SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN #1-7 (Landis / Collectif)

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Après plusieurs occasions manquées (notamment la réécriture de la saga The Death & Return of Superman avec Greg Pak pour le New 52), le scénariste Max Landis (Chronicle) débarque finalement chez DC Comics avec Superman: Alien American sous le bras.

A travers les sept numéros de cette mini-série, Landis relate les faits divers d’un jeune Clark Kent turbulent ayant à peine découvert l’entendue de ses pouvoirs et s’ajustant assez mal à la vie avec ses congénères.

Si l’artiste Ryan Sook se charge de l’intégralité des couvertures, chaque numéro sera cependant illustré par un artiste différent. Parmi eux: Jock, Nick Dragotta, Tommy Lee Edwards, Jöelle Jones, Jae Lee, Francis Manapul et Jonathan Case.

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Le site de l’éditeur: dccomics.com

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La morale, les valeurs et le caractère boy-scout de Superman titillent quand même grandement DC et les auteurs. Le nombre de récits montrant un « autre » Superman, avec un caractère différent, est quand même important. Il n’y a pas autant d’histoires sur un Batman « plus sage et doux », par exemple.

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Sur le principe je dirais pourquoi pas, mais j’avoue ne pas comprendre la volonté de DC et de piétiner sans arrêt les valeurs de Superman, de vouloir toujours le rendre plus sombre.

A croire que c’est stupide vouloir un monde meilleur et de toujours tenter de voir l’aspect positif des choses, La sinistrose chez DC j’ai vraiment de plus en plus de mal à la supporter.

Ca me donne envie de me relire l’Action Comics de Kelly ou il exploite les pouvoirs de Sup à fonds contre l’Elite et ou il se demande bien pourquoi il devrait être si sombre.

Sérieux Superman c’est pas Batman, je dis pas qu’il est parfait, mais ça reste LA définition du Super-héros au sens classique du terme.

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Oui. Mais vu que Man of Steel a un peu plus fonctionné que Superman Returns (pas tant que ça), que quelques critiques et globalement Internet en général ont accueilli avec bonheur un Superman plus sombre et violent, je doute que les valeurs et la morale du personnage soient encore respectées dans un proche avenir.

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Comment ça ?

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J’ai souvenir, à l’époque de sa sortie, que les critiques du film appréciaient cet aspect sombre. Et j’ai aussi souvenir, sur Allociné ou quelques forums (pas forcément ici), que beaucoup de spectateurs ou de lecteurs de comics qui n’apprécient pas Superman ont goûté cette violence et cet aspect dark. Une sorte de « retour positif » que Superman Returns n’avait pas.

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Une couverture supplémentaire de Superman: Alien American:

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Je n’ai pas aimé les deux !

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Perso, un Superman plus sombre, je n’étais pas spécialement en attente de.
En revanche, moins boy-scout, oui.

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sur les persos majeurs je trouve que c’est général

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Meuh non, voyons ! Stark pense qu’à boire des coups et à faire la fête !

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Sup ausi :slight_smile:

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sur les persos majeurs je trouve que c’est général[/quote]

J’en trouve certains épargnés. Stark il prend cher, pareil pour Red, Mc Coy ou encore Scott. Mais je trouve qu’au départ c’est parce qu’ils veulent faire le bien.

Pour Sup ça me semble juste gratuit sans aucun but.

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que ce soit justifié ou non c’est effectivement peut être différent d’un cas à l’autre mais au final cette dérive est beaucoup trop présente à mon goût

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Voici la couverture variante du premier numéro par Nick Dragotta:

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[quote]SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN #1
Written by MAX LANDIS
Art by NICK DRAGOTTA
Cover by RYAN SOOK
1:25 Variant cover by NICK DRAGOTTA
On sale NOVEMBER 11 • 32 pg, FC, 1 of 7, $3.99 US • RATED T+
Hollywood screenwriter and Eisner Award nominee Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) joins forces with top comics artists including Jock, Francis Manapul and Jae Lee to bring you SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN, a 7-issue miniseries chronicling the life of Clark Kent and his development into the archetypal hero he will eventually become. But these are not the stories of the iconic “Superman” as you know him, but of the soft-spoken, charming, often-funny Kansas farm-boy behind the Man of Steel. With the tone of each issue ranging from heartwarming and simple, to frighteningly gritty and violent, to sexy, sun-kissed and funny, SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN is unlike anything you’ve seen before.
In this first issue, superstar artist Nick Dragotta (East of West, Fantastic Four) illustrates the story of Jonathan and Martha Kent as they struggle to deal with their 12-year-old son’s latest quirk—he’s been floating up into the air, sometimes hundreds of feet![/quote]

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Lors d’une interview avec le site newsarama, le scénariste Max Landis a dévoilé les premières planches de Superman: Alien American illustrées par Nick Dragotta et Tommy Lee Edwards, ainsi qu’une première recherche de personnage par Jöelle Jones.

