超人：红色之子 (2003)

《超人：红色之子》（英语：Superman: Red Son）是一部在2003年由马克·米勒主笔由DC漫画发行在《Elseworlds》的漫画。该部漫画由3本构成，以马克·米勒的假设：“如果超人在苏联长大会是什么样？”为主题。漫画在推出后获得了积极的反响，并获得了2004年威尔埃斯纳漫画产业奖的提名。

《超人：红色之子》把DC漫画中的经典英雄角色与现实中的政治人物揉合在了一起，并将冷战的元素融合到漫画之中，虚构了一个从1953年到2001年苏联与美国两强争霸的世界。在漫画中，超人的飞船没有降落在美国的堪萨斯州，而是降落在了一个乌克兰的集体农庄里，超人并且在社会主义的环境中长大，并成为了国家英雄。在苏联电台的广播中将描述超人“......作为社会主义工人阶级的代表，他为斯大林、社会主义以及华沙条约的国际扩张而不停奋斗......”。而他的“秘密身份”（即他的养父母给他的名字）是一个国家机密。

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《超人：红色之子》（2020）

Superman: Red Son is an American three-issue prestige format comic book miniseries published by DC Comics that was released under their Elseworlds imprint in 2003. Author Mark Millar created the comic with the premise, "What if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union?" It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2004 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series. The story mixes alternate versions of DC super-heroes with alternate-reality versions of real political figures such as Joseph Stalin and John F. Kennedy. The series spans approximately 1953–2001, save for a futuristic epilogue.

In Red Son, Superman's rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas. As an adult he becomes a state-sponsored superhero whose civilian identity is kept a state secret, and who is described in Soviet radio broadcasts not as fighting for "truth, justice, and the American way", but as the champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for "Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact".

Publication history

The ideas that made up the story came together over a long stretch of time. Mark Millar said:

Red Son is based on a thought that flitted through my head when I read Superman #300 as a six-year-old. It was an imaginary story where Superman's rocket landed in neutral waters between the USA and the USSR and both sides were rushing to claim the baby. As a kid growing up in the shadow of the Cold War, the notion of what might have happened if the Soviets had reached him first just seemed fascinating to me.

As I got older, I started putting everything together and I first pitched something to DC when I was thirteen, I think — although it was in a much cruder form, of course, and my drawings weren't quite up to scratch.

By 1992, he had already developed many of the plot points:

Instead of landing in Kansas as a child, I've decided to explore what could have happened if his rocket would have landed on a collective farm in the Soviet Union. Instead of working for the Daily Planet, he'll be a reporter for Pravda. There's a reversal of the current situation, this time it's the U.S.A. that's splitting up with Georgia and Louisiana demanding independence — tanks rolling through the streets of New Orleans. I'll be including a whole bunch of DC characters, like Batman and Green Lantern — who you'll see in a new light.

Millar has stated on Twitter that after first coming up with the concept of Red Son when he was 6, he pitched it to DC Comics when he was 13, sold it when he was 27 and published it when he was 33.

Grant Morrison has given interviews about giving Millar the idea of sending Superman back to the past, as was used in the end of Red Son.

Certain images from the series are taken from famous comic book covers or panels. A splash panel from the first issue references Superman's pose on the cover of Superman #1. Another panel showing riots in the U.S. mimics the cover to Action Comics #1, which was the first appearance of Superman.

Plot

The Soviet Union reveals Superman to the world in 1953. The news of a superpowered alien under Soviet control causes panic in the United States, shifting the focus of the Cold War arms race from nuclear weapons to metahumans. CIA agent James Olsen recruits Lex Luthor, a scientist employed by S.T.A.R. Labs, to destroy Superman. Luthor's first act is to cause Sputnik 2 to plummet towards Metropolis. After Superman diverts the satellite away from the city, Luthor retrieves traces of Superman's genetic material from the satellite and uses them to create a monstrous clone of Superman dubbed Superman Two.