the grand scheme of the universe-
One child's life.
This story displays clearly, why Superman will always be relevant.
I want to brag about this book, but i’m going to spoil the best parts. So read it for yourself.
#superman#the man of steel#superman: up in the sky#superhero#dccomics#clark kent#humanity#science fiction#action
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In memory of Jones - The Cosmic Cat of Comics
Media has a profound effect on our lives. In some cases, it forms how we view the world, we may tie significant memories to media we consumed at the time, and in some cases, it can become motivation for our actions. I have a lot of familial ties to the film industry, but its comics that affect my life the most. It has become fuel for my doctoral research, it’s let me form close friendships with…
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#Action Comics#Alien#Batman#Comic#Comic Book#Comic Books#Comics#DC#DC Comics#Gotham City Year One#Jones#Mister Miracle#Neil Gaiman#Patrick Gleason#Peter J. Tomasi#Phillip Hester#Phillip Kennedy Johnson#Strange Adventures#Superman#Superman: Up in the Sky#The Sandman#The Vision#Tom King
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Dp x Dc prompt 2
Danny gets punted into the Dc universe somehow and loses his memories along the way. Team Phantom and maybe some of his rouge gallery are currently scrambling to find him.
Meanwhile Ma and Pa Kent are very happy to have another son that fell from the sky.
#Ma and Pa Kent: adopting another child that fell from the sky: It's not much but it's honest work#this could also be ghost king danny#mainly because i like ghost king danny. funky little child king.#superman just pulls up and sees danny floating helping with farm work and is just:#🧍♂️''Ma and Pa is that another Kryptonian''#and they just give an explanation that's really just a metaphorical shrug#''we don't really know he fell through the barn roof earlier this week in a super getup and now he's your brother'' type beat#idk i just really love it when Ma and Pa adopt danny it just scratches an itch on my brain#it's also really funny when Superman meets Danny and immediately goes ''He's Just Like Me FR'' <- thinks he's Kryptonian#dp x dc#dc x dp#dp x dc prompt#dc x dp prompt#dp x dc crossover#dc x dp crossover#danny phantom#danny fenton#team phantom#blobus speaks
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He just wants Batman to be happy :,)
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Identity reveal shazamily fic idea:
They're fighting some big bad in a huge cave or throne room or in an air pocket miles underwater (the Rock?) and the league and shazamily are all there, every two stuck in separate areas (magic barriers? Cave ins? Enemies simply not letting them close?).
The roof is starting to collapse. Billy catches it, but with his powers divided, he's struggling. With a time limit before he falls, the battle intensifies.
Mary and her jl partner fells her opponent first, and looks across the room just in time to see him stagger under the crushing weight. She cannot reach him (in time?). They meet each others eyes. The wisdom of Solomon, or perhaps Mary batson, has an idea.
In a crash of thunder, she detransforms, in front of their enemies, and the entire justice league.
With power returned, captain marvel stands a bit straighter. The roof grows heavier. Cracks scatter across the high ceiling.
As Mary is carried to safety, the family understands what they must do.
In conjunction with the league member they were trapped with, they work to defeat their opponents, and one by one transform, each time revealing people too small, too young. The crash of thunder marks each victory. Rubble starts to fall and shake the earth as the league members pull their partners to safety, gathering together by the entrance, bandaging their wounds. All eyes are on Marvel, trapped under a great pillar of stone. (They have been working with him for years now, but each of his family has been revealed to be children. Is he, too?) Each time he raises the ceiling a little higher, and each time it grows heavier as the battles and the ticking clock destabilise the thousands of tons above.
At last, the final group win, and exhausted league members piggy back the last child hero over the rubble.
All are evacuated, but Marvel cannot move. Rapid power transfer and hours of stress have taken their toll, and he needs to transform back as well.
Finally, finally, green lantern and superman reach him, and with their help he is freed, collapsing to the side in relief. No one says a word.
With one final lightning strike, the last member of the team is revealed.
He's twelve years old.
And the league needs to take them all to safety.
#The power sharing mechanics of the shazamily is so interesting to me. And so under utilised.#Detransforming. Revealing yourself and by relation your family as a direct way to save your brother#And I do love incredibly strong characters having to hold the sky to save their friends#You're looking them in the eye and they're saving your life by performing this impossible feat and neither of you are moving#Percabeth do it like no other but we can try#Once read a fic where some league members get trapped under a city in a subway or something during an earthquake and marvel holds the#entire roof + ground + skyscrapers above them up for eight hours until the league can find them without moving a muscle.#And every time I think of cap marvel I think of that. Like. What do you even do after that. Where can you go#dc comics#superman#captain marvel#dc captain marvel#billy batson#shazam#shazamily#mary bromfield#pedro pascal#mary marvel#mary batson#freddy freeman#I'm so sorry I don't know the surnames of Darla and Eugene#Fic idea#story prompt#fic prompt#justice league
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Superman: Up in the Sky, Tom King and Andy Kubert, 2019-2020
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#never giving up#✊✊#bruce wayne#batman#nightwing#aquaman#blue beetle#superman#panic in the sky#dc comics
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H E L P I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS REALLY SWEET OR IF CLARK IS JUST ABSOLUTELY ROASTING BRUCE HERE (OR BOTH????) LIKE, "I'D LET HIM WIN BECAUSE I DON'T CARE ABOUT WINNING FIGHTS", IE, BRUCE DOES BECAUSE HE'S A GIANT POWER SCALING BABY BUT ALSO HE DESERVES A TREAT ONCE IN AWHILE
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#new chapter alert!#a sky of honey#give it up for chapter 15 (mr krabs voice)#bruce wayne#batman#dc#myfic#theresurrectionist#batfamily#clark kent#superbat#superman#a coral room#a room full of coral#a/b/o mention#a/b/o tw#mpreg mention#mpreg tw#ngl I didn't think we'd update today but here we are
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pocket sized lois and superman
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I love Up in the Sky so much! A great Superman story!
