Whatever happened to the Man of Steel ?

After the NEW 52 there have not been a lot of positive posts about new Superman comics but that may improve depending on how the current run by Brian Michael Bendis works out. So I wanted to use the opportunity to write more about The Man Of Tomorrow on the respective birthdays of Jackson " Butch " Guice ( 58 ) and Dan Jurgens ( 60 ) on the 27th of June.

Now they have both worked on a lot of different comic books but since they were both part of the creative teams during the latter part of John Byrne´s post - Crisis Superman revamp they had to share a post in 2016.

Another topic I have neglected way too long for a blog called TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN is the post - Crisis relaunch of the Man of Tomorrow by John Byrne and I had hoped to rectify that situation on April the 26th which was Kerry Gamill´s 65th birthday. Especially since I finally bought the Superman - The Exile and other stories omnibus hardcover that continues with the reprints where the Man Of Steel trade paperback series left off.

I know that Kerry Gamill did a lot of work for Marvel Comics - and you can see some of that work like his brilliant issues of Powerman & Iron Fist in my very first Kerry Gamill birthday post that I wrote last year - but for me he is eternally linked to the new Superman continuum. Looking back from a time where nobody seems to get - or care - what Superman is all about it was like the golden times of Superman history for me. Because it was the time when I got fully immersed in the US comics as every new issue and series seemed to be part of a giant story - which in fact it was. The whole shebang kicked off with John Byrne´s Man of Steel mini series followed by Superman and Action Comics by John Byrne and Adventures of Superman by Marv Wolfman and Jerry Ordway. Then John Byrne left but you had guys like Dan Jurgens and Ron Frenz picking up the slack so in the The Exile omnibus ( which picks up in this interim period of art team changes ) you have a literally Who´s Who of the best comic artists DC had access to with the legendary Curt Swan, George Perez, Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Mike Mignola, P. Craig Russell, Brett Breeding and last but not least Kerry Gamill.

Coming back to Butch Guice and Dan Jurgens, it wasn´t all a bed of roses because there also was the infamous THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN story ( which might be the subject of an upcoming post in my DEATH IN COMICS series ) that led to the big speculator boom and subsequentially the comic book crash of the 90s. One of the biggest problems of this whole shebang was that while a lot of people knew of the death of Superman not that many got wind of his return and thought he had just died and they had stopped doing Superman comics. Another case where the marketing guys were caught sleeping on the job. Anyway, THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN was followed by WORLD WITHOUT A SUPERMAN ( which was basically everybody being depressed because Superman was dead ) and THE REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN which introduced not one, not two, not three but four new Supermen, among them the best one - Cyborg Superman. I mean, how can you make somebody like Superman even better ? Turn him into a cyborg.

And this works with almost every superhero - except Cyborg. Obviously. In any case, what a lot of people didn´t realize is that Cyborg Superman was actually a character who had appeared in the series before and whose origin story was based on a superhero from DC´s direct competition .

Another fallout of this whole thing was hippie Superman. Yep, somebody thought it was a good idea to give Superman long hair. Which made sense when he first came back ( those who have read the story know what I mean ) but looked ridiculous later on. So what a lot of people remember from that era of Superman´s history is lots of crossovers and tie - ins, Superman needing a haircut and a lot of gimmick covers. Oh, so many. 

Despite the bad reputation this period of the Superman comicbooks have I would really like to delve into this particular storyline again and the only reason why I haven´t done this so far is that the omnibus is still a bit too expensive for me. At 90 bucks ( amazon price ) it is way beyond what I can afford even though the regular price that you pay in stores or online is 140 EUROS. Which seems like a lot but you have to keep in mind that this is the third edition ( which may have something to do with the new DEATH OF SUPERMAN / REIGN OF THE SUPERMAN animated feature films ) and the page count has been upped from 784 pages to 1124 pages and now to a mind blowing 1408 pages. So with my birthday coming up who knows ?

I always get such uninspired presents that I may spring for this after all. It is still an entertaining story with incredible art for the most part and it was an entry point into the world of Superman for a lot of people. And one of the reasons why it led to the comicbook crash was that it held so many people´s imagination and it just kept on growing bigger and bigger.

I think the whole crux of it´s phenomenal success was that it not only killed off the main character ( which happened to Superman in countless issues throughout his entire history even if in most cases he returned to the living at the end of the story ) but there already was a plan - a very big plan - about what was going to happen next. There is also the story above the story which poses the question : what makes up Superman ?

