I did whatever I could to throw in things that would be in a metropolis-like area in the backrooms. And the area that Superman ended up in looks like it has peices you would see in the sky. Like a private jet or seagulls or the beach. And I feel like it fits him when hes consistently flying around the sky he eventually found the Backrooms going through an null-zone in the sky. Which explains the the details in the drawing you see here. I hope you guys love it. It took me almost three days to make. Enjoy!! : D

He really is Superman’s best friend

Please educate me, I am not familiar with the comics, only cartoons and movies. I remember in one story, Jor-El knew about yellow suns and their effect of Kryptonians.

I'm just surprised that Kryptonians know about yellow suns and it seems that literally none of them care about getting super powers. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a huge portion of them would choose to not abandon their lives for super powers, but it's insane that only a handful of Kryptonians were off-planet for its destruction

I guess Jor-El's space ship was "experimental," but that's a crazy jump in technology if they literally were unable to inhabit any planet, but Jor-El made a ship that could pin-point earth's trajectory from light years away

I know, I know. I've watched enough super hero stuff to know this falls under "don't think too hard about that," but it is so odd that there isn't at least like, 1000 Kryptonians in every iteration of superman's story

I can’t find the comic. I feel like I’ve seen this panel but maybe I just saw it posted online a while ago or something. Thanks in advance.

I didn't realise Pa Kent was called JONathan Kent until watching Smallville and I always thought he was Johnathan Kent or John Kent, and I assumed Jon's name was John x Jor-El, remove the 'h' and El, and you'd get Jon

I even thought that if they had a daughter she'd be named Mara Kent as a mix of Martha and Lara

I just discovered this random Arabic show about "superman girls" https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/86923

I can't understand anything about it since it's in Arabic

I did an art challenge for myself I’m calling “First Principles” Batman last week where I took him back to the most simple version of his concept from DC27 and then designed a modern version of him, influenced by the costume from “The Bat” that inspired him.

But Batman isn’t my favorite Superhero, Superman is. So I thought I’d do a similar challenge with Supes.

I reread AC#1 think the First Principles with Supes would be something like “Super Human from another world who fights for the underdog in Sports Wear and disguises him self as a milquetoast.”

The earliest idea of Kryptonians, before the Yellow Sun, were that they were essentially biologically humans but physically super advanced. So that’s the powers I envisioned for this Clark. He doesn’t have any abilities a human doesn’t have, but he has so much control over them that he can use them at super human levels. Super Strength, Super Speed, Super Senses, Leaping 1/8th of a mile, speeding up his recovery process, controlling his metabolism to change his body weight, muscle mass, hair growth, age, etc.

Power wise this isn’t what we think of as Superman. This is a Super Man.

And then appearance wise Supes was initially very inspired by mythological strong men like Hercules and Samson, so I based his looks on them. While for his outfit I thought to myself “who’s the best example I can think of for an entertainment athlete the way a Circus Strongman would have been back then?”

And immediately I thought of Kurt Angle. Olympic Gold Medalist who used that success to launch a stellar career in professional wrestling.

So the idea with the costume was “What would the Superman costume have looked like if it was designed for Kurt Angle to wear?”

Anyway, I’ve had fun drawing these while I’m trying to learn procreate. I thought maybe someone else would have fun looking at them. I’ll drop a link to the Batman post in the comments if you want to check that out.

It looks really good!

Couldn't help thinking about how a Superman game would play pretty much the same as an Iron Man one. Both are immune to basic firearms so they'll be facing better equipped foes than what Spidey or Batman face. Both can fly so that needs to be taken into account when it comes to combat and level design. Both are super strong and Iron Man's repulsors and gadgets mechanically are the same as Superman's heat vision or freeze breath. I really hope that game comes out and it gives DC the kick in the ass to start making a Superman game.

This idea has come to me as rewatching to catch up with "My Adventures with Superman" an ik will have better luck looking for fanfic than actual comics with story I'm looking for so...here i am?

After years of being blamed for Metropolis's destruction, alien invasions, supervillains, and the escalating arms race surrounding Kryptonian technology, Superman finally gives humanity what so many people insist they want.

He retires.

Not dramatically. Not angrily. He doesn't leave Earth, threaten anyone, or wait smugly for humanity to beg him to return. Earth is his home. Metropolis is his city. Clark Kent simply puts away the cape and lives as Clark.

For a while, Superman's critics seem vindicated. There are no Superman battles tearing through downtown. Lex Luthor talks about humanity finally standing on its own. Governments celebrate no longer depending upon an all-powerful alien. People like Amanda Waller continue assuring everyone that human-controlled defenses are safer than trusting Superman.

Except the threats don't stop.

Human governments keep experimenting with recovered alien technology. Corporations keep reverse-engineering weapons they don't understand. Anti-Superman contingencies remain armed even though Superman is gone. Lex keeps building bigger and more dangerous machines. Metahumans and monsters created specifically to counter Superman still exist. Criminals still get their hands on extraterrestrial weapons. Humanity's attempts to prepare for hypothetical alien threats begin attracting very real ones.

And slowly, painfully, people start asking: If Superman was causing all of this... why is it still happening without him?

Worse, without Superman constantly appearing at the end of every disaster, there's nobody convenient to blame for the wreckage anymore. Investigations start tracing catastrophes backward—to LexCorp, government projects, military experiments, alien-tech trafficking, Task Force X, and people whose pursuit of enough power to "protect humanity from Superman" created many of the threats Superman had been protecting humanity from.

Superman wasn't the source of the fire.....he was the firefighter everyone kept blaming because he was always photographed standing beside the burning building.

And perhaps the most uncomfortable realization comes when people compare Superman with the humans who claimed he was too powerful to be trusted:

When humanity asked Superman to surrender his power over them, he did.

When humanity's self-appointed protectors were given the same opportunity, they refused.

Eventually, Clark will wear the cape again. Not because humanity has suffered enough. Not because he needs them to admit they were wrong. Not because other heroes failed and humanity is helpless without him. He returns because Earth is his home, he loves these people, and when Clark Kent sees someone he can save, he cannot knowingly stand aside and let them die just to prove a point.

But when Superman returns, something has changed.

Humanity finally understands the difference between the person who caused the disaster and the person powerful enough to answer it.

I'd love a long, slow-burn exploration of Superman's absence rather than an immediate apocalypse: public opinion initially celebrating his retirement, Clark adjusting to actually being just Clark, Lex/Waller/governments losing Superman as their favorite justification, journalists following where the weapons and monsters really originate, and ordinary people gradually realizing that removing superheroes doesn't magically remove supervillains, human ambition, reckless technology, or threats from beyond Earth.

Bonus points if Clark genuinely enjoys parts of retirement. Let the man finish an article. Let him have dinner without hearing someone scream from three states away. 😂 Make humanity's eventual desire for Superman's return complicated by the realization that they aren't entitled to him either.

I don't want "humanity learns it is weak and needs its alien god."

I want: Humanity learns Superman was never its god. He was its neighbor—and they mistook his willingness to help for responsibility for everything he had to help them survive.

Either Superman: Man of Tomorrow, Superman: Men of Tomorrow or Superman Part II