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[quote]In a big way, American Alien is about alienation. And it’s grounding the alienation we all feel, being a story about a guy who actually is an alien, although his awareness of and interaction with that is limited, due to the fact that all the other ones are dead.

The thing is, though, Vaneta, that each story is so different. Each story is so different from the next one. But we’re all colors on the palette of human emotion. You’ve dealt with situations like the ones in the comic that I wrote. You know? You may have never fought Parasite, but I didn’t write an issue of a comic about fighting Parasite. Superman fights Parasite in it, but ultimately, it’s about Clark Kent dealing with a bunch of unwanted attention.

I don’t write any « Superman » stories. I mean, arguably, the last comic — the last issue, #7 — probably features the most violent, realistic fight Superman has ever been in, but at no point in it do we feel like it’s bad-ass; it’s just violent and scary and we’re worried that our hero Clark is going to get badly injured.

Those are the kind of emotions I want to evoke, because as you say, Superman can be criticized as being, in previous iterations, fairly one-note. And I don’t think we need to do that. And DC has given me an opportunity to do something a little different. And I think it’s very brave of them, and I hope people read it. I don’t think it’ll piss people off.[/quote]

[size=150]INTERVIEW DU SCÉNARISTE MAX LANDIS[/size]

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[quote]I wanted to tap into making a young character that readers could identify with. Not doing a definitive look of Clark so much, but just doing a cute little kid, and try to draw eyes well so I can tap into that emotion.

…] Well, Max said that — there are seven issues in the American Alien series, and he wanted our first issue to be the most innocent of the bunch. And he would reference — you know, he’s from film — so he would refer to a lot of film references. And he wanted ours to feel Pixar-esque.[/quote]

[size=150]INTERVIEW DU DESSINATEUR NICK DRAGOTTA[/size]

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[quote]Superman: American Alien #1
Story by Max Landis
Art by Nick Dragotta
Colors by Alex Guimaraes
Letters by John Workman
Cover by Ryan Sook, Nick Dragotta, Alex Guimaraes
Publisher DC Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Nov 11th, 2015
Hollywood screenwriter and Eisner Award nominee Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) joins forces with top comics artists including Jock, Francis Manapul and Jae Lee to bring you SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN, a 7-issue miniseries chronicling the life of Clark Kent and his development into the archetypal hero he will eventually become. But these are not the stories of the iconic “Superman” as you know him, but of the soft-spoken, charming, often-funny Kansas farm-boy behind the Man of Steel. With the tone of each issue ranging from heartwarming and simple, to frighteningly gritty and violent, to sexy, sun-kissed and funny, SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN is unlike anything you’ve seen before.
In this first issue, superstar artist Nick Dragotta (East of West, Fantastic Four) illustrates the story of Jonathan and Martha Kent as they struggle to deal with their 12-year-old son’s latest quirk—he’s been floating up into the air, sometimes hundreds of feet![/quote]

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Source: www.comicbookresources.com

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[quote]Superman: American Alien #2

Story by
Max Landis
Art by
Tommy Lee Edwards
Cover by
Ryan Sook, Tommy Lee Edwards
Publisher
DC Comics

Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Dec 16th, 2015

After Smallville experiences its first violent crime in years, teenager Clark Kent is pressured by his best friend Pete Ross to take matters into his own hands in the second issue of SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN![/quote]

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[quote]Superman: American Alien #3

Written by: Max Landis
Art by: Joelle Jones
Cover by: Ryan Sook

When his plane crash-lands in the middle of the ocean, 21-year-old Clark Kent finds himself at a raging party on a massive yacht and is mistaken for the guest of honor: billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne!

U.S. Price:
3.99
On Sale Date:
Jan 13 2016[/quote]

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