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This is neat the first link says that
The House of El," in Hebrew Beit El, which means "The House of God."
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but his first encounters with criminals -- and with Nazis -- in the 30s and 40s had him behaving more like Samson than the Superman we know today. Mostly land bound, he lifted cars and tanks and shook out the bad guys. Bullets couldn't hurt him, but exploding mortar shells could.
Joe Shuster's original drawings had him wearing sandals laced up to the calf. Reportedly, a colorist tired of all the detail work filled them in with red and turned them into the red boots now known as part of the Superman costume. (I'm glad they changed that)
Last link had this
Clark Kent was raised as a Methodist. (I don't know why, but I'm not sure I caught that before.)
also
Superman has been depicted many times praying.
This was very interesting.
Elliot S! Maggin: I give all my characters religions. I think I always have. It's part of the backstory. It's part of the process of getting to know a character well enough to write about him or her. Jimmy Olson is Lutheran. Lois is Catholic. Perry is Baptist. Luthor is Jewish (though non-observant, thank heaven). Bruce and Batman are both Episcopalian and I said so in the text though it was edited out erroneously. Clark - like the Kents - is Methodist. Superman is something else, but I never did buy all that Kryptonian "Great Rao" nonsense. I do think Superman essentially adheres to a kind of interplanetary-oriented Kryptonian-based belief system centered on monotheistic philosophy, and I've got some ideas about it that I haven't yet articulated other than as backstory. I think Superman is too humble to ask for things in prayer, but I think he prays by rote, and constantly, the way some of us talk to ourselves in the shower.
I'm not sure how he seperates Clark's and Superman's idea of religion since Clark is really Superman, and Superman is just a disguise Clark wears. At least that's the way I see it. If you ever watched Lois and Clark you may have heard one of my favorite lines, "Clark is who I am, Superman is what I can do".
I agree with his idea of giving each character their own religion. I think that makes them all more human. In the real world everyone isn't neutral. We all have some view point. I'm kind of confused by what he said about Superman being too humble to pray though. Prayer is actually an act of humility unless you do it like the Pharisees only for show.
This was also in that same page. I totally agree with this statment. -
DT [Doug TenNapel]: Ask any person about what they think about God and you will get an amazing story. It won't just be any old story either, it will likely cut straight to the core of who that person is. It's so bizarre to me that this most personal, dramatic, amazing story device is getting pressure to be removed by story-telling industries... including the supposedly progressive comics industry.
Nice links.
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