Robin (Dick Grayson) has the same problem. The 1976 DC Super Calendar told us that Dick was born on November 11th but in post crisis stories it's supposed in the week before Halloween so 24-30 October... then in Zero Hour it's March 21st (first day of Spring)... Maybe Dick is such a Superman fanboy that he wants an ambiguous birthday like Clark. lol (p.s: young Robin (Dick) WAS a Superman fanboy... it's kinda adorable.)
I associate Superman as Dick's cool uncle. lol. That guy that you're just kinda always a little bit in awe of. I'll never get over that comic where they (Robin and Superman) partner up for a mission but Bruce didn't want him going out that night so Robin sneaked out. (they partnered together by coincidence though.) When Superman brought him home after the mission, Bruce walked in to find Dick lying in bed like he never left. Then he asks him if he did his homework (he did not) to prove that he DID go out but Bruce finds it completed anyways somehow. Clark did it really quickly while Bruce & Dick were talking. Apparently uncle Superman didn't want Robin getting in trouble. XD Bruce knows it was him of course because "somehow" Robin's motorcycle was in Metropolis. lol Honestly, Dick Grayson and Clark Kent are a pretty fun pairing most of the time since it's such a different dynamic than him & Bats. Also, Superman likes to compliment the kid... something I can only imagine happening sparingly with Bats. lol
the comic where superman and wonderwoman bring superman christmas presents was turned into an awesome episode of Justice League Unlimited, "For the man who has everything"
Great Episode Scott!! Once again stopped my movie marathon to watch Nerdsync! I wish his birthday was October, having that in common with my favourite superhero would be awesome.. Though his June "birthdays" are around my mentors birthday who is a Superman expert! Finding little details funny haha. Can't wait for the 100th episode next week!
A few things: 1. This Tie In was a lot longer than they usually are....not that I'm complainin, but this could have been a full comics misconceptions episode with how long it was. 2. I think the Tie In videos have the best intro music of them all.
You should do a video why do impacts of punches or blows in comics generate light. I'm pretty sure it's more than just a visual gimmick because a lot of times it actually does show that it creates luminescence by reflecting off the characters themselves. Video games also explore this. Do their blows actually create enough friction to ignite? Does that mean when fighting each other, they're giving each other burns as a side result of fighting?
February 29 was frequently referred to as Superman's birthday in the Silver Age, but mainly in text pages, and things like that calendar. I'm not sure if it was ever mentioned within a story. But February 29 of what year? That I guess they avoided saying, for understandable reasons. But there was one time it was made to seem like time did pass normally for Superman and his friends. In Jimmy Olsen #70, cover-date July 1963, Jimmy and the gang honor the 25th anniversary of Superman making Metropolis his home (which would mean in 1938, when Action #1 was published). If you assume Clark Kent was a recent college graduate in 1938, that would mean he was born in 1916 (according to the original continuity)!
The problem of birthdays and other celbration days in fiction (especially Marvel comics, since they don't reboot their continuity) was always odd to me. The characters don't age that fast or not at all, yet they celebrate Christmas and birthdays. I do realize that many comic book series and tv series use the floating timeline, but it's still pretty strange. It wouldn't bother me at all if the authors didn't make those Halloween/Christmas etc. specials or didn't refference what year the stories take place in The Simpsons are still the same age, even though there are multiple Christmas specials, characters have birthdays, even Homer and Marge's first meeting was once in the 70's, later changed to the 90's. What war Punisher thought in was also changed a few times. The thing is that all of that is canon, so I always wonder what the in-universe explanation is for them once having fighting in Vietnam and once in Afghanistan. It's really hard to keep the timeline right in such medium as comic books, I'm aware of that. Hundreds of artist worked on those characters through many years, and it's hard to keep everything same without refreshing it for new readers. However, I have never seen an explanation for the characters once doing that, and later just doing something else at the same point in their life but in different decade. The thing is, timelines are not only messed up in the superhero comics. The Walking Dead started in 2003 (the action is supposed to start in 2003 as well from what I've read) and in the beginning Carl is 7. Then two years pass, and we get a two year jump skip. Carl is suddenly somewhere at his puberty period, and looks a bit older too. He should be 11. But the creator states that he is around 13. Which makes many think that the time skip was four years instead of two. But there is a baby character being born during that period which is around two years old (still can't speak). So the author contradicts himself. Get your shit together, writers of fiction.
