I Don't Hate Superman
But man, once upon a time, I really didn't like him very much. Not as much as I dislike Batman, but really, for quite a while when he was in the Justice League, he was a real jerk. And when I speak of the justice League, I mean the later part of the old JLI. Bats had mostly bowed out, and Superman was reluctantly filling in for him. He treated Guy like crap, and surprisingly enough, he wasn't particularly nice to anybody else either, I remember that Blue Beetle wasn't very happy with his treatment either. Then Ice went and had that silly little crush on him, which made Guy all sad and surly.
Still, I have to admit that this panel does make me smile.
This was the issue where the two of them were actually off to rescue Hal. Neither Hal nor Superman are particularly delighted to have Guy along, but phooey on them. Without him, they would have been in deep trouble...so pooh.
But now, I have this incredible urge to go and eat some Spam.
Mmmmmmmmm....Spam.
posted by SallyP @ 12:46 PM
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I bet that any time now we'll learn that Max Lord used his mind powers to make Superman be rude to the JLI, so they wouldn't want Superman around, because they're easier to control without the big guns. That dastardly dastardly Max Lord.
An interesting thought, Calvin, but I think that Superman was pretty annoying all on his own.
Interesting thing is, Superman in JLI was being written by one of his usual writers, Dan Jurgens. So the normal lamentations that a character's being disrespected outside of his own book don't apply here. This is how a Supes writer actually saw him. Dude invented Booster, but even then, Johns and Katz's run were the best Booster Gold stories to date.
Up to that point, the post-Crisis Supes had always said he was too busy to devote the time to the JLA; so I think he was subconsciously feeling resentful at having to take on more of the world's problems, and subsequently lashed out at his teammates. Furthermore, his teammates may not have been the easiest people in the world to get along with anyway, nor did their powersets compliment Superman's the way the later, Morrison-era team would.
That, or Superman is a dick.
I don't know I sort of got a kick out of Superman being a jerk every once in a while. Look at his first meeting with Booster. We have Booster being all fanboy-like until Superman turns his nose up on him when he learns of his origins. Even though Superman was in the right about the true bad guy of the arc he comes off petty. Which made their interacts so amusing. In a later story taking place exactly after his sisters' funeral Booster taunts Superman with Kryptonite moments after saving him and then steals Luthors' date.
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