2008 Merchandise & Miscellaneous News Archives

April Fools Day!

April 1, 2008: Superman Homepage Pranks for April Fools Day 2008

If you didn't visit the site between midnight and midday April 1st, then you missed out on the four April Fools Day pranks we played on our unsuspecting readership.

Click "Read More" below to see what they were...

Here they are below...

New Design

April 1, 2008: DC Comics Unveils New Look for Superman

With 2008 being Superman's 70th anniversary, DC Comics have announced a new look for the Man of Steel moving forward.

"We felt that it was time for a change. Time for a new look for Superman. He's basically remained the same for 70 years, and we thought it was time to shake things up a bit", said Dan Didio.

Dee Kay, up-coming character designer, was commissioned to create Kal-El's new look for his 70th year and beyond. Kay created dozens of different looks, with the powers that be at DC selecting the image shown here.

"The underpants on the outside is so yesterday! We had to get rid of them once and for all," said Matt Idelson, editor on the Superman comics. "We also wanted to incorporate black into the costume's design, to reflect the darker and grittier personality we'll be giving Superman from now on."

As for how Superman fans would react to the new permanent change, "Frankly I don't really care," replied DC's Paul Levitz. "The fans will just have to accept what we give them."

Click "Read More" below to see more images of the new Superman costume.

Thanks to Dee Kay for allowing us to use one of his illustrations.



Spider-man and Superman

April 1, 2008: Siegels to Publish Superman Comics with Marvel

With the Federal Court ruling giving Jerry Siegel's family joint copyright ownership of Superman last week, the family wasted no time getting their own plans into place, signing a multi-million dollar agreement with Marvel Comics to publish their own "Superman" comic book series scheduled to debut later this year.

Based on the Golden Age Superman seen within the pages of "Action Comics #1" from 1938, the Siegel's Superman will be able to leap an eighth of a mile, raise tremendous weights, run faster than a streamline train, and nothing less than a bursting shell will penetrate his skin.

Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, said, "This is very exciting for us. We'll be wasting no time bringing Superman into the Marvel universe."

With no writer or artists yet announced, Quesada has already decided that Clark Kent should join Peter Parker at the Daily Bugle, with the two likely to team up as a reporter and photographer team, without either knowing that the other has a superhero alter-ego.

Click "Read More" below to read the official press release sent out by Marvel Comics.



WB Animation

April 1, 2008: Kids' WB Announce “Superman Beyond” Anime Cartoon

We've seen Superman and Supergirl fight side-by-side on "Superman: The Animated Series", "Justice League", and "Justice League Unlimited". Young Superman battled alongside his 41st Century descendant and a "Legion of Super-Heroes" on the CW. Now, beginning this Fall, on the all new Kids CW!, get to know an all-new legend: "Superman Beyond", a hero for the Anime generation. It's Metropolis in the year 2338. Superman vanished several hundred years ago. Since then, Metropolis has been a world without heroes. It's a dark world corrupt at all levels from the street gang, the skin-headed Luthorz, all the way up to the ineffectual Mayor Olsen.

In this world lives Christopher Kent. Young Christopher Kent has a hard time fitting in. He doesn't get along at school. He fights with his teachers and has a hard time making friends. Then one day he finds a green crystal that tells him of the long-lost legacy of his ancestor, Superman. Christopher learns his family has prevented his own powers from developing by putting a blue Kryptonite jewel in his eyeglasses. Now, all Chris Kent needs to do is remove his glasses and he has powers similar to the great Superman. But it's a different world and Chris Kent is no meek and mild-mannered Clark Kent. This Superman wears black and wears special goggles that enhance his vision powers. Chris Kent can't fly but he can leap tall buildings. Too bad he can't leap through the rest of high school. Don't miss the all-new "Superman Beyond", a hero for the Anime generation, debuting this Fall on the all-new Kids CW!

The Superman Homepage has learned that Clark Kent will appear on the show but as a computer hologram kind of like the crystals the spirit of Superman's father Jor-El used to communicate with Superman.

Click "Read More" below to view early character designs for "Superman Beyond".



Metropolis

April 1, 2008: “Metropolis” to Debut on the CW in Fall 2008

The Superman Homepage has obtained some exciting exclusive information from "Smallville" series creator Al Gough with regards to the future of the series...

Given the departure of Lana Lang from the main body of the story, and with Michael Rosenbaum now signed for a six episode engagement next year, the show will now move to Metropolis and focus, for one last year, on the ongoing exploits of Tom Welling as Superman!

Tentatively subtitled "Metropolis," next year the storyline will jump three years into the future, whereby Clark, following events in the finale, will adopt his namesake and take to the skies!

Don't expect any Supergirl action, however. Gough claims, "Though we have a place for Kara, it won't be in the skies. It'll be a kind of reversal of sorts with Clark. Stay tuned!"

Click "Read More" below to see what Tom Welling had to say about this exciting news.



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