#dc comics#dc heroes#superman#clark kent#Kal-El#lois and clark#superman and lois#andy kubert#tom king#sandra hope#clayton cowles#brad anderson#man of steel#man of tomorrow#up in the sky
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It's Superman and Supergirl! Remember the Superdictionary? The one where Lex Luthor stole forty cakes? He stole forty cakes!
You know, it seems like, inside every writer, there are two wolves - one who wants to be as self-indulgent as they want, write stuff only to themselves, and not care about criticism at all. The other, the one who wants to be as popular as possible, try and craft a story based solely on what people want and strip it of any flaws, no matter how personally revelant these flaws are to them.
And to a certain point, both sides are kind of childish - wanting to be self-indulgent is like wanting to play with your toys alone and get mad at any suggestions, even though sometimes suggestions are given specifically because someone likes the writing, and wants to see it evolve. And of course, being too dependant on praise is also childish, cause it's like wanting mommy to see you do a tumble - having confidence means doing stuff for yourself as well, after all.
The one big criticism every writer has to answer to, the first thing everyone hears again and again when starting to write - is to avoid making your main character a Mary Sue. Meaning, flawless, overpowered, too important to the plot and being too unique compared to the rest of the cast.
Yeah, I mean, that does sound like an unpleasant read. The big problem is that term was created mostly to discuss stories that are based on the idea of external struggle. So if the conflict in the story comes from characters having a hard time surviving, a character that's universally powerful and beloved is boring.
That is the big complaint everyone has about Superman - why is in interesting to read a story where the tension comes from finding out who wins a fight, if one of the challengers can punch the sun shut?
And I'm not sure if I'd classify Superman as a Mary Sue. He's the strongest guy in the story, sure, but the conflict isn't whether he'll win a given fight. The conflict comes from the way the plot's constructed, whether Superman knows who the enemy is, if he can get there in time to stop him, how other people feel about it...
And there's the inner conflict that comes from Superman having a secret identity. That goes against the "Mary Sue" accusation because having the secret identity is a flaw. It was the big flaw that set the character apart from others when he was first published. And although it's never really explained why Superman even bothers "pretending" to be Clark Kent, it makes sense, even if only on a subconscious level, back when the character was created.
I know that, if I started developing superpowers as a teen, I wouldn't abandon my current identity and life, and my adolescence wasn't even as wholesome as Clark's, with his upstanding parents and friends. So, the reason Superman has a secret identity is that, even if he's not human, he's a person, with all the lived-in background, dreams and psychology that that ensues.
Then, during the Silver Age, writers pretty much gave up on portraying Superman as an enviable, much less powerful figure. For most of it, Superman was subjected to all sorts of humiliations, from being turned into a monkey every other issue, becoming evil at the flip of a hat, or otherwise being portrayed as a mean-spirited prankster or neurotic egomaniac.
All that, of course, was to suprise audiences who were shocked to see their hero reduced to such a pathetic figure.
Of course, after then, Superman was not much different than any other superhero out there - if he was super strong, his enemies were just as strong. Also sometimes he wasn't even that strong. There was even The Death of Superman, an interesting story where he was killed by the personification of the nineties.
Of course, the idea that the main character is going to be victorious isn't exactly news to the audience - at least not if the story's supposed to be about dangerous conflict. Nobody watches The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron assuming there's a chance Jimmy will be slaughtered by the end of the episode.
Mary Sues are called conflict-killers because they're overpowered, but also because they're boring. A character can be all that much better/stronger/smarter than everyone else, but readers don't mind it so much if they're also interesting. Or if the story around them is interesting. It's usually the case with a character like Sherlock Holmes - not only is he a genius, he's also surprisingly strong for a skinny, balding englishman. He's rich, too, and can even be pretty handsome and charming when he wants. And to top it all off, he's a badass who flaunts his superior intellect by declaring he gets bored with the matters of the common man.
But the stories are good, because his hypercompetence is what allows us to see him figuring out the truth. And that's often pretty interesting. Except in that story where the guy's impotence drugs were turning him into a monkey.
There are other ways to make stories with all-competent characters interesting. Sometimes comics are more about the art (and in some cases, the circunstances that make it so the backgrounds are so interesting), so it's a lot of fun if Mary Sue's just plowing her way through the plot to let us see the pretty pictures. If the Mary Sue isn't the protagonist, jealousy and admiration are interesting plots. It's a thing that works well in comedy too.
But the interesting thing about Mary Sues, and Superman in particular, is that, if the character isn't bogged down by the dangers of the world and its associated fears, the story becomes becomes purely about morality - if Superman can do anything he wants, what should he do? The best Superman (and Superman analogue) stories are about questions like that. And some of the worst ones are the ones that fumble the answer.
Anyway, he's resting with Supergirl there. Funny. Why does he even need to rest? He can punch out the sun for God's sake!
#superman#superdictionary#supergirl#superhero#DC#DC comics#DC universe#Mary Sue#Writing#writer#writers#Sherlock Holmes#comic#comics#Faster than a speeding bullet#more powerful than a locomotive#able to leap tall buildings in a single bound#look! up in the sky#it's a bird#it's a plane#It's Superman!
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