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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 4881517" data-attributes="member: 21169">Yeah, Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman are Superman to a large extent but also are different enough to make them both very interesting characters in their own right. It's kind of hard to do Captain Marvel in a modern setting, the boy->man transformation feels very weird these days. My memory of reading LoSH in the mid-80s is that Mon-El and Ultra Boy were both pretty dull. Warren Ellis has done three good variants on Superman. 1) Apollo, the gay Superman from the Authority. Having Superman and Batman as lovers is a brilliant riff on their best buddies relationship in the 50s. 2) The High, from StormWatch, who's pretty much the 1938 left wing change-the-world Superman but in the present day.3) John Horus from Black Summer, who seems to morph from the straight arrow Superman into the 1938 version when he can stand no more. The first event in the comic is his killing of the POTUS, which is a strong start, no matter what your politics are. The comic eventually shows this action to be badly mistaken.Mark Millar's communist Superman is another interesting take. It's weird how so many of the interesting Supermen are deeply political. Including Wonder Woman, really.Another good variant, not political at all, is Bizarro. For some reason I find him a much more compelling character than the Phantom Zone criminals. They are just evil, whereas Bizarro is the failed, idiot Superman. I think it makes for a great contrast given that Supes is so perfect.Well Astro City also has an Ages of Comics thing going on. Busiek's Supermen are Samaritan in the modern day, who seems to be just all about how hellaciously *busy* Superman must be, and the early 60s Atomicus, who highlights Supes weird, screwed up SA relationship with Lois Lane.</blockquote>

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