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Geek Dad
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Dad
Review – Superman #26: Superman Red
Superman #26 cover, via DC Comics. Ray: After last issue's brutal battle with the deranged clone X-El, the status quo Josh Williamson has built is in shambles. Lex Luthor is back in prison, blamed for the attack and covering for Mercy. His trust with Superman is shattered after he executed the evil clone. Mercy is free, but has lost her alliance with Superman and her control over Supercorp. Lena Luthor is ready to wash her hands of both her father and her mentor, and has headed off to greener pastures – Midvale, where she'll be hanging out with Supergirl (much to the excitement of those who like another kind of Supercorp, no doubt). And Lois Lane has lost her Superwoman powers, burning them out after using her Solar Flare. But unlike with Superman, it seems to have purged the powers from her system entirely – and while she insists she's fine with going back to normal, no one else is so sure. And then there's General Zod in the cosmos, looking for answers. Time bomb. Via DC Comics. At least Superman is okay, right? Well, no – anything but. He's been acting erratically over the last few issues, and it seems the source is Red Kryptonite poisoning from back in the first arc of this series, when he went up against Pharm and Graft. The deranged brothers are now locked up in Strykers alongside Luthor. When Superman arrives at Stryker to confront Luthor, he's ready to end their partnership entirely, but Luthor proposes a deal to try to help Lois. This only makes Superman angrier – and that sends him spiraling out of control. This is a side of Superman we very rarely see, and it's an intriguing choice to make him essentially the main threat of this arc – enough to bring another mysterious hero in to stop him. This issue is chaotic, with a lot of plots coming in and out, but I think it delivers. Only one week after Dan Slott raised the bar for the Superman line yet again, Josh Williamson continues to prove the old guard is just as good. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dean Cain Credits Teri Hatcher for Carrying Their Iconic ‘Lois & Clark' Superman Series
Superman Dean Cain calls his costar Teri Hatcher 'the best Lois Lane of all time,' though he admits that while sometimes working together with her was 'the greatest thing in the world,' other times, it was 'a lot more difficult.' On a recent episode of the 'Inside of You' podcast, Cain, 58, who costarred with Hatcher, 60, on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997, looked back on the highs and lows of his first major acting role. Although rumors have long swirled that Hatcher was difficult to work with, Cain said the reality was more nuanced. 'Overall, it was amazing. Incredible. What a way to start a career, what a way to learn what doing a one-hour series is like,' said the actor, who played football at Princeton before turning to showbiz. 'There were times where we had great chemistry,' the former Ripley's Believe It or Not! host continued. 'There were times where it was just the easiest thing in the world.' Other times, 'I just wanted to finish and go home. I almost felt like she didn't. There were times where I felt like, 'I don't think she wants to go home because she's worried about this one little thing that has nothing to do with what we're doing. And that's slowing us down for two and a half hours.'' Despite their different viewpoints when it came to work, Cain admitted the Desperate Housewives star was the better actor who 'carried the show.' 'I just got to react off her. It worked wonderfully. It was a great pairing,' he said. 'She's an icon!' He revealed that while Hatcher didn't speak to him for a 'short' time, 'we didn't have a big [falling-out].' To this day, 'we're still very friendly,' he said.
News.com.au
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Huge 90s, noughties TV star stuns in rare red carpet outing at 60
One of the biggest TV stars of the 90s and noughties has made a surprise appearance on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. Teri Hatcher, 60, walked the red carpet for the premiere of historical romantic drama The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor. Hatcher looked incredible in a low-cut emerald gown, complete with a thigh-high split. Hatcher, once one of TV's most high-profile (and highly-paid) actresses, has kept more of a low profile in recent years, with just a handful of acting credits across the past five years. While she's been working as an actor for 40 years now, since landing her first on-screen role as a recurring character on The Love Boat, it wasn't until almost a decade into her career that Hatcher landed her first 'big break.' In 1993 she was cast as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, a huge hit thanks to her romantic chemistry with co-star Dean Cain. That show lasted for four seasons, but Hatcher's TV fame reached new levels in 2004 when she was cast in the smash hit soap opera Desperate Housewives. Hatcher played Susan Delfino across all eight seasons of the show, which was plagued by rumours of infighting amid its core cast. E! reported at the time the tension started after Hatcher won a Golden Globe in 2005. 'You could trace the tension back to then,' E! columnist Ted Casablanca said at the time. 'It was a huge coup for her. Teri was riding a wave that year, and she was sort of riding it on top of everybody else.' In early seasons, Hatcher's salary for the show was reported to be $US70,000 an episode – but by later years, she'd negotiated a salary of $US400,000 an episode. That $US9 million-a-season paycheque made her one of the highest paid actors on television. After the finale aired, and amid feverish speculation about a feud between the cast members, Hatcher said to TV Guide: 'I will never disclose the true and complicated journey of us all, but I wish everyone on the show well.' While Hatcher hasn't been seen on screen as much in recent years, she scoffed at a bizarre 2018 tabloid report that she was 'broke' and living out of a van. 'On the cover yesterday (Star magazine has) an article that says exactly that — it's totally absurd — that I am broke and homeless and living out of my van,' said Hatcher, who has an estimated net worth of $US50 million. 'It's categorically false. I am not broke. I have done very well investing my money. I am not homeless and I am not living out of my van.'