I once tried calculating batmans birthday (as in the night bruce's parents were mudered not the debut of the crime fighter) based on when that particular version of zorro would be showing during early winter (since it's often implied to have happened around new years or chrismas), can't remember what got but I realized it was all pretty silly whne i found out that bruce wayne had an oficial birthday and since he was eight when his parents died i could have skipped several levels of research.
A birthday in context of Earth is where the planet was in relation to the sun on the day a person was born. Kal-El was born on Krypton, so he has no Terran birthday. The Kents would have had to make one up for the paperwork when they adopted him, and that would be the day he'd celebrate his birthday as Clark Kent. The day in or around when his ship crashed on the Kent farm sounds legit enough. That'd make it June 18th. But kids would ask Superman what his birthday was, like as he saved them, or visited them in hospitals or other charity work, and if he happened to say June 18th that would give people yet another reason to be suspicious of his relationship with Clark Kent. So, he'd make one up to please the kids, and Leap Day would be easy for him to remember. However, to adults he could simply explain that since he was an alien, he doesn't have a birthday on Earth, and the planet/star relationship that kept track of his Rao years in relation to Krypton are no more, so even if he used the Kryptonian calendar and did the math, it would be rather pointless an exercise. So the answer can easily be both and neither. Simple enough.
+Zachs Mind - It sounded like, to me, that (ignoring relativity) he was born on February 29th (CDT), but left Krypton on June 16th and crashed on Earth on June 18th. Besides, if the newspaper clippings said Jonathan and Martha Kent said they had just given birth to a toddler, that would have raised more than a few eyebrows.
I think it would be cool if he were "born" on the Summer Solctice. It would tie him in more with the idea of a "Sun God" and logically his pod would have picked that day to land because that's the day with more sunlight or something. Only...he's depicted as landing at night a lot so...hmm...maybe not. I dunno.
hey Scott long time watcher/listener I love all your work keep it up also plz make this your new official catch phrase " remember to read between the panels !" THX AGAIN BUDDY # RTRBTP
It would be a hell of a coincidence if the planet Krypton (which only has one language? they were pretty advanced so maybe, but if English became the world's language, would we stop calling it English and start calling it Earthese?) had the same "-ese" suffix we have in modern English deriving from ... Latin? Italian for sure, where it's pronounced phonetically as ehsseh. So... it's kind of academic.
April 18th is my birthday! And you just said you loved my comment about Chris Evans and Henry Cavill having a superman/Captain America team up after seeing them make faces at each other at the Oscars! Hahahah
My birthday is August 2 which I think is a month before Alfred Pennyworth's although I might be wrong about that. really interesting video very unique topic. It really is interesting to get into the nuts and bolts of these questions. I also enjoyed this video because it was a bit of lighthearted fun and it did not take the subject too seriously. That's what's great about your show; you discuss interesting and often times unique subjects or questions that not else seems to think of while making them fun and that keeps viewers like me coming back; I also learn things I did not know and usually relax while I am doing it. Keep up the great work. Incidentally,, I'd like to know how the Kent's could adopt Clark without people getting suspicious; after all, he would have needed a birth certificate and other documents. How did they do it without someone asking a lot of questions????
in john Byrne's 86' reboot of superman (my fav version) says that Kal-El rocketing away from the destruction of Krypton and just as the Kents were preparing for the first heavy snow storm of the year, Johnathan wanted to at least see where that strange crash landing happened in the old field beside his farm, out of fear that once the snow fell he's never find the crash at all. It was only after he and Martha got there that he was 'born' from the birthing matrix and he wasn't 'born' until they came upon him (technically making him an American born citizen, this was later stated by the supreme court, in an 'what if' issue where superman ran for president of the united states.) Prior to finding Clark, Martha Kent had a history of failed pregnancies. Friends and relatives assumed that they kept Martha’s “pregnancy” a secret in fear of losing another child. A blizzard that closed off Smallville for weeks also helped in the Kents’ alibi. this is feel is the best 'birthday' origin as it helps to fill in any plot holes that are left if the events of his landing on earth are left to any another season than winter.
please make a video about Nightwing, Red Hood and Red Robin (Tim Drake). I am confused about how old are them and how many years are the age gaps of each? thanks in advance!
