“The marketing for this is weird, because it feels like itâs playing at âWhat if SUPERMAN tried to solve societyâs ills?â kind of thing, but itâs really not overly political.
Iâm not a big fan of the stories of superheroes trying to solve our real world problems like income inequality and so on, mostly because they cannot solve those problems.
See, in the world of comics, superheroes exist. In our world, they donât. In the world of comics, there is a HUGE X factor (see what I did there?) that would certainly throw off social and economic forces in pretty significant ways, but those are not things that happen in our world.
When an evil dictator from another dimension tries to destroy our existence every few months, wouldnât this change the economy?
If alien species existed, wouldnât this change our society somewhat?
But the real problem is the flip side: superman isnât real, therefore superman cannot solve real world problems.
Because superman can attempt to address the problems of our world using methods that arenât available. There is no human who can stop a natural disaster like superman can. There is no human who could pick up a sinking ship and bring it to shore.
Any suggestion of a way superman could solve a problem, related to the real world, is like wishing or magic or shit like that. Itâs not really applicable.
But while the covers and back copy would have you think this book is going to be superman feeding the hungry or whatever, itâs not so much. He does some of that stuff, but itâs not obnoxious, itâs not like anyone is pretending theyâve got the answers.
Which is good, because I DO have the answers, and I plan to deploy my robot man with a kryptonite heart any day now to get those answers in place!”