¡MARK MILLAR QUEDÓ TRAUMATIZADO POR MAN OF STEEL!

Explicando el por qué de Hutch, una serie sobre un "Clark Kent" superpoderoso que se esconde en "Smallville " haciendo buenas obras sin darse a conocer, el autor, que ha escrito algunas de las mejores historias de Superman, confesó que esta romántica aproximación está motivada por su trauma viendo al  Hombre de Acero ejecutar a su enemigo:

You see, I love cartoonish ultra-violence as much as the next Glaswegian (see this year's Kingsman: the Secret Service where Colin Firth takes down 100 fundamentalists in a Southern Baptist church), but at the same time I also feel we need a little balance.

In amongst all these very dark, angst-ridden and sometimes very serious superhero movies that have made Hollywood a lot of money over the last fifteen years I'm sensing a need for a little hope too, a little LESS super-cool bad-assery.

This really hit me hardest, I think, when I was watching Henry Cavill's turn as Superman in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel a couple of years back.

But Summer 2013 as I sat there on Father's Day and saw Superman beating the bad guy by twisting his neck so hard he broke it and murdered him I really wondered if we'd come to the end of that particular road.

Now I got the logic of that scene and it absolutely made sense within the context of the movie as the villain had taken down half of Metropolis and killed hundreds of thousands of people. But even so.

This was Superman. This was like seeing Sylvester the Cat finally getting his hands on Speedy Gonzales. Elmer Fudd blowing away Bugs Bunny.

I loved Superman as a kid not because of his edginess or his potential for a fatal solution, but because he could do anything he wanted and still chose to be nice. 

This was always the moral of a superhero comic to me.