For those of you who are in college and like me, are rather confused what to do in the future. Pick up DC Comic's Superman Earth One Vol 1 & 2, I can guarantee that you'll find something that speaks to you about your problems.
I've read both novels before, but never ever saw it from this perspective that DC Comics has brought iconic superheroes down to ground levels. The stories are heroic and all, but they also deal with individual futures, opportunity, belief and love.
In Superman Earth One, the comic begins with Clark Kent moving to Metropolis fresh out of Junior College. It deals with him looking at various job prospects, and this is where I began to see the connections. I am confused regarding what I want to do once I leave college and enter the real world. There are things that I am good at, there are things I am passionate about and then there are the things I want to do, Same as Clark. (except for him it's a vast ocean of options)
Clark tries out for a professional football team, and we know that Superman on a American Football field would have really resulted in some rather one-sided matches. Clark in this iteration of Superman is also in possession of a genius level intellect, which is highlighted when he is interviewed at a research-centric MNC.
He does spectacularly in both, and as he explains to his mother, taking any one of those jobs would result in him being set for life, he'd never have to worry about money or anything. As Martha Kent aptly puts it, parents aren't interested with their children monetarily supporting them. Tall and Strong children are meant to build the future.
These words resonate deeply with Superman as he is now poised with the nexus of choosing what he loves, what he is good at or what he wants to do. We all know the story, he joins the Daily Planet.
However, he doesn't join for Lois Lane or some nonsense like that, he joins because it is there that he sees people that stand for something, people who are willing to "Stay and Die for the Truth".
This makes the end message of Superman Earth One, one where it is clear that it doesn't matter if you do something that makes you money, you'll never be happy until you do what you want to do. Even if that is becoming the best Banjo Player in the world.
Another reference to us college students that we should be aiming for futures we want. Futures that we want to make.
I've read both novels before, but never ever saw it from this perspective that DC Comics has brought iconic superheroes down to ground levels. The stories are heroic and all, but they also deal with individual futures, opportunity, belief and love.
In Superman Earth One, the comic begins with Clark Kent moving to Metropolis fresh out of Junior College. It deals with him looking at various job prospects, and this is where I began to see the connections. I am confused regarding what I want to do once I leave college and enter the real world. There are things that I am good at, there are things I am passionate about and then there are the things I want to do, Same as Clark. (except for him it's a vast ocean of options)
Clark tries out for a professional football team, and we know that Superman on a American Football field would have really resulted in some rather one-sided matches. Clark in this iteration of Superman is also in possession of a genius level intellect, which is highlighted when he is interviewed at a research-centric MNC.
He does spectacularly in both, and as he explains to his mother, taking any one of those jobs would result in him being set for life, he'd never have to worry about money or anything. As Martha Kent aptly puts it, parents aren't interested with their children monetarily supporting them. Tall and Strong children are meant to build the future.
These words resonate deeply with Superman as he is now poised with the nexus of choosing what he loves, what he is good at or what he wants to do. We all know the story, he joins the Daily Planet.
However, he doesn't join for Lois Lane or some nonsense like that, he joins because it is there that he sees people that stand for something, people who are willing to "Stay and Die for the Truth".
This makes the end message of Superman Earth One, one where it is clear that it doesn't matter if you do something that makes you money, you'll never be happy until you do what you want to do. Even if that is becoming the best Banjo Player in the world.
Another reference to us college students that we should be aiming for futures we want. Futures that we want to make.
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