Superman Smashes the Klan

Damn this was good! It's not surprising because Gene Luen Yang is just the best. (Side note: he did a program at MICE in Boston with Ryan North a few years ago and it was so great and so funny and he just seems like the nicest guy!)

I wasn't expecting to cry or for the story to be both so exciting and so meaningful. I don't really know anything about Superman other than just the general cultural knowledge and random movie viewings. Yang does such a good job of presenting an origin story that's more than the trope of an origin story with compassion and humor. His afterward should be the model of an afterward for a story like this: comprehensive, readable, contextual, and personal.

Finally, the absolute least important part of this book, but the part that made me laugh the most is the random background kid obsessed with the idea of Superman smelling like “cotton candy clouds.” LOL.