Tim was 3 when Dick was 12, and Tim was 16 when Jason was 18. So, while time is confusing in comics, theoretically Dick is about 7 years older than Jason, Jason is about 2 years older than Tim, and Tim is about 9 years younger than Dick. The reboot messed all of that up, though, so, who has any idea how old any of them are supposed to be anymore.
Batman (in response to the cake he gave to Supes) - "I baked it myself. I hope you don't need super strength to cut it." Batman baked a giant sized cake as a birthday gift for Superman. I put this in my head canon for every canon I come across, and will assume it will happen off screen soemtime between Batman v Superman and the Justice League movie....
Hey, I recently got into comics and was wondering if you could do an episode on whatever crisis is. I'm assuming it was a storyline that changed some things as people generally refer to something as either pre or post crisis, and I feel like that could be an interesting episode.
I got a few ideas for episodes, I read a hard cover trade book outlining the early days and important events of batman's career in the golden age and I noticed more that once that when batman hit someone that either they'd spit up blood and teeth or they'd have a little snap sound effect by their neck, not unlike the late gwen stacy's so I wanted to know if the change to barman being lethal was in continuity or just a behind the scenes choice and I think that if you decided to make that video than you should make a video describing what constitutes an anti-hero, considering that deadpool was let onto the avengers team as a full fledged superhero but no one will spit in the direction of the punisher or moon knight and the like.
+nerdsync I happy u mentioned that krypton calendar may be completely different then earth's 365 days in a earth year but maybe theirs is different because we have no idea at least I have no idea how many days it takes krypton to circle their sun would love to know tho hint hint future video maybe lol also the man that has everything which u touch on briefly was in the cartoon also I believe it was justice League unlimited one of my favorite don't remember if they mentioned the date but batman gets him cash lol best gift ever lol
The source in the description goes into much more detail about the Kryptonian calendar system. And I almost included the JLU cartoon episode, but this was already running long for a Tie-In.
So with that second Superman story (the one where he tries out Kryptonite immunity,) has Superman's birthday on June 12th. That's pretty cool as that's my birthday too!
today is also my birthday.....you really got my hopes up there......should a held off on this video til the 29th to not get my hopes up so much.....oh well. at least I get Fuller House
i REMEMBER the old John Byrne "MAN OF STEEL" Minseries mentioned that Super Man Was Actually BORN on Earth as the Rocket was actually a Gestation Pod (this was alluded to in the "GODS AND MONSTERS MOVIE" so His Actual Birthday IS The Day He Crashed on Earth PS this also helped make super Man an American Citizen instead of an "illegal Alien) which was a story plot used in the older comics.
A note on what you say about cover dates, in the Marvel Year by Year a Visual Chronicle (www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1409378888) I read that you can't rely on the cover dates to date comics, this is because they actually refer to when they should be taken off the shelves, rather than when they were to be first sold. Hence why the Christmas editions have 'Feb' on them rather than 'Dec'
Well maybe in Metropolis they have 3 months of Christmas instead of 12 days as in the song, although it seems they started talking about it in October and kids go back to school from Christmas vacation in January. Okay so now days they call it Winter break instead of Christmas.
On Lois and Clark the Kents found him on May 17. I also noticed on the calendar Kraypton blew up on June 16, the day George Reeves died of a supposed suicide but personally I believe it was murder.
Seeing as how it was the early years of comics and a bunch of people changed things and it probably didn't seem that important at that time it doesn't seem strange that superman's birthday would be so confusing.
I don't have access to old DC comics, so I can't check the context myself, but did the June 10 one really involve a birthday party? In the panel at 2:50, where Superman is cutting a cake, the banner behind them says "Happy Anniversary," not "Happy Birthday."
+NerdSync I always figured Superman's birthday was in June. Whatever day Action Comics #1 introduced Superman to the world in 1938 would be his birth date; regardless of how old he is. (Exception being Smallville, where October 18th, 1989 was Clark Kent's birthday. Coincidentally, Smallville premiered on October 18th, 2001). HOWEVER, I do think it is in canon that Mr. Mxylptlik's birthday is February 29th.