Is it his powers, his looks, his attitude ? In the end you can have four guys who are all like him in a way and there still is only one definite Superman.

Yes, it was totally a 90s comicbook but one of the reasons why I still like it is that it was so unapologetic over the top as only comics from that period are. And like I said, Cyborg Superman. What more reasons do you need ?

And on that note it´s time to wrap things up since this was just supposed to be a short post to outsource some of the celebrity birthdays from the main post. Speaking of which, you can find more birthdays for June the 26th and 27th in this post while we make a big jump to July the 6th, the 69th anniversary of the premiere architect of the post - Crisis Superman .

Which solved a lot of old problems but also created some new ones especially for fans of the LEGION OF SUPER - HEROES because in the post - Crisis DC universe there has never been a Superboy or Supergirl and as all DC Comics from my generation know it was the example of Superboy that led to the foundation of the famous super hero team from the future.

Man, I really expected the part about Butch Guice and Dan Jurgens to be much shorter so I could get into more detail about John Byrne´s Superman but things didn´t work out as planned so we continue with John Byrne in our next installment . Which is all about his UNCANNY X - MEN run with Chris Claremont in general, The Dark Phoenix Saga in particular and Ed Piskor´s X - Men : Grand Design and how it helps Disney to rewrite history.

But this is a DC Comics centric spin - off post so as part of this year´s John Byrne tribute here is a video about the post - Crisis Superman relaunch.



One of the reason why I wanted to include John Byrne in this post - even though much shorter than planned - are the other celebrity birthdays for the 6th of June which include action movie legend Sylvester Stallone who turns 73. Besides the successful movie series of Rocky and Rambo he also starred in Tango & Cash where Teri Hatcher played erotic dancer Kiki . I would say " stripper " but a striptease implies taking off more clothes.

Which a then still very young Teri Hatcher did in The Cool Surface . By the way if you name your daughter Kiki you have already predestined her for a life on the pole. For which sex kitten Teri Hatcher definitely had the body.

She played the BEST Lois Lane on tv so far and was the first actress who made it believable that Superman would choose her over the ultimate sex bombs in the Justice League of America like Big Barda or Wonder Woman.

She also was in Desperate Housewives where Teri proved she still looked racktastic . And who could ever forget the " I´m not a stripper ! " scene ?

Check out my last post on cult siren Teri Hatcher to read more about her comic book connections like her appearance in Tales From The Crypt or Tango & Cash where she showed her porn star body and her dancing skills.

On a more comic related note is Burt Ward´s 74th birthday and I probably don´t have to mention that he was Robin on the campy 70s Batman show.



Which was actually pretty close to the comicbooks that were published at that time because Denny O´Neil and Neal Adams whole back to the roots approach with the grim and gritty Dark Night Detective came afterwards.



I haven´t seen much of the tv series because the DVD sets are always too expensive but maybe I can get them at some sale. And if it´s only to check out Batgirl Yvonne Craig. No wonder they couldn´t get a Batgirl in the comics fast enough after feasting their peepers on Yvonne´s curves.

Here´s the lovely Yvonne working on her tan in a clip from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. And before you go through your DVD collection this is from ONE SPY TOO MANY, a feature film version of the tv show that combined both The Alexander the Greater Affair episodes. The subplot and footage with Yvonne Craig was just shot for the film and did NOT appear on television.

You can also see the full clip - as well as many more with Yvonne Craig on such shows like STAR TREK or MY FAVORITE MARTIAN - on this website .



There are more celebrity birthdays for July the 6th in the second part and newer readers might want to check out this post for more anniversaries from that day up until July the 12th. Sometimes I really can´t see the forest for the trees and if you have seen the first drafts of this post you know that the following part was completely different. That´s because I totally forgot the Superlopez movie which not only fits this post like a glove but also my pet peeve of promoting comicbook adaptions that are overlooked by the general public. Well, in this case it´s the people outside of Spain because I am certain it was a big hit there like the Mortadelo & Filemon movies, the Zipy & Zape movies or Anacleto, Agente Secreto.

For those that never heard of Superlopez, he is the spanish version of Superman and I might have mentioned him before because the german Condor Verlag published his adventures under the name of Super Meier ( since Meier is a very common name in Germany like Lopez in Spain ). I always planned to write a big, extensive post on that series since it is super hilarious but since I never got around to do it here are the links that would have gone into said post. First up is the british site INTERNATIONAL HERO which is the only one where I could find an entry on Superlopez in english while my german readers have to rely on his wikipedia entry .

