Apparently, with this week’s release of Action Comics #900, “a blockbuster issue filled to the brim with guest talent from all corners of the world of Superman adaptations,” Superman will renounce his U.S. citizenship.

In the issue, Superman gets in some hot water with the president’s National Security Advisor for showing up in Tehran in support of Iranian protesters. Just showing up, non-violently. Since Superman is an American hero, Iran’s Government construes his actions as being with the tacit permission of the US Government. This desire to remain autonomous from whatever administration exists in Washington is what motivates the Man of Steel’s decision (panels above). Controversial comics stuff, treating superheroes like they exist in greater world full of regular human beings and their governments! … if you’re Superman in 2011 and not, to pick one example, The Authority in 1999.

Our sister site The Mary Sue has a nice analysis.

(via The Mary Sue. pic via Comics Alliance)

As you may have noticed, I am a Batman fan.

But here’s a dirty little secret: I also. Love. Watching Superman. Punch giant robots.

This video may engender the same love in you.

(Rob Pratt‘s Superman Classic is heavily influenced by the Fleischer Superman cartoons, and even uses music from the same, I think to great effect.)

(via Comics Alliance.)

Straight from Deadline itself: Henry Cavill, veteran of The Count of Monte Cristo, Showtime’s The Tudors, and Stardust has been tapped to play Superman in Zack Snyder‘s new reboot.

Says Deadline:

Warner Bros clearly has chosen a more macho leading man for Superman than the previous Brandon Routh.  Cavill also has a past with Superman. Before Bryan Singer came on to direct Superman Returns and cast Brandon Routh, Cavill had been one of the frontrunner choices for directers Brett Ratner and McG when they were going to helm the picture. That Superman was younger, and this time, the intention was to cast an actor near 30. Cavill will be 28 this year, so things worked out just right for him.

A little while ago, FarmVille was offering these costumes to its players, named, respectively SuperFarmvilleMan and SuperFarmvilleWoman. And now… it’s not.  Not only are they not available to purchase, they have been removed from the accounts of those who bought them in return for refunds.  And we know how Zynga feels about refunds.

The most likely reason for the yank?  Well… just look at them.

You may be seeing a lot of press about a new version of Superman these days, from a graphic novel called Superman: Earth One that comes out today. People have been throwing around adjectives with no regard for the safety of those around them, words like “cinematic,” or “staggering,” or “hipster.” You may be wondering how this new version of the Man of Steel will affect you and your loved ones.

Is he really a hipster? Does he still stand for Truth, Justice, and the American Way? Is he going to lobotomize me with his laser eyesohgod.

Allow us to explain.

Target‘s name is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy these days. Just to make sure that everyone has beef with them, the retailer has levied a snide, mocking blow at, of all people, moms who take the time to make charming homemade costumes for their kids instead of buying a cheap licensed knock off at some big box store.

We Quite Like The BBC, Too (yesthatmitch)

The Rapping, Dancing X-Men Cosplayers From NYCC (G4)

Sometimes Fictional Superheroes Save Real Lives (Reddit)

World Record for Reciting Hamlet’s Soliloquy While Using a Shake Weight (The Universal Record Database)

The New GoldenEye Game Has A Plot (GameInformer)

We Think This Miss Havisham Cake is In Excellent Taste, Actually (Hotham Street Ladies)

Chris Sims Explains How a Bit of Silver Age Crack Introduced Him to Comics (Comics Alliance)

(pic via Reddit.)

Maryland State Senator Nancy King is running for reelection on a platform of education reform, and her ill-thought out direct mailer is slightly confusing for a moment, and then, once its meaning is fully grasped, starts raising the blood pressure of anyone who has ever worked in or enjoyed the fruits of sequential art.

It implies, for the record, that if children don’t have teachers to educate them, they will start reading comic books.

The HORROR.

It was revealed yesterday in the New York Times, and now we’ve gotten the official word from The Source: Wonder Woman #600 releases today, with a new costume and a new backstory.

Well, it’s a new backstory in the same sense that Star Trek was a restart.  Literally.

Movie maestro Christopher Nolan, who in my book can never do any wrong, screened a double feature of Insomnia and The Dark Knight at the Hero Complex Film Festival in LA this past weekend. In between the two films, he was gracious enough to participate in a Q&A about his movies past, present, and future.

With all the buzz behind Inception, Batman 3, and the Superman reboot gaining traction–most recently the rumor about fan favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt being pegged as The Riddler–I’ll take whatever words from the man himself that I can get. After the jump, check out some of the interesting tidbits: