Comics Just Finished "Red Son"...

[Spidey Snooch]

Loved it! But I really think Millar missed a golden story-telling opportunity. At the end of the book:

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When Lara and Jor-L launch baby Kal into space,

How cool would it have been

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to have him land in Kansas, growing in the Superman we know and love?

Did anybody else think the same thing?

 

[dru-zod2501]

If that happened, the whole story would've been undone.

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secondly, the point of the twist at the end was to show that Kal is Lois & Lex's descendant. If Kal landed in Kansas, and grew up like our Superman, he presumably would've Taken Lois from Lex when he grew up, then he would cease to exist.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I actually just finished the book and I think the ending went fine that way, although yeah I did expect to see it play out as you'd recomend.

It was very out of left wing though how they decided to go with the ending could not have predicted that. But the whole book really blew my mind, a really amazing read, this is coming from someone who's a much bigger batman fan.

I'd recomend this book for those of you trying to get non-superman fans into the mythos.

 

[BH/HHH]

Loved it! But I really think Millar missed a golden story-telling opportunity. At the end of the book:

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When Lara and Jor-L launch baby Kal into space,

How cool would it have been

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to have him land in Kansas, growing in the Superman we know and love?

Did anybody else think the same thing?

Been a while since I read this yeah in the end

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he lands where he landed at the beginning right? he should've landed in Kansas at the end

 

[CLARKY]

Hey spidey-Nooch, it did not disturbed me but the idea came to me. I read maybe too fast, but I did miss the sentence saying something [BLACKOUT]like "Russia, 1938" and I first thought that was US. An elseworld way to say that Krypton was earth 100000 years ago or so. For me it is fine as it is. It works perfectly. But the idea that he could have landed in the US is good for me too.[/BLACKOUT]
My biggest regret about the genius book, is that I would have enjoy a US dictator as much as a russian one, or at the opposite, a russian superhero who does not become a dictator would have been interesting too.
This book is one of my favorites.