David Harth

6 days ago | comicbook.com | David Harth

Superman has a certain reputation among fans. The biggest complaint most people have about Superman is that he’s too powerful. There’s some credence to this. Superman’s powers reached since dizzying heights as him being able to move faster than light and move planets with little difficulty. Superman’s level of power usually works out that he’s as powerful as he needs to be to win. This can make it quite difficult to find a villain that can actually endanger Superman.

6 days ago | comicbook.com | David Harth

“Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” was a huge part of the childhood of a certain generation of kids, growing up watching rerurns of the 1950s Superman TV show at their grandparents’ house. Superman as a household name was actually petty common for the majority of the 20th century, and it’s only in recent years that Superman has fallen below the pop cultural radar, mostly because of the MCU’s complete domination of the superhero world.

1 week ago | comicbook.com | David Harth

2025 is a huge year for superheroes, especially this summer. Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps are both going to be in theaters, going head to head. Marvel and DC are both pulling out all the stops for movie fans to get into their comics, with 2025 being dubbed the “Summer of Superman” for DC, while Marvel starts to reprint multiple Fantastic Four stories.

1 week ago | comicbook.com | David Harth

Grant Morrison has made a big announcement, revealing their return to the Big Two for the first time since DC Pride 2023. Morrison’s career in the last few years has been very different than what it was in the past. They wrote a novel, Luda, an extremely queer story of magic, love, and hate, and have also been using their Substack to talk about their older works, as well as experimenting with the comic art form.

1 week ago | comicbook.com | David Harth

Lex Luthor is a complicated part of the Superman legacy. Lex Luthor has been around since the Golden Age, and while he wasn’t always Superman’s arch-enemy — back then it was the Ultra-Humanite — he’s grown into that role beautifully. However, Luthor became something special as the years went on, shifting from the simplistic villain of the old days to something much more complex. Luthor has grown and changed over the years, to the point that he’s been an ally of Superman for the last several years.