As it couldn´t be any other way the aptly named website DAILY PLANET has a post on Superlopez, there´s an article about Superlopez : Superman made in Spain on SUPERMAN JAVI OLIVARES and you can find the reading order of the issues on EN TODO EL COCODRILLO and an interview with Jan, the writer / artist of Superlopez by Raul Lopez on ZONA NEGATIVA . Anyway, here is the trailer for the movie and at first I had my doubts if you could bring this comicbook to life but Dani Rovira really pulls it off.



There doesn´t seem to be a cartoon but here is a fan made short. Man, these fan films really kick the @$$ of the " professional " movie studios.



I also want to use this opportunity to post more of my newest dream girl, Normani, who simply blew me away when I first saw her. She is just oozing sex appeal and she can make guys hard just by breathing. Which is why the afro - american aphrodite instantly secured herself a spot in my top five sex phantasies and I had to give Normani her own cult siren entry .

From what I have seen online Normani has an incredible body that won´t quit and her milkshakes can go toe - to - toe with Janet´s perfect orbs.

On top of that she also has incredible dance moves and does the splits like a natural born stripper ( I might have to give Normani an even higher pole position in my ranking based alone on that move since I´m not sure if even Janet " the best body in showbiz " Jackson can spread her legs like that ) so I first thought that she earned her living sliding down the pole.

With her incredible 36D ( OMG ! What a Busenwunder ! And it´s all natural ! I call first dibs on this ! ) - 24 - 37 ( Daimn ! Dat Booty ! ) measurements it´s no wonder that she is not only a songwriter and singer but a dancer.

And while Normani doesn´t make her money working the stripper pole like I erroneously first thought she definitely has the flexibility for it thanks to her gymnastics training at a young age and also the perfect body. There are black women ( and I don´t mean afro - american women because I am not only talking about american women of african heritage ) who have a big butt that sticks out ( no pun intended ) from the rest of the body but Normani is the perfect blend of big juicy breasts, long muscular legs almost up to her chin and a chiseled fit torso with an incredible tight bubblebutt.

Anyway, here is bootylicious blow up sex doll Normani putting Beyonce to shame with her fant - ASS - tic performance of the Destiny´s Child song that put that word in the global dictionary on the second episode of season four of Lip Sync Battle which stars all the girls from Fifth Harmony.



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The unexpected Halle Berry bonus round

You might think that I would do something else since at this point I must be all Halle Berry - ed out but even after doing three posts there are still so many good pictures of Halle Berry that didn´t make it into the posts.

At first I just wanted to post the pictures but after going over the posts from my old boob blog ( which were really a lot although they were mostly pictures ) I decided to reuse some of the things I had written about Halle Berry back then. Yes, I´m only recycling my old stuff but like I said, this is already my fourth Halle Berry post so I hope my readers give me some leeway. And if you have to copy something at least steal from the best.

Maybe I got a bit carried away which tends to happen with these cult siren posts. Aside from Janet Jackson Halle Berry has always been one of my biggest sexual fantasies and thanks to the wonders of motherhood she even surpassed Janet - in the breast size department she eclipsed her.

Halle practically doubled her breast size overnight and it was weird to look at old pictures of her because she looked kind of skinny all of a sudden.

Halle was already one of the ultimate sexbombs on the planet but just when you thought she couldn´t look any finer or her breasts couldn´t get any bigger they grow to a whopping mouthwatering 36DDD size and Halle proved that sometimes you really can't get too much of a good thing.

You just know she can turn boys to men ( and turn grown men into drooling boys ) with her incredible pornstar body. That´s one of the reasons why I don´t post fakes of her : the real thing is just better !

Her boobs are still pretty big although not as huge as when she was pregnant. Boy, did she have giant hooters at that time. She´s still very hot and I bet the best part of her presenting an award ( at least for the lucky guys ) is that the winner gets kissed by her. Now that feels like winning.

I bet the guys wish they could take Halle back home instead of the award and fondle her golden globes. And we all got theses fantasies about Halle.

CATWOMAN was a fiasko but not because of Halle Berry or her Catwoman costume which was better than the one in the comic. It let Halle show she is the breast at what she does. And what she does is pretty horny.

If the movie had been for an older audience and with some nude scenes ( like the famous topless scene from SWORDFISH or her performance in MONSTER´S BALL ) I´m sure it would have been a box office success.

Anyway, that is all I can come up with now and maybe next year I will just post some new Halle Berry pictures instead of re - posting her old posts.

