CandidGamera. What this? An even handed synopsis of The Kingdom that doesn’t feature the words “crap”, “crappy”, “craptastic”, “crap-o-rama”, "craptacular, “crapola”, “craptivating”, “crapdiddiliocious”, “supercrapifragilicioisexpialidocious” and “Crap-on-a-stick-is-tastier.” You are as tactful as everyone says you are.
Note that Moore’s “Uncle Sam” paragraph is a precise synopsis of Ross’ US two-part comic about Uncle Sam that he did right AFTER finishing Kingdom Come. Also, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to learn Warren Ellis swiped the idea for “a secret council of the immortals” from this screed: Planetary uses this motif several times.
Fair enough. Superman’s “intergrity” though led him to fail at some pretty spectacular times and required others who were willing to act (Magog in a metaphorical sense and WW in a literal one) to cause him to act. Superman’s always been reactive to a degree that I could never even beging to like him. In fact, I think he’s most uninteresting superhero out there (other than Daredevil, but that’s a close one).
Granted, I don’t read any Superman, but he always seems like a foil to something rather than a character on his own.
Again, fair enough, but this is general enough that I think we could apply this to nearly any superhero story
This does bring up the interesting idea of limits, but then again, every superhero story deals with these.
For the record, I loved the much-maligned EARTH X.