Kino Lefter

PREVIEW: Superman: Red Son, now featuring American values!

April 10, 2020 Abdul Malik, Laura Kruse, and Evan MacDonald
Kino Lefter
PREVIEW: Superman: Red Son, now featuring American values!
Show Notes

This adaptation of the 2003 DC Comics Elseworlds story is an ideologically-poisoned work and Kino Lefter is the cure. 

From Mark Millar, the Michael Bay of comics, and the political scientists at Warner Bros. Animation comes a "revamped" telling of this classic Superman tale that ruins much of what made the original an interesting work. 

What is Superman landed in Soviet Ukraine and became a hero of the working class? A neat idea that this adaptation fails to capitalize on. Communism is when things are bad, capitalism = freedom, technocracy rules, and anyone who believes in justice is a fool. We had things to say.

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