Originally posted by sifer
This... made me look at Superman through different eyes.
Are those comic even real?
Yeah, they're real, but they aren't "real" in the classic sense. Some are like "alternate reality" Superman comics... As for the others...
See, Superman is so damned powerful that there was never any question about whether he would prevail or not. You can only play the Kryptonite card so many times, and nothing else really got to him. So the writers/artists would make those comic covers to make you wonder why Superman was being such a collosal assh*le. And there was always a legitimate excuse in the end... i.e., Superman had to pretend to hate Lois Lane so the bad guy wouldn't hurt her, or pretend she is a criminal to keep her locked in jail for her own safety, or he had to pretend to be evil to make the bad guy think he had converted to the evil side or whatever.
