The Post-Traumatic SuperHero

“ I was actually able, to look at some of these REALLY Dark, sort of Human Feelings and just  sort of process them through The Work — 

Y’know, Darkseid, Dr. Hurt — 

those were the characters that come out of thinking :

“There are actually people out there who would REALLY want to see you FUCKED-UP, they would CHEER —”

and I didn’t really think they existed before, 

I thought ultimately you could make friends with everyone, and get them to laugh and somehow — 

That doesn’t... 

That doesn’t work like that..... •grins• 

And when we were doing Final Crisis, any Superman : Beyond and Batman : RIP, 

it was  about that idea, of almost a sort of Post-Traumatic SuperHero — 

The Man Who's Seen it All and Done it All --  

and who's come back and still, 

somewhere in His Soul, he's dragging out this last, 

little iota of Hope....

....and I had to be SHOWN, y’know —

“THIS is What it FEELS Like to be on course for The Road to The Absolute Self — Do Ya Wanna Do That, Do You Wanna Go There? Do You Want to Follow This Down...?”

And The Answer that becomes  clear, obviously, is :

“Of Course Not — 

You Wanna Have President Superman, 

and Multiple Worlds, and Hope.”