Geek Tyrant
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
James Gunn Clears Up Rick Flag Sr.'s Role in SUPERMAN, and It's Not What Fans Thought — GeekTyrant
Ever since the Superman trailer dropped, DC fans have been trying to figure out exactly what Frank Grillo's Rick Flag Sr. is doing in the new DCU, and specifically, what title he holds. Is he the Secretary of Defense? Is he running ARGUS? Or both? The confusion hit some fans during a moment in the trailer, Lois Lane says the Secretary of Defense will be keeping a close eye on Superman, and the next shot shows Grillo's Flag Sr. That led many to assume he was playing the Defense Secretary in the DCU. But then Peacemaker Season 2's teaser landed, and it revealed that Flag Sr. is now running ARGUS. So… which is it? Thankfully, James Gunn just stepped in to settle the debate. A fan asked Gunn on Threads: 'Is Rick Flag senior the secretary of defense or is that just the way the trailer is edited I thought he was running ARGUS now?' Gunn responded plainly: 'He's the head of ARGUS. But he works beside the Secretary of Defense General Mori.' So, Flag Sr. is in charge of ARGUS (Advanced Research Group Uniting Super-Humans), but works closely with top-level government officials like General Mori. Frank Grillo has already made his animated debut in the role with Creature Commandos, and this character is clearly being set up as a major connective thread in Gunn's new DCU. Back in November 2024, Grillo offered his own perspective on Flag Sr.'s place in the DCU, drawing comparisons to another familiar face from a different cinematic universe: 'I get a little bit of a Sam Jackson vibe. It's that kind of thing where he can swing through for a little bit, like in Superman, and have a critical, pivotal role, and then a bigger role, certainly, in Peacemaker, a very crucial role, and then is the leader of the team on Creature Commandos.' He added: 'So, yeah, I don't know what the future holds, but I think Rick Flag is kind of the head of ARGUS, like the MCU with Jackson. I mean, you never know. It's kind of endless.' Flag Sr. is clearly here to stay, and it sounds like he'll be showing up exactly where Gunn and the DCU stories need to be.
The Guardian
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
James Gunn's new Superman is more human than alien god – but can he still inspire awe?
In the 1960s, Marvel comics made its name by dragging superheroes down to street level. Peter Parker worried about his homework. The Fantastic Four bickered like flatmates. Even the Hulk, a walking nuclear tantrum, was really just a green and muscular guy having a bad day. Over at DC, though, the heroes remained clean, polished and largely unbothered – moral titans gazing down from above, solving problems without ever really having any of their own. Superman was the prototype of that ideal: an all-powerful alien whose only weakness was a glowing space rock and an unshakable sense of duty. He wasn't like us – he was better than us. And that was the point. When Margot Kidder's Lois Lane first meets the man of steel in 1978's Superman, she is almost impossibly awestruck by the presence of this walking, talking, flying god. Lois's wide-eyed vulnerability is a stark contrast with the condescension she doles out to his alter ego, Clark Kent. The two sides of the Last Son of Krypton might be exactly the same person, but it's virtually impossible for anyone to recognise them as such, because one radiates impossible power while the other can barely hold on to his briefcase. For those of us brought up on the 1978 version of Superman, the sight of him squirming in the face of a mildly probing interview by Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) in the first full trailer for James Gunn's Superman is like watching a Greek god forget his lines in a school play. Rather than a morally upright, granite-jawed colossus watching over us like Jesus in a cape, this new David Corenswet-essayed take on Kal-El is one who is less a saviour from the stars than a disbelieving schoolboy who can't quite understand how he's getting aggravation for rescuing a cat up a tree. Zack Snyder briefly gave us a glimpse of a Superman who is not always the world's favourite superhero in Man of Steel in 2013, but by the time we got to 2016's execrable Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, all those intriguing undertones about divine power and human frailty had dissipated. The fact that Gunn is picking this concept up and running with it tells us that he clearly wants to bring us a Superman who inspires awe once again; though there will be no return to Christopher Reeve's effortlessly noble, flawlessly statuesque Man of Steel. This time around, it's less about the idea of Superman as an extra-terrestrial trying to work out how to be human, and more about Kal-El as a guy who is just as human as the rest of us – but just happens to come from outer space. Might the bad guys of Gunn's film – Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor and Angela Spica's Engineer – help Superman find his place in the moral architecture, by showing him why rules matter? In the comics, the Engineer is a member of the Authority – an antihero crew parachuted into DC from the WildStorm imprint in the late 1990s. This morally ambiguous squad of powerhouses believe the world is too broken for compassion, and too far gone for the sense of truth, justice and the American way espoused by the Man of Steel. Where Superman sees hope, they see a target. Where he wants to protect, they want to improve – violently, if necessary. It's not yet clear if other members of The Authority – trenchcoated brute Midnighter or the unhinged, solar-powered demigod that is Apollo – will appear in Gunn's Superman. But the arrival on screen of these most morally unhinged saviours might be just what our boy needs to see the light. Could such ethical tension – a fundamental clash between idealism and pragmatism – be the emotional backbone not just of this film, but of Gunn's new DCU at large? Either way, it's clear that DC's big cheese is less interested in the Superman who flies above us and more the one who stumbles among us. This new Man of Steel is primed and ready to save the world … even if he's starting to suspect that being human might just be the hardest part of the whole gig.
