This is kinda old news (two days) but I just found a corresponding picture to accompany the story. It looks like ‘Superman’ will get another reboot, this time “darker.” From WSJ.
Like the recent Batman sequel — which has become the highest-grossing film of the year thus far — Mr. Robinov wants his next pack of [...]

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Yale University Press
Available online
Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through 1 September
After I ooh and aah over the bold colours and steel-plated cover of “Superheroes,” I next notice the glossy pages which smell just like the trading cards I remember as a kid. Those were of superheroes, too, and they captured the frames [...]

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Lex Luthor is leaving, and Clark Kent will face some new baddies on “Smallville’s” eighth season next fall. The future villains: Doomsday, who in the DC Comics universe killed Superman, and a Babe, described as “intelligent, brilliantly manipulative, and dangerously sinister,” whom CK finds himself attracted to, one advantage that Lex didn’t have

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