Superman Day 2026
Brick Crisis Presents: Superman Day 2026
Celebrate Superman 2026 with Brick Crisis Presents and this special presentation of The Monitor Tapes #6, with Dr. Anj, as we discuss the OG Superman – the Superman of Earth-2
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So… this one was a bit tricky. When Rolled Spine Podcasts started, we had each of our shows in a different feed, and I don’t think it did us any favors. When our host went under and we moved to Spotify, we found that we only got one feed per email address/log-in. Since we only ever managed weekly releases, and there was a clear divide between our raunchier group shows and my nerdier solo “clean” shows, we just alternated between the two accounts. With a big network like Fire & Water, involving nigh-daily shows from different contributors, a multitude of streams make more sense. Otherwise, not so much. Which is why it took me nearly a month to search for this random spin-off out of a Monitor Tapes episode, and I’m still the only comment so far.
Anyway, for me Earth-Two Superman is kind of a dead topic, since Geoff Johns did have the “courage” to kill him off almost exactly twenty years to the day of this comment (May 3, 2006.) As I toil over a probable two-part, many hours long Wonder Woman spotlight Secret Files, the irony struck me that Earth-Two Princess Diana and Steve Trevor have long outlived their world’s Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Funny that after all the hand-wringing over Earth-One Wonder Woman’s last minute devolution in Crisis #12, her antecedent is comparatively sitting pretty. Too bad about their daughter, though.
I profess to liking Lois Lane, but I confess that I find it deeply concerning how often she ends up with a Luthor in different timelines. What kind of person finds themselves in a place where their most consistent romantic choices are Clark and Lex? Shouldn’t Earth-Three Lois Lane-Luthor be a villainess, or at least that world’s Megyn Kelly? If Alexander Luthor, Sr. was such a good dude, how did he end up with her, and is she the reason Alex Junior broke bad?
I think Joe Staton started the affectation of drawing Earth-Two Superman in the style of Joe Shuster, and that’s my preferred representation. It doesn’t necessarily make sense for him to age into a Wayne Boring mold, since Earth-One Superman was the version seen in the Silver Age. I honestly thought Perez drew the two Supermen too similarly for the “differences” cited from Crisis to hold water. Again, we have a somewhat parallel conversation around the Wonder Women of multiple Earths coming soon (though the Earth-Two Wonder Woman talk will probably land on part two in June.) I would dispute the value of Earth-Two Superman’s decades of additional experience over Earth-One Superman, because those experiences are comparatively provincial. The Man of Tomorrow didn’t experience his full bloom into science-fantasy until the Silver Age, and generally speaking, Earth-One is “bigger” and more cosmic. Kal-L was exposed to, like, a kryptonite in his day.