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(I don't think David Finch is an appropriate Superman artist)I guess I’m pretty much done with this one, but Paul Cornell’s run sure has been a good time. I was disappointed that #900 incorporated a bunch of Doomsday bullshit that I didn’t care about, but I get that they wanted to try and hook readers with a new story. Didn’t work for me. If Cornell and Luthor are out, so am I. The wrap-up of the Luthor arc was very satisfying, though. Luthor defeating himself was fantastic. If you didn’t read this one you should really pick up the trade when it comes out.
I guess I should probably address the whole Superman renouncing his citizenship thing. Here’s what I said on Facebook:
My initial reaction was the same as Hama's (he blew a fuse over it and the friend I was writing to unfirended Hama over it; which I think is pretty stupid). Then I thought about it and realized that regardless of the direction of the story the concept makes a whole lot of sense. Superman is not disowning America, he's keeping America at a safe distance from repercussions from his actions around the world. There's no dissing America here. I can't believe I just bothered to write that. I don't even like Superman - I just wanted the end of Cornell's fantastic Luthor story.
And that’s pretty much it. While I do believe that the large majority of comic creators (and Hollywood types like David S. Goyer who wrote this short story) are liberal pantywaists who want to turn America into something that is not America; that has nothing to do with this short story.
For the record, I don’t like conservative moralists any more than I like liberals. They both want to take away my freedom and I think that’s pretty shitty.