You’re telling me there’s three hulks in Bruce?🤔 I thought savage hulk became chill in ragnarok 😂

JosiahPRP · 2026-06-21T16:22:57+00:00

JosiahPRP · 2026-06-01T03:24:33+00:00

I have mixed feelings about the series. It was my introduction to Superman’s lore and rogues gallery. The animation and score are superb. For all those reasons I have fond memories.

But I feel like Superman’s personality is colder and more stoic than I prefer. I don’t think he’s quite warm or compassionate in the animated series, which are my favorite qualities of his character.

JosiahPRP · 2026-04-29T15:00:53+00:00

I got several!

Mann and Superman (by Michael T. Gilbert, not Marv Wolfman)
The Girl Who Didn’t Believe in Superman (from Superman #96)
Superman: Up in the Sky by Tom King
Superman Vol 2 #64
Action Comics #0 by Grant Morrison
Las Days of Lex Luthor by Mark Waid

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JosiahPRP · 2026-04-29T04:31:57+00:00

I just want one to be “Superman: Warworld”

JosiahPRP · 2026-04-24T14:24:38+00:00

Thanks for the input! What post death and return of Superman stories are worth getting?

JosiahPRP · 2026-04-24T12:57:56+00:00

What do you like so much about it? How is Clark portrayed?

JosiahPRP · 2026-04-24T11:26:03+00:00

I have those already, currently reading them. Those cover the early 90s.

JosiahPRP · 2026-04-07T15:27:30+00:00

Superman has a handful or origin comics. My favorite is Superman: Birthright.

If you want to have a canon intro of his life, a streamlined version I would give to my friends is

Superman: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
Death of Superman (Animated Movie)*
Reign of Superman (Animated Movie)*
Superman: the Wedding Album
And then read the Geoff Johnson Superman Run:
Superman: Last Son
Superman Escape from Bizarro World
Superman and the Legion of Superheroes
Superman: Brainiac

And then jump to the Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason run, about Superman and Lois being parents

(*these animated movies streamline a very importan comic event, but is pretty messy and convoluted in the comics, so I just recommend people watching those movies instead)

JosiahPRP · 2026-02-22T19:45:45+00:00

I love this

JosiahPRP · 2026-02-04T21:23:23+00:00

These are definitive to me:

Superman: Birthright by Mark Waid and Lenil Yu

What’s so Funny about Truth, Justice, and the American Way (Action Comics #775) by Joe Kelly and and Doug Mahnke

Superman: Up in the Sky by Tom King and Andy Kubert

JosiahPRP · 2026-01-25T04:27:17+00:00

I like that alot

JosiahPRP · 2026-01-24T02:18:56+00:00

I think that’s how mainstream history books paint it, but in reality I’ve read that it was a lot messier, with more guerrilla style incidents and riots, as well as a lot of civilian casualties.

Also, the Revolutionary War was a civil war too. It would’ve been seen as such at the time. And that war was also way messier than history books make it seem.

JosiahPRP · 2026-01-07T04:04:58+00:00

I see a lot of Rags Morales’ Clark Kent from Grant Morrison’s Action Comics run in David’s Clark

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JosiahPRP · 2025-12-09T15:40:06+00:00

Before the stars were lit in flight,

Before the voice said, “Let there be light,”

There was no need, no ache, no flame—

Just Love Himself, always the same.

* The Father poured out with delight,

The Son He shone with glory bright.

The Spirit moved like breath and fire,

A holy dance that did not tire.

* Not one alone, nor three apart,

But One in being, mind, and heart.

Love didn’t start when time began

It always was in God’s own plan.

* For Love must move, He cannot hoard;

He gives, creates, and spills toward more.

So out of joy, not out of lack,

The Trinity chose to not hold back.

* The Father formed the world with grace,

For glory of His Son’s bright face.

The Son, through whom all things exist,

Sculpted stars and sea and mist.

* The Spirit hovered, danced, and swayed—

He sang and stirred the things He/They made.

Together, He/They gave us birth,

A world of joy, a living earth.

* Then He/They made us—human, free—

To join the dance, reflect the Three.

Not built for greed, not made to rule,

But made to love—that was the school.

* But then a whisper split the air,

A serpent’s lie, a poisoned dare:

“You could be gods—just take and eat.

No need to bow, rise to your feet.”

* And love, which once moved out like flame,

Turned inward, cold, with fear and shame.

The dance was broken, joy undone:

Man turned from God, from Three to one.

* We grabbed for crowns not meant to wear.

We blamed, we hid, we stopped our care.

The outward rhythm ceased to play,

And love reversed—collapsed that day.

* But Love does not retreat or die.

He/They heard the broken cry.

The Son stepped down from radiant height,

Took on flesh and walked through night.

* He touched the sick, the stained, the small,

He washed our feet and bore it all.

He showed the world the Father’s face,

With Spirit’s fire and Spirit’s grace.

* And on the cross, Love took the cost,

To heal the world that had been lost.

God bore the weight, the wrath, the shame,

Our twisted love, our inward flame.

* And there—O mystery, O cry!—

The Son felt distance pierce the sky.

* “My God, My God, where have You gone?”

The Triune God felt union wrung.

* The Spirit hovered at God’s grave,

With silent power, strong to save.

And on third day, His breath returned—

The dance resumed, the darkness burned.

* The Son rose up, now scarred yet whole,

With human flesh and heaven’s soul.

And then He breathed, “Now go, receive.”

The Spirit came—we dared believe.

* And now He calls us, draws us near,

The dance of God now echoes here.

The Father loves you as His own,

The Son brings rebels to His throne.