My understanding of Coverdates was that they exist as a kind of expiry date for periodicals? The expectation being that when the coverdate was reached, it was time to pull the unsold copies of the shelf and return them to the publishers for a refund?
Maybe feb 29th is when he was born and the fluxuating date is when he landed? Since the reboots often shift ages around and the the kents are farmers, they might not be in the right place at the right time some years so the rocket comes at a different time of year to match with when the kents will be. This mght also be why the rocket crashes somewhere different in almost every retelling. From on hte side of the road closer to an orpahnage than the kents home to smack dab in the middle of the kents barn.
at first I thought it was kind of funny that my birthday is the day that Krypton blew up, but I wonder if they made it that day because that was the date that George Reeves died.
6:00 Superman American alien isn't canon to the current continuity? Are you sure about this because it does seem to make a ton of references to current day DC characters. It even has Clark having his first ever meeting with big names like Oliver before he became green arrow Lex Luthor and even has him meeting Batman for the very first time (in what looked an awful lot like his original costume from 1939).
I am new in this channel, but I already love your videos...but to be honest I didn't watched this one, cause I really don't care about Superman at all... I just wanted to post this coment on the most recent video. What I really want to say here is, I would very much enjoy some video about Spawn. He is my favorite comic book character of all time (Batman is second), and I know that he is not as famous as DC or Marvel characters, but I think that his stories have much potential to make interesting videos, especially if they are made by you.
This just might be my favourite NerdSync video. It has everything I love, over analysing, tearing your own jokes apart and superman's diary.
We aim to please!
I say whatever date Action Comics #1 first went on sale
There was a play Man and Superman about Don Juan in 1903 when did that premiere?
In 1903.
Robin (Dick Grayson) has the same problem. The 1976 DC Super Calendar told us that Dick was born on November 11th but in post crisis stories it's supposed in the week before Halloween so 24-30 October... then in Zero Hour it's March 21st (first day of Spring)... Maybe Dick is such a Superman fanboy that he wants an ambiguous birthday like Clark. lol
(p.s: young Robin (Dick) WAS a Superman fanboy... it's kinda adorable.)
Kinda like how Kylo Ren is so obsessed with Vader. Except not adorable at all. Just depressing. And kind of creepy.
That would make sense since Nightwing chose his name because of Superman.
I associate Superman as Dick's cool uncle. lol. That guy that you're just kinda always a little bit in awe of.
I'll never get over that comic where they (Robin and Superman) partner up for a mission but Bruce didn't want him going out that night so Robin sneaked out. (they partnered together by coincidence though.) When Superman brought him home after the mission, Bruce walked in to find Dick lying in bed like he never left. Then he asks him if he did his homework (he did not) to prove that he DID go out but Bruce finds it completed anyways somehow. Clark did it really quickly while Bruce & Dick were talking. Apparently uncle Superman didn't want Robin getting in trouble. XD
Bruce knows it was him of course because "somehow" Robin's motorcycle was in Metropolis. lol
Honestly, Dick Grayson and Clark Kent are a pretty fun pairing most of the time since it's such a different dynamic than him & Bats. Also, Superman likes to compliment the kid... something I can only imagine happening sparingly with Bats. lol
@@DeeFig66 wow I never knew about that story. That's honestly amazing haha, the part where Superman does his homework for him is gold
the comic where superman and wonderwoman bring superman christmas presents was turned into an awesome episode of Justice League Unlimited, "For the man who has everything"
It sure was!
My Birthday today aha 😂👌 was like wtf when you said happy b day
Fantastic!
Mines on the 26th of February
+mitchell price its my birthday too so suprised
+mitchell price It must be a popular day. I too was born on the 26th, along with Jonhy Cash
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Great Episode Scott!!
Once again stopped my movie marathon to watch Nerdsync! I wish his birthday was October, having that in common with my favourite superhero would be awesome..
Though his June "birthdays" are around my mentors birthday who is a Superman expert! Finding little details funny haha. Can't wait for the 100th episode next week!
A few things:
1. This Tie In was a lot longer than they usually are....not that I'm complainin, but this could have been a full comics misconceptions episode with how long it was.
