For me, the Superman books just never caught my interest. I don't read the books; not because I don't like him as a character but simply because the everyday stuff he gets into between the huge events where he can be challenged by forces that could actually kill him just don't interest me. Supes is nigh indestructable against most things, so him doing anything less than fighting huge god-like entities like Darksied or the Anti-Monitor seems just dull to me.
As such, come the DC relaunch, I'm not going to use it as a jumping on point to start reading the Superman books. As such, I could not care less about whether he's married or not. The comics from what I've gathered usually treated their marriage as an incidental thing anyway, so there's that.
However, one thing about Superman and marriage irks me: the idea some writers (predominantly of elseworlds stories) have that Superman should be shipped with Wonder Woman. Bob touched on this a bit in the video, but here's the more important issue. The only reason they support this ship comes from the delusion that the most powerful man in the world should "logically" be paired with the strongest woman in the world.
Thing is, this isn't logical at all. Putting aside that the two have nothing in common outside of their superheroing, from a story perspective this severely limits what writers can do when it comes to their relationships. If a superhero marries or gets into a relationship with a normal human, that lends itself to endless drama and interesting storylines. If two superheros shack up, what tension is there to be had? Why should one worry about the safety of the other when both have saved the world a hundred times over?
And also, as that whole "Flash Family" saga of Wally West's tenure as the primary Flash (before Barry Allen came back), is it really better to abandon all the non-powered supporting cast of a book in favor of just developing the heroes? No damnit! The supporting cast is often the ones that get the most character development in a book because they need to be defined by more than just their name, costume, and powers, because they have none. What the SupermanxWonder Woman shippers are trying to do is define a relationship not through their individual characters, but simply through their powers. And that is how a hack writes!
As such, come the DC relaunch, I'm not going to use it as a jumping on point to start reading the Superman books. As such, I could not care less about whether he's married or not. The comics from what I've gathered usually treated their marriage as an incidental thing anyway, so there's that.
However, one thing about Superman and marriage irks me: the idea some writers (predominantly of elseworlds stories) have that Superman should be shipped with Wonder Woman. Bob touched on this a bit in the video, but here's the more important issue. The only reason they support this ship comes from the delusion that the most powerful man in the world should "logically" be paired with the strongest woman in the world.
Thing is, this isn't logical at all. Putting aside that the two have nothing in common outside of their superheroing, from a story perspective this severely limits what writers can do when it comes to their relationships. If a superhero marries or gets into a relationship with a normal human, that lends itself to endless drama and interesting storylines. If two superheros shack up, what tension is there to be had? Why should one worry about the safety of the other when both have saved the world a hundred times over?
And also, as that whole "Flash Family" saga of Wally West's tenure as the primary Flash (before Barry Allen came back), is it really better to abandon all the non-powered supporting cast of a book in favor of just developing the heroes? No damnit! The supporting cast is often the ones that get the most character development in a book because they need to be defined by more than just their name, costume, and powers, because they have none. What the SupermanxWonder Woman shippers are trying to do is define a relationship not through their individual characters, but simply through their powers. And that is how a hack writes!
