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How to Give Your Superhero Story an Optimistic Tone
🕑 Added 2025-08-25 07:00:04 +0000 UTCGolly, I wonder what has me thinking about superhero stories with an optimistic tone?
In my opinion, this has been the best summer for superhero movies in a long time, and the tone, overall, was surprisingly light. The chief villain in Thunderbolts turned out to be depression, and the last half hour is the closest thing we may ever get to Psychonauts: the Movie. Superman is easily my favorite Superman movie ever made, largely because of Krypto. And Fantastic Four, or as it was called here, O Quarteto Fantástico, is the Fantastic Four movie I’ve been wanting since I was a kid reading the comic.
I think I may have mentioned it before, but Ben Grimm, the Thing, has always been my favorite superhero. Second and third place were Nightcrawler and the Beast. Stan Lee had his flaws, but it was a stroke of genius to realize that shy kids with self-esteem issues bought comics too, and probably bought more of them, in the long run.
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Scott Meyer
He's open to suggestions, but to provide them, you would have to get within stabbing range.
Joel Ronningen
Is the putative hero open to requests/suggestions for the stabbing list?
Scott Meyer
Sounds like a good place to blow ten bucks every now and then.
Glen Newsome
There is a store near me called McKay's. They have a used comic book section that sells them for .50 and issue. Mostly stuff from 1970-2000. Love that place.