2. I think the Tie In videos have the best intro music of them all.
You should do a video why do impacts of punches or blows in comics generate light. I'm pretty sure it's more than just a visual gimmick because a lot of times it actually does show that it creates luminescence by reflecting off the characters themselves. Video games also explore this. Do their blows actually create enough friction to ignite? Does that mean when fighting each other, they're giving each other burns as a side result of fighting?
whoa, you posted this on my B-DAY! I started screaming like a fangirl when you said happy birthday
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday
+denzel turtur happy late B-DAY
+denzel turtur HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy late birthday
Wow, my birthday is legitimately Feb 26th :) I appreciate the shout out!
February 29 was frequently referred to as Superman's birthday in the Silver Age, but mainly in text pages, and things like that calendar. I'm not sure if it was ever mentioned within a story. But February 29 of what year? That I guess they avoided saying, for understandable reasons. But there was one time it was made to seem like time did pass normally for Superman and his friends. In Jimmy Olsen #70, cover-date July 1963, Jimmy and the gang honor the 25th anniversary of Superman making Metropolis his home (which would mean in 1938, when Action #1 was published). If you assume Clark Kent was a recent college graduate in 1938, that would mean he was born in 1916 (according to the original continuity)!
I love "For the Man that has Everything" I wish we knew Moore about the writer of that book
The problem of birthdays and other celbration days in fiction (especially Marvel comics, since they don't reboot their continuity) was always odd to me. The characters don't age that fast or not at all, yet they celebrate Christmas and birthdays. I do realize that many comic book series and tv series use the floating timeline, but it's still pretty strange. It wouldn't bother me at all if the authors didn't make those Halloween/Christmas etc. specials or didn't refference what year the stories take place in The Simpsons are still the same age, even though there are multiple Christmas specials, characters have birthdays, even Homer and Marge's first meeting was once in the 70's, later changed to the 90's. What war Punisher thought in was also changed a few times. The thing is that all of that is canon, so I always wonder what the in-universe explanation is for them once having fighting in Vietnam and once in Afghanistan. It's really hard to keep the timeline right in such medium as comic books, I'm aware of that. Hundreds of artist worked on those characters through many years, and it's hard to keep everything same without refreshing it for new readers. However, I have never seen an explanation for the characters once doing that, and later just doing something else at the same point in their life but in different decade. The thing is, timelines are not only messed up in the superhero comics. The Walking Dead started in 2003 (the action is supposed to start in 2003 as well from what I've read) and in the beginning Carl is 7. Then two years pass, and we get a two year jump skip. Carl is suddenly somewhere at his puberty period, and looks a bit older too. He should be 11. But the creator states that he is around 13. Which makes many think that the time skip was four years instead of two. But there is a baby character being born during that period which is around two years old (still can't speak). So the author contradicts himself.
Get your shit together, writers of fiction.
Holy American Alien! I love that series so much! Easily one of my favorites currently going (could be of all time).
I once tried calculating batmans birthday (as in the night bruce's parents were mudered not the debut of the crime fighter) based on when that particular version of zorro would be showing during early winter (since it's often implied to have happened around new years or chrismas), can't remember what got but I realized it was all pretty silly whne i found out that bruce wayne had an oficial birthday and since he was eight when his parents died i could have skipped several levels of research.
Hey today is my birthday well when this was published
Nice!
+NerdSync Mine is on March 10th please tell on a video on March 10th.
Love the longer hair and beard. Keep up the amazing work!!!
A birthday in context of Earth is where the planet was in relation to the sun on the day a person was born. Kal-El was born on Krypton, so he has no Terran birthday. The Kents would have had to make one up for the paperwork when they adopted him, and that would be the day he'd celebrate his birthday as Clark Kent. The day in or around when his ship crashed on the Kent farm sounds legit enough. That'd make it June 18th.
But kids would ask Superman what his birthday was, like as he saved them, or visited them in hospitals or other charity work, and if he happened to say June 18th that would give people yet another reason to be suspicious of his relationship with Clark Kent. So, he'd make one up to please the kids, and Leap Day would be easy for him to remember. However, to adults he could simply explain that since he was an alien, he doesn't have a birthday on Earth, and the planet/star relationship that kept track of his Rao years in relation to Krypton are no more, so even if he used the Kryptonian calendar and did the math, it would be rather pointless an exercise.
So the answer can easily be both and neither. Simple enough.
+Zachs Mind - It sounded like, to me, that (ignoring relativity) he was born on February 29th (CDT), but left Krypton on June 16th and crashed on Earth on June 18th.
