Extended Reading
  • Francisca 2022-04-02 08:01:01

    Background introduced on the wiki

    The story was largely conceived as a response towards the popularity of the Wildstorm Comics series The Authority, a deliberately provocative work that explored the moral responsibilities of human beings powerful enough to overturn tyrannical regimes single handed, and which became incredibly...

  • Wilbert 2022-04-02 08:01:01

    Superman - a social reformer with anti-American ideas

    Obviously, the republican in the blue invisibility cloak with the S character Copton shield is not a representative of the American spirit. Because of the following manifestations: emotional cowardice and lack of initiative; good public influence but lack of leadership; advocating respect for...

Superman vs. The Elite quotes

  • Manchester Black: You probably won't believe this, but I used to love superheroes. But masks are for hiding. Capes are for play. You were the first. The best. But you're a cliché and you don't fit in anymore. Mad scientists, idiots in underwear, bank robbers, knock yourself out with that lot. But the real work, fixing the world, is ours. Starting tomorrow with Bialya.

    Superman: I'm shutting you down.

    Manchester Black: Right.

  • Manchester Black: [to Superman] No witty retort. Oh, wait. You're in the middle of a seizure. Sorry, mate. I can't read your mind but I sure as hell can muck about with your brain. All those capillaries, like little tubes of concrete. But still vulnerable. It's funny, isn't it? A life of truth, justice and the American, military, capitalist way. In the end, you die on the moon, wondering if your bowels will let go. And tomorrow, the world will go on like nothing happened. Dragged kicking and screaming to a better day.