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[Reign of the Super-Man]

The online version of Angel Criado's illustrated Reign of the Super-Man is complete (all four chapters of the original story); although I do plan to post clearer, sharper versions of the uploaded pages in the near future;

Still to come - the exclusive bonus epilogue!

Expanded the K-Metal timeline with some new information on Gladiator and Copper-Clad World.

Slight redesign and new banner on the main trilogy pages.

Obtained the new project domain name: k-metal.com

[Two]

Just a quick update that Chapters Two and Three have been added; along with the Introduction.





More to come!

[Reign of the Super-Man]

The first chapter of Angel Criado's four-part revival of Reign of the Super-Man, "The Encounter", is now online!



https://k-metalfromkrypton.com/part-one/

[k-metalfromkrypton.com]

Just in case there's anyone actually here I will mention that recently there has been some forward movement on the K-Metal project.

We now have a new front page with new URL:



k-metalfromkrypton.com

My next step is to put the Reign of the Superman story online; while Angel is alternating his time between the exclusive Reign epilogue; Lara, Empress of Earth!;  and K-Metal: Reckoning.

Due to the recent performance issues caused by AI scrapers, which has led to the site being taken offline by our hosting provider, forum access is now limited to registered users only.

Guest users can only see announcements on this "Guest Access" board (and for now, the K-Metal board as well).

In order to access the rest of the historic, scholarly, and supermanic  Superman Through the Ages! discussion forum, please either log in; or register an account.

Since instituting this policy, site performance has been markedly improved, apparently resulting in (hopefully) little to no downtime.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

[HERE]

A couple of things today -

I recently let my excitement get the better of me and asked Angel if he had anything from "Reign of the Superman" that he could share yet.  So he sent me some screenshots, which I put up HERE.  Thanks, Angel!

I've been trying to figure out ways to get word out that the K-Metal project is active again, that we finally have a complete comic, and that we have new material (both new restored 1940 pages, and new chapters in the saga) coming up.  The 'net is different now than it was 20 years ago; I can't just throw up a cheap banner ad somewhere - that option doesn't seem to exist.

One option I'm trying is that I created a Wordpress blog, because search engines like them and they seem to get traffic. I hope to populate it with a bunch of old legacy articles and forum announcements; but also create new material for it.

So it's looking both to the past and to the future.

As part of that plan, I started to write a more recent summary of the significance and discovery of the K-Metal story because I felt that the existing information is a bit out of date and contains a lot of anachronistic assumptions. One of those assumptions, which has since been repeated elsewhere, is that K-Metal is the precursor to Kryptonite.  But in reading Harl Vincent's 1931 tale, "The Copper-Clad World," I realized that it's not. It's the exact opposite. Kryptonite takes powers away, but K-Metal gives them. I try to explain what I mean by that HERE.

I will go on to say that I think Copper-Clad World was a big influence on Jerry, up there with Phillip Wylie's "Gladiator" and I'm surprised I've never heard this mentioned anywhere.

Copper-Clad World includes:

K-Metal, a mysterious "energizing metal";
A world where many things are described as being the color "green", due to the prevalence of copper (Krypton was often described as being a green bubble). This planet is entirely encased in copper shielding - a big, copper "bubble."
A villain with amazing powers of perception who can control the emotions and actions of other people through sheer mental ability; this would later be used in Siegel and Shuster's "Reign of the Superman";
The planet is destroyed due to an explosion involving the K-Metal;
A lone survivor of said planet who escapes in a small rocket and comes to Earth.

I suppose it could just be coincidence.

[Superman Through the Ages! comic]

I'd really love to have a 1970s or 1980s Kirby-verse Superman storyline going in the Superman Through the Ages! comic. I've got the cover picture all picked out, now I just need to find someone who'll write and draw it...



This wouldn't necessarily be the Fourth World/Jimmy Olsen stuff; but something new - a new take on Superman: What if DC had handed the Superman keys to Kirby, and he could build it all from the ground up? What would he have done with Krypton, with the "Superman Family", with the mythos, with the origin, if there were no restrictions on him? What kind of costume would Superman have? What would Krypton be like? Would he do a minimalistic 1940s Superman; or a super-cosmic, outer-spacey Superman?  What kind of hero would Kirby's Superman be?

The stuff of dreams.

[Historic Cover Gallery]

Added a new section - a collection of Superman Through the Ages! comic book covers in the new Historic Cover Gallery section.  I plan to add more as I remember them and where they are.

[beautiful comic]

Two recent arrivals now online, pages 3 and 4 of "Lara, Empress of Earth!":





Many thanks to Mark and Angel for creating such a beautiful comic!!

[updated the featured article]

Just a reminder that Supermanica still exists, and I have updated the featured article.

https://www.daughterofkrypton.com/supermanica/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I also discovered a bunch of spam articles had been created, so I cleaned those out and banned the troublesome legacy user (he had previously been banned in 2008, but for much smaller offenses). I figure his account was hacked, although it was odd that he spent two days creating spammy pages but then just stopped on his own.