Not so brief thoughts on James Gunn's Superman and Nerd Media!
Hey there, I know it's been a while but as I'm getting ready to post some new essays here in the near future I had a mountain of thoughts on the current state of superhero media in general and especially Superman as I feel it's a turning point for many in the space. This is an animation blog and it will stay that way but now and again I'll branch out and cover other topics as I did with architecture back in the day. I'll break this up into parts to make it easier to digest so let's jump right in! Introduction So after seeing the initial Superman trailers I was cautiously optimistic. As a longtime cape media enthusiast, I've had a very rocky relationship with WBs output outside the animation space, while some found things to enjoy in the DCEU era, I very much got disillusioned in that part of my fandom and started to question my own taste, if this was what so many other DC fans liked, was I even a DC fan after all? Were all my favourite adaptations...