Superman will be in two books – Action Comics and Superman.
In Superman he’s in the leotard-with-belt-and-techy-boots costume, it’s the “present” time, and he’s the trusted hero.
In Action Comics he’s in the jeans-and-tshirt costume, it’s basically the first year he appeared, and he’s (apparently) the first public hero, before he became trusted. His power level is also more Golden Age – strong, not quite invulnerable, dunno if he can fly yet. Grant Morrison is writing Action, so it’s likely to be good or trippy, or both.
I’m thinking that the Action costume forced whatever the Hell changes to Superboy that are underway, since jeans-and-tshirt is traditionally his costume. But it seems every character they’re putting in Teen Titans is going through the mangler…
Finally, it’s probably a bad thing that Supergirl’s El-crest-shaped panty shield (protecting her super-girlhood) is red…
Batman is going to be Bruce Wayne. In the current Batman continuity – which isn’t changing (much. apparently.), Bruce has franchised the Batman identity into Batman, Inc. (written by Morrison…).
There is going to be a Batman-of-Africa book, and that Batman is a black African. Called Batwing or something or other.
The first jean and T-shirt costume has a bit too much of a borderline “Tom of Finland” gay porn look for my tastes.
The one color action suit with the boots is kind of boring. If they are going to re-boot the whole Superman universe he ought to (IMO) get an entirely new costume.
The Supergirl outfit is better than the old mini-skirt and bare midriff outfit. That outfit was always kind of (again IMO) stupid. The extreme crotch-leg-hip cut seems to almost a requirement for most female costumes these days. I don’t know how Supergirl is going to give herself the necessary constant Brazilians. Power Girl will have to advise her.
Oh, good golly damn. The unfortuante Dr. Quinzel does look far more dangerous this way. When she is all perky and cute you could almost forget that she is aiding and abetting a psychopathic mass murderer.
I don’t really see much wrong with the costume redesigns. The biggest thing against them is they are little bland. My guess is the jeans and t-shirt costume is something Clark throws together quickly. Maybe he gets the other one after “meeting” Jor-El and establishing the Fortress of Solitude. Which probbaly had better manufacturing capabilities than a farm boy/reporter has.
Superman had a mullet for a few years. He’s never been cool.
… Neither of those patches are actually on a knee, are they? One’s on a shin, the other on a thigh. Or maybe anatomical leg weirdness is a Kryptonian trait, like the freaky long legs they show Supergirl with.
Maybe he has cats? My old jeans don’t wear out at the knees first; they usually develop holes where a cat or some other sharp object made a starter-hole.
Supergirl has the cat. Superman is a dog person. And unless they’re Kryptonian jeans, I don’t think they’d survive Krypto chewing on them… or heat-visioning them… or freeze-breathing them.
