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[UncleSporkums]

Longtime Superman Through the Ages! reader UncleSporkums has spent the last 11 years (yes, eleven years) working on a classic Superman Radio Show adaptation of the K-Metal story. He recently finished it, now presented for your listening pleasure:



https://www.supermanthroughtheages.com/k-metal/radio-show/

(K-Metal radio show artwork courtesy of K-Metal artist Angel Criado)

Julian's GeoCities link no longer works, but I believe I have found the font here:

https://fontsgeek.com/fonts/OdaBalloon-Regular

Well, I've finally completed it after all these years.
https://youtu.be/UhO-7zdFOxU?si=ChFn66d2jx3IuScS

GREAT! I can't wait! Thanks so much to the team that has put so much into this throughout the years. In the future we may even get around to restoring more of the recently recovered pages!

[Jonathan Nathan]

A very special "Thank you!" to Jonathan Nathan (Never Were Comics blog) for sending a copy of the recently uncovered original 1940 artwork for page 22 -

which you can see right here!

Thank you, Jonathan.



Edit: I post more about this here.

[Kryptonese / Kryptonian Languages Page]

I've done a few small updates to the

Kryptonese / Kryptonian Languages Page

1 - to reflect that the comic books have recently reverted back to the 1980s form of "Kryptonese" (both the writing and the language) and away from the 2000-2023 crystalline "Kryptonian" transliteration font;
2 - to incorporate DC's recent clarification on the difference between the terms "Kryptonese" (the language) and "Kryptonian" (the cipher) which, in the past, have often been conflated.

Thank you so much, Sam - I really appreciate it!!

There was a time when I thought this website was some sort of Cosmic Superpower, steering the course of reality.  Now it's an obscure, tiny (and dare I say obselete?) fan site.

The rest of the 'net has changed a lot but I don't really plan to change anything here - other than hopefully updating this forum to a newer version!

Thank you, Gangbuster, very informative, and brings me up to date!

I think what you say makes sense; and I'm surprised at some of the stuff that I was completely unaware of.

I've been reading the new History of the DCU. Most of it is extremely familiar, but occasionally something pops up that leaves me scratching my head and I'll wonder: Did I miss that the first time around, or is this a continuity change that was slipped in?

For instance, the summary of the Teen Titans matches my memory of the '70s books 100%, and the summary of the New Teen Titans matches my memory of the Wolfman/Perez run 100%; but then it seems like they threw in this thing where Vic Stone originally had to become a cyborg because of an attack by Darkseid? That just seemed out of left field and totally changes a lot of the character's motivations.  Unless this was revealed in some 1980s one-shot and I missed it?  The whole thing just makes me not trust my memory.

I came across this today.  From a book published in 2005.  Just going to leave it here.

I think the real-world change that happened might have been Paul Levitz becoming DC president. After that the Krypto and Legion TV series are greenlighted, the retroboot Legion returns, etc.

Besides Loeb on Superman/Batman, Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek (who was a member of this forum) took over writing duties, and between the three of them and All-Star Superman there was a "Bronze Age revival" in the 2000s. I remember reading a reference to Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, they brought back the real Zod, and toward the end of Superman vol. 1 Superman was kind of down about things, so he went and had a talk with a coded Elliot Maggin.

In the "rebirth" era I think they have a taken a best-of (or "Superman Through the Ages," if you will) approach to Superman's backstory. The first Mxyzptlk story happened, so did the first Krypto story, Jim Shooter's run on Adventure Comics, Matt Fraction's Jimmy Olsen series showed all of the 60s Jimmy transformations occurring. Basically every Brainiac story has happened, he just has different avatars through the years. The 1990s Death and Wedding. But the new Supergirl series is really the first that is explicitly bringing back Bronze Age events.

There has generally been an "everything is true" approach to DC history in the last few years. On the other hand, Waid is doing a New History of the DC Universe right now, so the pendulum could swing in the other direction.