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If the Ubermensch symbolized the Nazi ideals, America’s answer was the immigrant Jewish-forged Superman symbolizing the American ideal. And Superboy as the vital youthful version, the distilled essence of the best of American values. And as this youthful version looks to the future, we get the Legion of Super-Heroes, projections of the hopes and dreams of a 1960s America.
America, the cutting edge of Western civilization, meets the future. America, the cutting edge of Western civilization, meets the future – a future more macro – disproportionately entangled in space travel – but less micro – underestimating the microchip revolution.
The ultimate, original futuristic superhero team touches all the right buttons – science fiction, comics, and variety. Hopefully, someday we will see the LSH get the same cinematic treatment as Guardians of the Galaxy. The reservoir is so deep. A multicultural team that works together to save the universe deserves to be ubiquitous in modern culture. And with the success of a film franchise, an ongoing monthly series that will endure through the ages and outlast its current greying readership.
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