"I'm just a man/In a silly red sheet..." A super-man knitted together from the dreams and craft of an American and a Canadian from my hometown, both. He's not my favourite superhero as a comics fan, but he's definitely my vote for one hell of an excellent human being. And I think that says a lot, seeing as how he didn't start out here on Earth. :)

-2Paw.

Did you ever read Superman For All Seasons? Thank hat and how he was played in his own DCAU”’animated series cemented the character for me. You nailed it in that he is a good person at the core.

I don't know if I did, Scott, I'm sorry to say. I'm thinking if I can find it at Red Nails II (the comic shop I frequent here in Toronto), I may indulge if I can find it. :) I know what it was that set Superman in steel for me, anyway, in what bits and pieces I've read of his modern (1980s-forward) adventures: the origin of The Man Of Steel (specifically, the Superman who would end up becoming Steel, the rather large fellow named John Henry Irons in the powered-armour he built and the gigantic ballpeen hammer) set shortly before Superman stopped Doomsday at the cost of his own life. I always found Steel was the Superman who really embodied what Superman was, compared to the three others who we found out years later were none at all kind, worthwhile or particularly excellent people; wasted mantles conferred from Superman's behest, except for Steel, really.

And aptly so. Irons' life gained renewed purpose when Superman saved him from certain death in the collapse of the building he was a steelworker on, several months prior to the whole Doomsday business and Superman's own death, and tell me this isn't the origin of an excellent hero: John turns to Superman just before they reach the ground, saying 'Thank you for saving my life.' John knew Superman had heard such things more than a few times, but he honestly felt that thanks because he had spent the last ten years of his life- after being fired to hush up his potential of going to the press about his weapons' designs unbeknownst to him, were being sold to multiple street gangs in Metropolis in finished form- not really thinking for some time that he had much worth at all as a human being, as he related. Superman turned to him, recognizing a look of both relief and renewed hope on John's face, and reached out his hand to shake John's, who met him fully, and Superman said, smiling: "Then make it count for something." When John was buried in the wreckage of a second building he was working on, collapsed by Doomsday's rampage, he found that renewed purpose brought him back to life: and he knew, then, what to do.

Steel I always felt got the short shrift when it came to any Superman-related hero I can think of, even when his tale expanded out into his own ongoing series, but if I was going to pick a Superman to be that wasn't Clark Kert, it'd be him. :)

-2Paw.

Very nice! Always a fan of comics!Superman.

Thank you.

The Big Blue Boy Scout.

Yup. Interestingly my (late) father’s favorite comic growing up.

I hope you're doing okay, recouperating okay.

Doing w lol, and working to get stronger every day.

Face is more like Captain Marvel. Not that I have any problem with that - I love the Big Red Cheese!

I guess it’s my animation roots, because the face is the minimalist version skins from the 1940s Fleischer Brothers “Superman” cartoons. The models sheets from that are fascinating examples of minimalist, realistically ccdesign. Sort of AlexToth before Alex Toth.

Example, but I see where the confusion is.

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So out of all the hundreds of superheroes out there, he picked the most vanilla one imaginable :p But it was nice of you to fulfill his request!

Well, the top three picks probably would have been Batman, Spiderman, Superman, or Wonder Woman. Got lucky, because I didn't have a lot of refeence available there.

aw, Batman's dead simple! Half the time he's got his cape closed around him so basically all you would have had to draw is a cloaked silhouette :v

True! and make it all moody and everything. I will have to draw Batman.