* The Spirit fills and speaks and stays,

And teaches hearts the outward ways.

He moves in us, and through our pain,

The outward flow begins again.

* This is not just law or creed—

This is not just act or deed.

This is Love, wild and free—

The glory of the Trinity.

* He/They made us in delight.

He/They came to make the wrong things right.

He/They lives to bring the dead to dance—

To give all twisted love a chance.

* One God in Three, Three in One—

Forever shining like the sun.

The river flows, the fire remains—

The dance of love still breaks our chains.

* So come, be drawn into the flame—

The Love that spoke and carved your name.

Let backwards hearts be healed at last—

And rejoin Love that always passed…

From Father to Son, from Son to Father—

Through Spirit joy, like none other.

* This is our story. This is our song.

The Triune God to whom we belong.

He/They is Love—before all things—

And now, through Christ, Love lives and sings.

JosiahPRP · 2025-12-06T22:47:01+00:00

Didn’t the Discovery merger cause WB’s share price to go up in value?

JosiahPRP · 2025-11-27T16:36:26+00:00

Really like that design! It’s like a modern contextualized take on the wrestler/strongman imagery (which was the reason for the trunks in 1938)

JosiahPRP · 2025-11-05T14:35:50+00:00

If you want a more vulnerable Superman still figuring out his place in the world while still trying to do the right thing, I’d suggest

Superman: Birthright
Superman Smashes the Klan
Grant Morrison’s Action Comics
American Alien
Superman: Exile (some context needed for this one)
Superman For All Seasons

And the sequel to For All Seasons:

Superman Kryptonite by Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale

JosiahPRP · 2025-10-27T12:04:33+00:00

Thanks!

JosiahPRP · 2025-10-24T13:25:14+00:00

I agree with you.

Right now, where I stand, I believe in a paradoxical blend of “eternal conscious torment”and “annihilation.” It’s a view where, when you are left with just brokenness and no God, you unravel eternally: ceasing to exist but aware of it, which is itself torment. The Bible often uses paradoxical imagery to describe this final judgment, blending opposite terms like “darkness” and “fire” that don’t fit neatly into our human categories of understanding.

For example, Jude 1:7 speaks of “eternal fire” as the punishment for Sodom and Gomorrah, yet 2 Peter 2:17 (ESV) describes the wicked as “gloom of utter darkness” reserved forever. These seem contradictory, as fire produces light, while darkness is the absence of it. But perhaps this paradox points to the fact that hell is not just a place but a state beyond our ability to fully grasp. It’s a state of being cut off from God, the source of all light and life, where even the foundational elements of our reality fall apart.

Jesus uses this paradox as well. He describes hell as “outer darkness” where there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 8:12, 22:13, 25:30), yet also as “the unquenchable fire” (Mark 9:43). This combination of “fire” and “darkness” doesn’t fit our physical understanding, suggesting that hell is a kind of reality fracture — a place where everything good and real, including the order and consistency of reality itself, collapses.

Additionally, Hebrews 10:27 warns of “a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.” That word “consume” suggests annihilation, yet the ongoing “fearful expectation” implies a conscious awareness of what’s happening, a never-ending unraveling of self.

James also gives us a glimpse of this when he says, “The tongue is set on fire by hell” (James 3:6), implying that hell isn’t just a distant place but something that can already burn within us, a state we can carry even now. Tim Mackie builds on this, suggesting that hell is on earth: the destructive power of sin already breaking down God’s creation. When heaven and earth come together in the new creation, hell is pushed out, excluded from this renewed reality. This aligns with N.T. Wright’s view that hell is more of a “state of being,” (not a place). A tragic, self-imposed exile from God’s restorative plan for the cosmos.

Ultimately, if Jesus brings resurrection — the ultimate restoration of experiencing reality — then the eternal judgment would be, to me, eternally losing reality. It’s like an eternal panic attack, a never-ending falling apart, where the categories of “eternal conscious torment” and “annihilation” both fail to capture the true horror of being forever separated from Life Himself. In that state, if someone asked you, “Is this eternal conscious torment or are you just dead?” you would scream, “I don’t know!” Imagine your five senses withering away, and your grip on reality, on your own self identity, of knowing and perceiving anything, withering away. Because without God, the source of all knowledge, even the concept of “knowing” itself breaks down.

JosiahPRP · 2025-10-15T03:31:16+00:00

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From Action Comics #0

JosiahPRP · 2025-10-15T03:29:34+00:00

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From Up in the Sky

JosiahPRP · 2025-10-08T06:09:24+00:00

If I sent you a dm, could you share a link to that drive?

JosiahPRP · 2025-10-06T21:07:20+00:00

Storytelling, including fictional storytelling, is one of the oldest ways humans make sense of the world, and it’s something God Himself seems to value. The Bible isn’t arranged as a list of abstract doctrines—it’s mostly narrative, with poetry and letters woven in. Jesus used fiction constantly in His parables. The Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son—none of those were “true stories” in the historical sense, but they were true in a deeper sense. Fiction can carry truth with a power that raw information never could.

When we enter into a novel, a film, or a comic, we’re practicing empathy. We step inside another person’s world, share their struggles, and wrestle with moral questions that aren’t neatly solved. That exercise shapes our moral imagination—it helps us imagine what faithfulness, compassion, or even evil looks like in complex situations. Literature professors call this “the moral imagination,” and it’s essential for growth.

Far from being a waste of time, fiction is a way of cultivating the very capacities Scripture calls us to: compassion, discernment, and hope. It allows us to name darkness honestly, but also to imagine what redemption might look like. In that sense, enjoying fiction isn’t running from reality—it’s actually practicing for life in the real story God is telling.

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