Besides, if the newspaper clippings said Jonathan and Martha Kent said they had just given birth to a toddler, that would have raised more than a few eyebrows.
I think it would be cool if he were "born" on the Summer Solctice. It would tie him in more with the idea of a "Sun God" and logically his pod would have picked that day to land because that's the day with more sunlight or something. Only...he's depicted as landing at night a lot so...hmm...maybe not. I dunno.
hey Scott long time watcher/listener I love all your work keep it up also plz make this your new official catch phrase " remember to read between the panels !" THX AGAIN BUDDY # RTRBTP
Kryptonese? I would have sworn it was "Kryptonian" lol. Interesting concept though, Scott!
I believe the people are Kryptonian, and the language is Kryptonese.
Kryptonian are the people and Krptonese might be the language I guess.
It would be a hell of a coincidence if the planet Krypton (which only has one language? they were pretty advanced so maybe, but if English became the world's language, would we stop calling it English and start calling it Earthese?) had the same "-ese" suffix we have in modern English deriving from ... Latin? Italian for sure, where it's pronounced phonetically as ehsseh.
So... it's kind of academic.
krypton is the planet. kryptonian is the people and kryptonese is the language
April 18th is my birthday! And you just said you loved my comment about Chris Evans and Henry Cavill having a superman/Captain America team up after seeing them make faces at each other at the Oscars! Hahahah
I'm gonna watch this again on my Birthday.
1:06 a panel where superman says Great Scott?
Awesome
My birthday is August 2 which I think is a month before Alfred Pennyworth's although I might be wrong about that. really interesting video very unique topic. It really is interesting to get into the nuts and bolts of these questions. I also enjoyed this video because it was a bit of lighthearted fun and it did not take the subject too seriously. That's what's great about your show; you discuss interesting and often times unique subjects or questions that not else seems to think of while making them fun and that keeps viewers like me coming back; I also learn things I did not know and usually relax while I am doing it. Keep up the great work. Incidentally,, I'd like to know how the Kent's could adopt Clark without people getting suspicious; after all, he would have needed a birth certificate and other documents. How did they do it without someone asking a lot of questions????
Hey!!!! Do you know any good comic websites? (nice vid too) And also, A may want to start a nerd like channel any tips?
Feb 26 is my birthday, so thanks for saying happy birthday.
in john Byrne's 86' reboot of superman (my fav version) says that Kal-El rocketing away from the destruction of Krypton and just as the Kents were preparing for the first heavy snow storm of the year, Johnathan wanted to at least see where that strange crash landing happened in the old field beside his farm, out of fear that once the snow fell he's never find the crash at all. It was only after he and Martha got there that he was 'born' from the birthing matrix and he wasn't 'born' until they came upon him (technically making him an American born citizen, this was later stated by the supreme court, in an 'what if' issue where superman ran for president of the united states.) Prior to finding Clark, Martha Kent had a history of failed pregnancies. Friends and relatives assumed that they kept Martha’s “pregnancy” a secret in fear of losing another child. A blizzard that closed off Smallville for weeks also helped in the Kents’ alibi. this is feel is the best 'birthday' origin as it helps to fill in any plot holes that are left if the events of his landing on earth are left to any another season than winter.
Yeah, it definitely seems the most plausible.
Nice research and great video, as always.
please make a video about Nightwing, Red Hood and Red Robin (Tim Drake). I am confused about how old are them and how many years are the age gaps of each? thanks in advance!
Tim was 3 when Dick was 12, and Tim was 16 when Jason was 18. So, while time is confusing in comics, theoretically Dick is about 7 years older than Jason, Jason is about 2 years older than Tim, and Tim is about 9 years younger than Dick.
The reboot messed all of that up, though, so, who has any idea how old any of them are supposed to be anymore.
I didn't watch it til now,but you actually posted this on my birthday.
6:03
That's probably because 4/18 was also when the first Superman comic was released.
Batman (in response to the cake he gave to Supes) - "I baked it myself. I hope you don't need super strength to cut it."