Now I could have done this post Tomorrow ( aw, who am I kidding ? I could not have slept if I hadn´t done this post Today ) but the benefit of doing it Today is that because I have already covered all the celebrity birthdays and anything else that might play into these posts at this point I get to cherry pick the content of the video section which means I can include those videos that always fall between the cracks and are left over after finishing the posts but which are funny, sexy or entertaining nonetheless.

One video I tried in vain to include in the entertainment supplement of my posts is Kate Upton´s bonerific performance of Britney Spears smash hit " Hit Me Baby One More Time " on the 13th episode of the third season of Lip Sync Battle . I wanted to save this for a Kate Upton birthday post but that never happened so I wanted to include it in other posts but either it didn´t fit the topic of the post or it was too raunchy and when I finally did a post where I could have added it there were already too many animated GIFs and it would have destroyed the post. But since this post is mainly pictures I can include at least part of it and there are still enough animated GIFs left if I ever get to do my big Kate Upton birthday post.

Now this episode is a good example of one of the major flaws of the show : they just can´t give props to such stunning sexbombs like Kate Upton.

Whenever there is an incredibly hot babe on the show doing an über sexy performance all the guys are too afraid of the SJW backlash when they admit to getting a boner from an absolutely normal thing - watching an attractive woman dance in a seductive way - that they don´t vote for her.

And instead of the hot babe who really put all her sweat, blood and tears into that performance ( some of them even admitted that they went way out of their comfort zone with their oversexed performances ) the fat guy who does a funny number wins or the muscular guy who dressed up in women´s clothing. For which I still have a complete lack of understanding.

What is so funny about a guy wearing women´s clothes ? I don´t get it.

In any case, here is the video and I wonder if there will be more sexy women like Kate Upton on future episodes of the show and if they will do other sexy performances knowing full well that in Today´s society which punishes women for being beautiful the deck is stacked against them ?



Now it has been a while since I posted a video from Teens React because it always takes so darn long to make the animated GIFs ( it only took me two days to make the ones for this post but that was mainly because I really poured on the speed ) but now I just had to give my readers an update since this may be the best video with nubian sexbomb Jair.

Bonus points go to Mikaela and especially Anne who brings that asian sexsation. The video may even better than this one where Jair has an ample cleavage and is leaning over giving us a good view of her boobs.

Man, it´s about time that they have Jair do a wet t - shirt car wash or at least a micro bikini / string tanga striptease / lapdance preferably with another hot react sexbomb like Brooklyn, Jayka, Rae, Becca or Sidney.

They could make it a punishment for losing one of these challenges and regular readers may remember that I called " Foul ! " on the constant dog food eating punishment. I mean really, react audience ? There are so many hot react babes at your disposal and the best you can come up with is " They should eat a can of dog food. " There are many better uses for those absolutely stunning girls that immediately come to mind and on spanish game show for example it has become a staple that female contestants are drenched in water or wear a wet t - shirt, which could be adapted here.

So I had a few ideas what Jair could do if she looses a challenge and the number five idea was that she has to wear a sexy outfit like Janet " the best body in showbiz " Jackson in Jermaine Dupri´s mega raunchy music video Gotta Getcha where Janet plays a extremely busty stripper dressed up as a school girl / teacher which was so hot it never aired in Germany.

It´s what I call casting at it´s best because Janet Jackson was just born for that role. Not only is she predestined to play a stripper because of her incredibly fit and flexible pornstar hardbody which could have earned her a fortune as a big super star in the adult entertainment industry she has some incredible stripper moves that make real striptease pros envious.

Okay, I don´t know if the script said explicitly " busty stripper " but with her huge melons it´s the only kind of stripper Janet can believably portray.

I always knew that Janet was a sex freak ( Janet admitted to joining the Mile High Club and is a well known size queen ) and although the rumors that Bobby Brown banged her in the 80s might not be true it is much more believable that she used Justin Timberlake as her sextoy and dumped him after a month of steamy sex marathons . According to Justin it took Janet an hour to get in my pants after we first hooked up and she was so wild in bed that I didn´t know how to handle it. I was falling in love with Miss Jackson but during our get - togethers she only wanted to have sex.

Some months ago I found a Making Of from that video and I have to say I´m not sure how I feel about the fact that originally Janet was supposed to play a nymphomanic dominatrix but they skipped that because it would hit too close to home according to Janet herself. Say what ? So Janet is a nymphomanic dominatrix in the privacy of her own bedroom ? Daiiiiimn !

