![]() ![]() It tells the story of the original legacy of his fight against bigotry and how Yang chose to update the story while still holding true to the roots of history, style, and diction. ![]() But the part that did it for me was Yang’s essay at the end of the book about his connection to Superman. Yes, the juxtaposition between Superman’s alienness and the Lees as “other” provides a depth that just sucks you in. There is an internal conflict between the life the Kent’s have set forth for him and the aliens who start to appear to Superman during the course of the book. This leads him to more discoveries about his backstory because in this book he isn’t aware of much of his mythos. Yet, in this action he finds is found one of Superman’s rare weaknesses, a metal that takes away his strength. Superman opens up the great novel with punching out a villain of his own: a leftover super Nazi named Mr. ![]() Lee, adjusts to his new position in the city’s health department, his children Roberta and Tommy find themselves at the front lines of racism in post-WW2 Metropolis. Unfortunately, this catches the eye of the bigots in the Ku Klux Klan. The story starts when the Lee family moves out of Metropolis’s Chinatown and into a ‘regular’ neighborhood. History, action, and the icon that is Superman. ![]()
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