Clark is Dick’s Super and always has been

consider with me. clark teaming up with 3 squeaks old kon. and kon gets mildly injured cause he doesn't have great understanding or control of his ttk yet..im talking like a mild cut or bruise or scrape lmao. and clark just looks it over and tsks goes "mmm yeah just as i thought. nothing to be done for it. we're gonna have to amputate." and kon - again, three squeaks old, has never been exposed to this joke before - looks at him with big shiny horrified eyes and a strangled "What!?"

dick, early on in bludhaven: ugh, can’t believe BRUCE is coming around to try and show me up in my own city. he thinks I’m so incompetent but I can handle myself!! He better not make me look like a sidekick in front of my new rogues gallery or I swear to god—

*superman one-hit KOs dick’s nemesis for him as a treat, instantly solving many of dick’s problems for the day*

dick: hee :)

going goblin mode about it

hello Mr Kent!

:D I should be sleeping but I promised myself to draw more of em kissing

Clark, you can’t eat that…

help why is he so fun to draw

(photo refs below the cut!)

Cause I'm a punkrocker, yes I am 🎶🦸✨

Superman (2025) persuasively sells you on something most other recent superhero movies don't, which is that a world with Superman is better off in meaningful ways than a world without.

It would fucking suck to live in the Marvel Universe as a non-superhero. You can identify with the protagonists, you can fantasize about being Tony Stark or whoever, but if you think about the civilians in those movies, the randos killed by the robot or sucked into the portal, it's hard to see the existence of superheroes as a net positive. They mostly seem to clean up problems that wouldn't have occurred in the first place without their egos and mistakes. Superman has a different emphasis though. The fantasy isn't just about having superpowers yourself, but about what if the natural disaster equivalent only did property damage, what if military aggression could be stopped in its tracks without a single civilian casualty, what if the evillest people in the world actually got their comeuppance.

It really meets the moment. I think a lot of us are wishing someone with power would do Literally Anything for the public good.

The core fantasy behind superheroes was originally "what if someone who had power used it to help people?", and of course that ideal was most directly embodied by Superman, who's also generally credited as the first superhero. Other early superheroes are often variations on that theme, like Batman's "what if someone with every imaginable privilege used it to help people?" It's very idealistic and earnest and it was so overwhelmingly successful for that reason in the turmoil of World War II.

Since then Marvel has often competed with DC by focusing on being more cynical and self aware, "more realistic" than DC, and DC in turn has tried to keep up by becoming darker and deconstructing itself. But that core of idealism and hope is really deeply ingrained in those early superheroes, and they've endured for as long as they have because that's still what's comforting and inspiring when it feels like everything around you is going to hell.

(the spectre 2001 #24)

Helen is a perfectly written weird too-smart kid and it is a tragedy we never got more of her!

bonus: he had this rattling around in the trunk of his jeep all the way from star city

I’m just saying, it was very funny reading this back to back with watching Superman 2025. Very much reminded me I do want to read more Superman books.

Never change, Lois.

(Superman #168 1986)

(‘Tec #756)

It’s just like…Bruce right there going ‘well I assumed you knew everything your husband did about something as basic as this, given we were hobnobbing earlier today, plus you’re an investigative reporter’

Plus

Lois and Bruce matching their freak levels in terms of ‘gotta look out for Clark, HE won’t do it himself’

Plus

Clark being so Disappointed at both of them and they’re like ‘?!?! You can’t tell me what to do! That ring will kill you! We care that it doesn’t!’

Trinity's getting chippy with each other uh oh Justice League Unlimited #10 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora

Superman & Lois by robean06.

I need a fic please