Batman baked a giant sized cake as a birthday gift for Superman. I put this in my head canon for every canon I come across, and will assume it will happen off screen soemtime between Batman v Superman and the Justice League movie....
great video, love the nerdsync channel
Hey, I recently got into comics and was wondering if you could do an episode on whatever crisis is. I'm assuming it was a storyline that changed some things as people generally refer to something as either pre or post crisis, and I feel like that could be an interesting episode.
I got a few ideas for episodes, I read a hard cover trade book outlining the early days and important events of batman's career in the golden age and I noticed more that once that when batman hit someone that either they'd spit up blood and teeth or they'd have a little snap sound effect by their neck, not unlike the late gwen stacy's so I wanted to know if the change to barman being lethal was in continuity or just a behind the scenes choice and I think that if you decided to make that video than you should make a video describing what constitutes an anti-hero, considering that deadpool was let onto the avengers team as a full fledged superhero but no one will spit in the direction of the punisher or moon knight and the like.
*batman.
sorry, typing this from a phone and the auto correct doesn't recognize batman.
+nerdsync I happy u mentioned that krypton calendar may be completely different then earth's 365 days in a earth year but maybe theirs is different because we have no idea at least I have no idea how many days it takes krypton to circle their sun would love to know tho hint hint future video maybe lol also the man that has everything which u touch on briefly was in the cartoon also I believe it was justice League unlimited one of my favorite don't remember if they mentioned the date but batman gets him cash lol best gift ever lol
The source in the description goes into much more detail about the Kryptonian calendar system. And I almost included the JLU cartoon episode, but this was already running long for a Tie-In.
So with that second Superman story (the one where he tries out Kryptonite immunity,) has Superman's birthday on June 12th. That's pretty cool as that's my birthday too!
Glad you referenced American Alien, its the only Superman comic I actually really like..
My birthday war yesterday ( Feb. 25)
*was
+MyHandsAreStuck And mine is tomorrow.
+FuzzyDalek same
+FuzzyDalek nice you share a birthday with pokémon
+MyHandsAreStuck happy belated birthday hope it was great!
today is also my birthday.....you really got my hopes up there......should a held off on this video til the 29th to not get my hopes up so much.....oh well. at least I get Fuller House
Feb 29th is definitely my favorite date for superman's birthday, just one of those nice dates that really stick out
i REMEMBER the old John Byrne "MAN OF STEEL" Minseries mentioned that Super Man Was Actually BORN on Earth as the Rocket was actually a Gestation Pod (this was alluded to in the "GODS AND MONSTERS MOVIE" so His Actual Birthday IS The Day He Crashed on Earth PS this also helped make super Man an American Citizen instead of an "illegal Alien) which was a story plot used in the older comics.
Thanks for that info. I'm gonna try to find and read that now
+Norman Miller Interesting! Thanks!
When you mention the 28th of febuary I got so excited, that's my birthday!
OmegaBlue mine 11th of february
you should make a video about how cyclop's laser glasses work.
In the episode of the Adventures of Superman "Superman on Earth" Pa Kent died on April 10th, 25 years to the day they found Kal-El.
I remember in season 2 ep of Smallville they had this similar question about Clark's birthday
lols today is my bday. I waited to watch this video today ... worth it
Haha, superman always has an inconsistent birthday, but Batman’s is February 29th, same as mine!
A note on what you say about cover dates, in the Marvel Year by Year a Visual Chronicle (www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1409378888) I read that you can't rely on the cover dates to date comics, this is because they actually refer to when they should be taken off the shelves, rather than when they were to be first sold. Hence why the Christmas editions have 'Feb' on them rather than 'Dec'
Actually my birthday.. Thanks man. Appreciate it.
Well maybe in Metropolis they have 3 months of Christmas instead of 12 days as in the song, although it seems they started talking about it in October and kids go back to school from Christmas vacation in January. Okay so now days they call it Winter break instead of Christmas.
"Read between the panels" isn't really working for me. Got any other ones?
+JP Kloess I like, but to each their own
It's fine, but I feel like it could be better.
It reminds me of 'Super'
+JP Kloess Give it some time. It might grow on you.
My birthday is Monday, but I'm celebrating tomorrow so I was like "no, your so close to my birthday, why!
This is kind of cool. Supes may have been born on Feb 28. That is also my birthday. And read between the panels great tagline for the channel.
ayy we were born on the same day
I share a birthday with Superman! also I'm wearing a Superman shirt so that's fun
HahA! Coincidentally, watching this on June 18. Happy Birthday Superman!!
i think in smallville his birthday was on october
my birthday was yesterday Feb 25 too man 😂
should have posted this a day later so it lines up with Pokémon's birthday.
