Lew, this is a telling development. Good for DC and good for Superman!
I’ve always been a Marvel fan, but boycotted Spider-Man once he was portrayed as fawning over Obama (see my LRC post Spider-Man, Criminal — or, the real death of Spider-Man). One of my favorite comics as a kid was the DC/Marvel Superman vs. Spiderman “crossover” book. Now we know who to side with.
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Update: Reader Chip Norman writes:
I think you’re being a bit hard on Spider-Man — he can’t help who they draw him next to. And don’t forget that Spidey’s co-creator, the great Steve Ditko, is an Objectivist, which has to be better than nothing. In contrast, Superman was created as a propaganda vehicle for union thugs. And while it’s good that he renounced his citizenship, I doubt it was in a spirit of secession; I bet this is paving the way for a Globalist Superman (the Justice League is already the U.N. with capes).
This is a great time to point you to Paul Pope’s libertarian take on Batman, where the hero saves Mises’s works from the Nazis. It’s amazing.
