The Ghost of Superman-Future Superman v1 416

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Siskoid at 07:05

Reign of the Supermen #63: The Ghost of Superman-Future

Source: Superman vol.1 #416 (1985)Type: Future

No relation to A Christmas Carol aside from the title's reference, but now's as good a time as

any to mention this future version of Superman who, a hundred years on, used his best

friend Luthor's holographic projector to send himself a message back in time. That message:

To delay the capture of Luthor for a bit. During that bit, Luthor saves the life of a young manwho would later become the psychiatrist who would cure him of his evil.

Of course, the issue's first story tells us the tale without Future Superman's ghostly

intervention and Lex still manages to save the boy from drowning while Superman's

distracted so... He creates paradoxes just for fun?

Terrifying.

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2 comments:

Stephen December 26, 2012 at 8:00 PMYup. That was just poor writing and editing. They shouldn't have shown the kid getting saved

in the first part to begin with.

Also how did Future Superman ever know that the kid that had drowned on that day would

cure Luthor?

It's all just really silly.

Getting rid of all these writers after Crisis was the best thing DC has ever done for Superman.

I've got nothing against Elliot S! Maggin, Cary Bates and the others, it's just that many of theirstories were just terrible, some were amazing, but many were unforgivably terrible and 60's-

ish.

I love Curt Swan, but sometimes the man really needs to think of what he's drawing. Till the

early 70's it was okay to draw future people wearing pointy clothes with the shirt and the pants

being of the same colour with weird crowns, but this was 1986 and he made those future

reporters look like court jesters from the 1200's.

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Siskoid December 26, 2012 at 8:18 PM

The Superman books were really retro prior to Crisis.

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