Who the Heck Is Jim Treacher

Who the Heck Is Jim Treacher

Is James Gunn's Superman the First Real Comic-Book Movie?

Yes

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Jim Treacher
Jul 28, 2025
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A few weeks ago, I asked the musical question:

Are You Ready for a Super-Scolding?

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Are You Ready for a Super-Scolding?

One of the great things about being Generation X — besides finally getting old enough that it’s okay not to care about anything anymore — is that we were the exact right age to appreciate some of the greatest pop culture of the 20th Century. Star Wars

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I was irritated because James Gunn and his dumb brother had just said something silly about Superman being an immigrant. The implication was: If you like this comic-book story about an impossibly powerful and good-hearted space alien, you shouldn’t have a problem with the flood of illegal aliens Biden invited into America. Got that, fascist?

The Gunn brothers’ delusional hostility didn’t make me want to avoid the movie altogether, but I wasn’t in a big hurry either. If filmmakers can’t help themselves from cutting their potential audience in half, I’ll get around to their movies when I feel like it.

Well, I finally felt like seeing this flick. It’s definitely a James Gunn movie — whiplash tonal shifts, jokes that land maybe 70% of the time, a bunch of obscure characters from the source material who are barely introduced…

And guess what?

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