{"id":1647,"date":"2019-07-31T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2019-07-31T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T13:35:33","slug":"review-superman-red-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-superman-red-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Superman: Red Son, by Mark Millar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/supermanredson.jpg\" alt=\"Superman: Red Son.\" class=\"wp-image-1648\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I read this graphic novel with great hope as it was based on a great idea.  Imagine if Kal-El, son of Krypton, had landed not in Smallville in the American midwest, but on a collective farm in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during the Stalin era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, the book does not live up to the possibilities and quickly becomes just another superhero story.  All the usual characters are there &#8212; Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, etc., as are real figures, such as Stalin himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the authors, while steeped in Superman lore (they recreated the shrunken city of Kandor as Stalingrad), seem fairly ignorant about most (or all) things Soviet.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a pity.  This could have been so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this graphic novel with great hope as it was based on a great idea. Imagine if Kal-El, son of Krypton, had landed not in Smallville in the American midwest, but on a collective&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}