Small town boy makes good? or big city media conglomeration makes believe?

Absolute Superman is an ostensible return to the character's origin as a voice (and fist) for the masses, but can we trust DC Comics (a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery) to deliver such a hero?

More importantly, does the book's intent even matter?

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Special thanks to our Lovable Sidekicks: Better Possible Futures, Kourtney Smith, Walt Lewellyn, Kafka, The Black Casebook's Very Own Nightwing, JD Lunt, Ambird, Mr. Pig from the Intervention, Travis Armstrong, Chris Marks, Wirecats, Sheeee-itttt, VoidTek, and Richard Bell

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How many of your neighbors have you met?

When was the last time you helped the homeless?

Do you, as a worker, have the power to affect government policy?

Organizing takes many forms, some immediate and some sustained. While the abilities of Superman would certainly be helpful, they're by no means necessary to build a world that protects the vulnerable.

Journey with us as we explore historical currents in oppression and the never ending battle to oppose them.

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Issues covered:

Justice League America 70

The Adventures of Superman 498

Action Comics 685

Superman: The Man of Steel 20

Superman 76

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What does it mean to be "super?"

What does it mean to have "power?"

The Death and Return of Superman has us asking these questions in an era when it was less and less appropriate to do so.

It was also a time of deep unrest, being the first sprout from the seeds of counterrevolution the previous decade. The ostensible leaders of resistance to such reaction were about to take us on quite the merry chase, and many liberals in the US were relieved to be "represented" once again, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Join us. Join us as the Man of Steel dies and with him, our tomorrows. We may yet see them reborn.

Welcome to season three of Collective Action Comics.

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Issues covered:

Superman: The Man of Steel 18

Justice League America 69

Superman 74

The Adventures of Superman 497

Action Comics 684

Superman: The Man of Steel 19

Superman 75

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IT'S A SAN DIEGO COMIC CON TAKEOVER, FOLKS!

Many thanks to SDCC for hosting our panel "Revolutionary Comics: Revolutionaries in Our Comics!"

Five wonderful creators, one amazing moderator, and some goofy schlub with a podcast came together to talk radical politics in comics we love, our visions for the future of comics, and how we engage with creative works socially.

**Apologies for the panel audio, it's explained in the intro. Please feel free to write in making fun of me for being an absent minded doofus.**

Find the slide deck here: https://tinyurl.com/revolutionaryslideshow

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Find everyone here:

Alec Robbins: http://alec.land/

Iggy Craig: https://iggy.zone/

Mariah-Rose Marie: https://www.mariah-rose.com/

Julio Anta: https://www.julioanta.com/

Jacoby Salcedo: https://www.jacobysalcedoart.com/

Cartoonist Coop: https://cartoonist.coop/

That Distant Fire: https://www.thatdistantfire.com/

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Today in Bonus Feed Land, the irrepressible Neil Kapit takes the stand as a character witness for that plucky upstart Tony Stark! Neil asserts that, while Iron Man might not be the most beloved superhero on the left, the pathos and self-sacrifice of this demon-haunted Avenger speak to a far more interesting human being than the movies or Mark Millar would have us believe.

Find the full episode on Patreon!

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Thank you all for a wonderful three years of Collective Action Comics!

Please find attached the answers to all your burning questions. I tried my best to answer each one with the appropriate proportion of sass and humility.

Here's to the future! Very proud to be fighting for it alongside all of you.

(Please don't X-communicate me for having once liked Joss Whedon's X-Men)

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Today in Bonus Feed Land, friend of the show Shaun Corley takes Nat on a historical jaunt through a catalog of Marvel's earliest anticommunist stories and characters all the way up to some of their more recent racist depictions of dastardly foreigners.

Find the full episode on the Patreon!

(A contribution to MECA has been made in Shaun's name in appreciation for his appearance on the show.)

BIG APOLOGIES FOR THE AUDIO QUALITY. Nat was trying something new, and boy howdy did it not work.

https://screenrant.com/author/shaun-corley/

https://www.instagram.com/corleyontheshore/

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Today in Bonus Feed Land, we laugh! We cry! The great critic and writer Elizabeth Sandifer walks Nat through Mark Millar from his earliest work (it might surprise you) to his most recent corporate gambit (it won't)!

https://www.eruditorumpress.com/last-war-in-albion

https://www.patreon.com/elizabethsandifer

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From oil fields to poppy fields to killing fields, the United States lays claim upon the world. Overwhelming force in service of the export of capital requires constant presence and insistent justification.

There is no excuse too craven nor apologia too callow for the media that abets these crimes. No matter how you costume it, the violence is beyond vindication and even beyond satire.

Our heroes can do better. We can do better. We will.

(This season owes love and gratitude to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, without whom poetry would be incomplete.)

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You asked, we delivered! We're finally doing it, folks! We're tackling the movies!

In this sweeping interview, Walt from the Black Casebook breaks down what works and what doesn't about Whedon's two Avengers movies and how they compare politically and narratively to Millar's The Ultimates.

Subscribe on Patreon to hear the whole thing!

Listen to the Black Casebook anywhere fine podcasts are sold!

https://pod.link/1618791941

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