King, you trully are the most stupid man I've ever met.

You actually belive that this character is defined by his outfit and not his background.

You're actually trying to convince people that the best possible interpretation of Superman is one that ignores his humanity in favor of his alieness.

See, there is a balance between the two, but it's not what you're asking for. The 'caught between human nurture and alien origin' angle you're asking for DOES NOT WORK.

Here you have a character that up till his mid teens was raised to think of himself as a human (go out with girls, drink milkshakes, learn to drive cars, watch movies, maybe even collect stamps or other mundane collectible you can think of), in other words, an average human being.

You want that personality to disapear the second he finds out he's an alien. You want the characters world to shatter around him and for him to suddenly develop a personality trait that serves no purpose.

You want him to question where he belongs, you want him to separate himself from humanity in a Fortress.

Furthermore, you want the alien name and super hero costume to literary replace the human character, which is the real personality!

You can keep trying to make this about Byrne and Jurgens if you like, that's still not the case.

You can still keep claiming that the past interpretations are the best ones and the only ones that matter, that's still not true.

The past interpretations that ignored the facts of the character got it wrong.

The past interpretations that say that Superman is the real face and Woody Allenesque Clark Kent is the mask got it wrong.

Clark Kent is the one that found out that he's an alien, not the other way around. Superman is not an alien that has to pretend to be human, he's a human with extraordinary powers, his alien origin doesn't define him.

According to your fucking rantings I, a second generation immigrant, am not define by anything that's ever happened to me where I live, I have to ignore all of that and instead pretend to come from where my grandparents came from.

According to your fucking rants that applies to every single immigrant on the face of the world.

According to your fucking rants instead of liking burgers because I grew to like them I should eat Borsh because that's what my ancestors ate.

That's the kind of angle you want applied to this character, for him to ignore his nurture and embrace his place of origin, at the cost of everything that he is.

Since I don't agree with you you keep making this about the fucking credit box.

You don't even fucking know how I hate the credit box. I don't care WHO the hell came up with these concepts, only that they are the best ones ever applied to the character. I don't care what the writers name is, just what effect the idea has on the character, and whether it's a good one or a bad one.

But you don't understand that, you're too fucking bitter because your comic book super hero is not fantastic enough or acting against his true character.

You're more interested in seeing Superman flying through space with his hands behind his back or spending time in his Fortress instead of understanding that that's not whot he character is nor should have ever been.

The character was raised to be a human, he thinks of himself as a human. Finding out that he's from outer space should enrich his life, not erase it or alter it.

LOOK at Smallville.

You actually think that the best thing for that character would be for him to suddenly ignore his humanity and move to an ice Fortress...