Marjorie Liu Reflects On the Immortality of Superman

The writer grew up in the Age of the Apocalypse , along with the rest of his generation, with the threat of nuclear war.

He says Superman was always kindâutterly, earnestly unselfconscious and brave in expressing that kindness, whether he was Clark or Kal-Elâand that stuck with me throughout my childhood, into adulthood.

Superman: The Movie was released in 1978 .

LZ Granderson: Superman saved my young self, preserved my optimistic hopeful heart from the withering radioactive orthodoxies of my nuclear childhood.

LZ: Superman is a good person, the best of all heroes, is almost taken for granted at this point, but in this day and age, perhaps itâs worth a pointed reminder of why that still matters.

He says Superman , the last child of an extinct people and a destroyed world, is a symbol of what we can be if we turn towards each other.

A thousand years from now , when archaeologists are picking over the fragmented, decayed remains of our cultural ephemera, no doubt there will be two immensely popular areas of study based on the sheer volume of material left behind by us, the future ancient dead.

If there is one superhero who will remain immortal, passed down from generation to generation, it will be Superman .