Bad days is a web series that shows that life is not always peachy keen just because you have super powers.

Take, f’rinstance, Superman. Is there trouble in paradise for The Man of Steel and Lois Lane?

Watch a Superman-centric Bad Days!

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Here’s the latest trailer for Zack Snyder’s Siperman reboot, Man of Steel. As we know from the recent General Zod teaser, it looks like this reboot skips right to a General Zod story line. There also looks like some “boy coping with powers” thread that attempts to lend some weight to the character. Time will tell.

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The awesome, wish-I-had-their-job folks at How It Should Have Ended have put together another episode in which the ever-egotistical Batman shares his thoughts with Superman on the Man of Steel trailer…

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Warner Brothers has given us a proper trailer for next summer’s Man of Steel from director Zack Snyder and producer Christopher Nolan.  Definitely looks to be a darker take on Superman than what we’ve seen in the past, but is it enough to wash the creepy/stalker Supes from Superman Returns from our memories?

Check it out after the jump.

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If you cruise on over to the Warner Bros. YouTube channel, you’ll see that they have posted some videos of the Max Fleischer Superman cartoon episodes. Fleischer is a pioneer of the animated cartoon industry and these cartoons have a certain charm to them, don’t they?

Here’s the first episode, simply titled “Superman”…
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Here’s a documentary exposing the man behind the muscle: a day in the live of 19-year character vet Christopher Dennis, paying his dues as Hollywood Superman.

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Superman knows a lot of words that start with “S”, as evidenced by this classic commercial for…I dunno…letters, I guess.
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Being a superhero is not without its dangers…
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A couple of months old…but still funny.
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Back in 1954, The U.S. Treasury department produced a special epsiode of The Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves as Superman and Noel Neill as Lois Lane. The resulting ‘educational’ episode, “Stamp Day for Superman” was meant to promote the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds and was distributed to schools.

Check out the rarely seen episode through the magic of YouTube…
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“After a long day working two jobs, Superman’s duties never seem to end when Krypto decides that this must be the place.”
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Here’s a quick roundup of trailers that may interest genre fans…

This is version 1 of the new Superman…err…I mean, Man of Steel trailer. Trailer 2 is the same, but features Russell Crowe’s voice-over instead of Kevin Costner’s. Either way…more teaser than trailer.

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This is the weirdest one ever.
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Pretty much speaks for itself…

[via Cartoon Brew]

Gina Misiroglu is a pop-culture historian, best-selling author, and editor of The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (2nd edition, Visible Ink Press). To find out more about what happens to superheroes in the Modern Age, look for Gina’s next guest blog coming soon!

By Gina Misiroglu, author of The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (Visible Ink Press / $24.95).

During the 1960s, Marvel Comics snuck up on DC Comics and usurped the industry’s number-one spot. DC’s editorial director, Carmine Infantino, started the 1970s with both guns blazing, vowing to regain DC’s market share. The biggest bullet in Infantino’s holster was the illustrious Jack Kirby, the veteran artist who co-created most of Marvel’s major superheroes, including Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and the X-Men.

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Superheroes are going to feature in this column quite a bit over the next few installments. Not exclusively, but pretty regularly.

I could waffle on at length about the fascinating idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of the whole superhero sub-genre that’s essentially run in the US by Marvel and DC, but I’m not sure anyone else would find it half as fascinating as I do (although, honestly, it’s one of the most unusual systems for creating, publishing, distributing and selling fiction you could ever imagine). So for now here’s just one proposition that sets the scene for the two titles I thought I’d talk about today.

Quite a lot of the long-running superhero series display a couple of apparently contradictory characteristics that can be an obstacle for the objective, casual (i.e. non-‘fan’) reader. They revel in dense and new-reader-hostile continuity, the established canon of past stories that exists in their respective shared universes; yet they also play fast and loose with the narrative, psychological or physical plausibility and internal consistency that are staples of most other kinds of fiction. Sometimes, superhero comics require not so much the suspension of disbelief as its ritual sacrifice upon an altar dedicated to the gods of never-ending, bombastic soap opera.
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Gina Misiroglu is a pop-culture historian, best-selling author, and editor of The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (Visible Ink Press, $24.95).

By Gina Misiroglu, author of The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (Visible Ink Press / $24.95).

An advent of the twentieth century and a clear marker of American popular culture, costumed superheroes have achieved historic milestones within the last seventy-five years of American history. Much like in radio, film, and television, several key “ages” have defined comic-book history in general and the superhero genre specifically. Characterized as periods of artistic advancement and commercial success, the superhero ages are generally classified as the Golden Age (1938-1954), the Silver Age (1956-1969), the Bronze Age (1970-1980), the Late Bronze Age (1980-1984), and the Modern Age (1985-present).
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Loosely based on Mark Waid’s JLA comic book story arc, “JLA: Tower of Babel”, Justice League: Doom is the latest in the line of animated DC Movies from Warner Brothers. Adapted and written by Dwayne McDuffie, Justice League: Doom features Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash (Barry Allen), The Green Lantern (Hal Jordon) and Martian Manhunter battling Metallo, Bane, Cheetah, Mirror Master, Star Sapphire, Ma’alefa’ak and Vandal Savage for the fate of the world.

Let’s face it; Batman/Bruce Wayne is a dick.  He doesn’t trust anyone, he lurks in the dark, plays with bats, puts together comprehensive scenarios to take down his fellow Justice League members…that sort of thing…
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Nathan Fillion (the voice of Green Latern) comes to the aid of Tim Daly (the voice of Superman)…

[Thanks, Eddie!]