Published by
Manuel Del Vicente
Comics series
The Curse of Superman
As Seen In: Action Comics [2011] #9
“That’s it. The dotted line. You won’t regret this.”
The most recent Superman story to appear on this list, Grant Morrison and Gene Ha’s Action Comics #9 departed from Morrison’s regularly scheduled Superman tale in DC’s New 52 reboot and spun a surprisingly accusatory metaphor for the corporatization of the Superman ideal and the harsh treatment of his creators.
In this story, we’re taken to Earth 23 where President Superman meets a group of dimension hoppers that inform him of how the Superman idea they’d created was co-opted by an evil corporation and watered down in order to have cross-market appeal. But Morrison doesn’t portray just DC’s history in a negative light, he also makes it perfectly clear that this problem comes from the fandom as well.
The Curse of Superman is a metaphor for how diluted the message of Superman can become when held up against the struggle of sales and industry trends. Certainly not the most optimistic tale on this list, but an important one nonetheless.
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