I don´t think of myself as sexy but I am a very sexual being, I always have sex on my mind. I feel very comfortable with it and I think it´s great if a guy has a good sized package. I know the effect my body has on guys so I sometimes use it to get especially well hung guys into my bedroom where I tie them to the bed and bang their brains out in a marathon sex orgy. I go completely crazy and make them squirt again and again until they are completely drained. I regret doing it but I´ll turn around and do it again.

My number four punishment idea was to have Jair re - enact Halle Berry´s bonerriffic striptease scene from Last Boy Scout with the only difference being that Jair would´ve to continue until she had taken everything off. 

Or at least as much as possible. Sadly she´s still underage so while her doing something like Halle Berry´s topless scene in Password : Swordfish may be possible I think it´s safe to say that we won´t get her to play the sex scene from Monster´s Ball even if she already has the body for it.

Continuing my third idea for a good challenge would have been to have Jair wear a very revealing micro bikini which would automatically lead to a Try Not To Get A Boner competition among all the male reactors present.

Another idea I had was to make Jair wear a tiny bikini or at least an otherwise revealing outfit while eating a banana or ice cream cone as seductively as possible sitting next to a guy who has a crush on her.

And my number one idea was of course to get Jair to do a wet t - shirt challenge and if she fails or refuses Jair would have to participate in a wet t - shirt competition as her punishment. So either way she would have to don a wet t - shirt and it would be a win / win situation for all involved.

But while I was working on the new animated GIFs of Jair I thought : " If the react viewers absolutely prefer to see Jair eat dog food instead of taking off her clothes why not give them what they want ? " But not only do it - do it right, man. First of all we had to pick the right outfit for Jair.

Part of the outfit would be a dog collar and naturally Jair would object to wearing a leash but that´s nothing that couldn´t be solved with a few weeks of taming to make her obedient ( I would volunteer for this ! ).

Then after I had broken her in enough she would have to get down on her hands and knees and the dog food would be in a food bowl on the floor.

So Jair would have to get on all four with her big boobs hanging out to eat it and I would make her work for it. I mean it is meant as a punishment.

Now I know that people don´t always watch the videos I include in this section so the number of visitors who check out the Teens React videos which I only link to is even lower but there are just too many to do them all properly. At this point I want to include two with Jair where I did not make any animated GIFs :  in this one she is wearing a white shirt without cleavage though Marlhy delivers plentyful on that front and in this video Jair has a nice cleavage and really stretches out her thin shirt but sadly because it´s a gaming video you only get her in a very small frame.

Daim, Jair really has a lot of bouncing action in this video and her giant jair - bags are sure to cause a lot of jair - ections among react viewers. You know that a girl has big boobs if she needs an extra bra for support. Her milkshakes - or better chocolate shakes - bring all the boys to the yard.

 
Since I mentioned that asian persuasion earlier make sure to check out Rae in this video about optical illusions and another must see video is this Just Dance video where she is paired with hasian teen Jayka. Daimn !!!

Can you imagine what would happen if Jayka and Rae had a sleepover ?

That´s one couple of blow up sex dolls you want to spend your summer vacation with. Just think of the all night asian ejaculation marathon !

I have also not made an animated GIF for this Just Dance video since that is too much work but definitely check it out for Mikaela and Brookyn ( daimn, it´s a shame we don´t get to see that booty in the regular videos ). Speaking of Brooklyn I wanted to make a GIF from this video because not only does she wear a shirt with a lot of cleavage in it, she also leans over and shows some impressive blowjob skills. I guess it´s true that once you had black you never go back because check out Kaelyn´s new videos .



In one of the courses I did for the jobcenter we had to write a letter to our future self which was an interesting experience. Longtime readers might recall something along those lines because I wrote a post on it . I wonder if I had a conversation with my 12 year old self how much this world with SJWs, facebook and all the weird stuff would make sense.



The question remains how much the world really has changed. Sometimes - no make that very often - I have the feeling that we are devolving as a species especially when you examine what you could get away with in comics back in the Golden Age compared to what is unacceptable now.



This is another video I wanted to post for the longest time because it looks awesome but somehow it just never fit the topic of my posts.



We are closing things out with something that is better than anything you will currently see in movie theaters - Marvel or DC - and I hope you had a nice Halle Berry - ful day. If you have read along the entire day I have to applaud you since I wrote these posts over a couple of days. I hope you had some fun and were at least a bit entertained and maybe you want to pop some Halle Berry movie into the electronic device of your choice.



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