Perhaps you've heard about a little movie that's opening this week called "Man of Steel." The small, under-the-radar, kitchen sink drama follows the adventures of one Superman as he struggles with the kind of identity issues familiar to many x-ray sighted, preternaturally strong orphan aliens gifted with the power of flight, and saves humankind from a terrible peril. Our review will be coming later today, and while we're not going to include "Man of Steel" in our rating of the Superman films right now, come back next week when more of us have seen it and you can argue over its correct placement. Part of what makes Superman so compelling is how, all the way back in the 1930s, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel basically cannily repackaged a whole host of ancient myths and archetypes into a brightly-colored, exciting new format -- the comic strip -- and how in the years since, the Superman story has essentially ingrained itself into our collective pop culture experience to the...
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