Well I dont know when superman birthday is anyways awesome video I enjoyed.
My birthday was 4 days ago. So close enough. Thanks.
My birthday was the 27th. One day off, next year? Coolness.
Do an episode on Modok
Holy Crap!!! My birthday is actually today!!! You psychic you.
I gonna have to watch this again on my birthday so I can (aleast pretend to) be amazed
5:55 Actually, Secret Origin is the most recent, and official canon origin story for Superman.
On Lois and Clark the Kents found him on May 17. I also noticed on the calendar Kraypton blew up on June 16, the day George Reeves died of a supposed suicide but personally I believe it was murder.
Seeing as how it was the early years of comics and a bunch of people changed things and it probably didn't seem that important at that time it doesn't seem strange that superman's birthday would be so confusing.
i like the june 18th idea. i like sharing a bday with the man of steel
Thats cool when i started this video it was my birthday but then it turned 00:03 of february 28 when looked
Omg this video came out on my birthday February 26
you missed my b-day by 5 days XD mine is on march 2
Has your camera gotten better, or am I just finally seeing a video in 4K?
My birthday is on the 28th, you got it wrong Scott!
I don't have access to old DC comics, so I can't check the context myself, but did the June 10 one really involve a birthday party? In the panel at 2:50, where Superman is cutting a cake, the banner behind them says "Happy Anniversary," not "Happy Birthday."
+NerdSync I always figured Superman's birthday was in June. Whatever day Action Comics #1 introduced Superman to the world in 1938 would be his birth date; regardless of how old he is. (Exception being Smallville, where October 18th, 1989 was Clark Kent's birthday. Coincidentally, Smallville premiered on October 18th, 2001).
HOWEVER, I do think it is in canon that Mr. Mxylptlik's birthday is February 29th.
My understanding of Coverdates was that they exist as a kind of expiry date for periodicals? The expectation being that when the coverdate was reached, it was time to pull the unsold copies of the shelf and return them to the publishers for a refund?
Some of the editing seems out of order. Particularly when you mentioned the Leap Day explanation early
Hey Scott, what's your opinion on the Iron Fist casting/controversy?
I am gonna watch this on my birthday
i love the tie
Thank you! It's one of my favorites!
Can you make the spanish subtitles for your videos? I love your videos, but I speak Spanish
My birthday got mentioned :D
In BATMAN / SUPERMAN # 3 - Nanopolis, It says Superman and Alfred Pennyworth has the same birthday.
What's Alfred's birthday?
Happy bday siperman
Maybe feb 29th is when he was born and the fluxuating date is when he landed? Since the reboots often shift ages around and the the kents are farmers, they might not be in the right place at the right time some years so the rocket comes at a different time of year to match with when the kents will be. This mght also be why the rocket crashes somewhere different in almost every retelling. From on hte side of the road closer to an orpahnage than the kents home to smack dab in the middle of the kents barn.
June 18 is the same day I crash landed on earth!
at first I thought it was kind of funny that my birthday is the day that Krypton blew up, but I wonder if they made it that day because that was the date that George Reeves died.
1:35 in secret wars they claim one issue is from may but the conclusion is from April
I was born on june 18th. I HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS SUPERMAN!!!
+Doctorks I was born on june 16th. The day Krypton was destroyed...
godscalledwayne oh gosh... i'm sorry
Doctorks Hey that's my b day too :)
3:12 that's my birthday
Does that one episode of JLU (For the Man Who Has Everything) state Supe's birthday? I haven't seen the episode in forever
wow, it actually my birthday!
6:00 Superman American alien isn't canon to the current continuity? Are you sure about this because it does seem to make a ton of references to current day DC characters. It even has Clark having his first ever meeting with big names like Oliver before he became green arrow Lex Luthor and even has him meeting Batman for the very first time (in what looked an awful lot like his original costume from 1939).
3 videos within the first hour in a row.. What what!?
You are a master at this!
I am new in this channel, but I already love your videos...but to be honest I didn't watched this one, cause I really don't care about Superman at all...
I just wanted to post this coment on the most recent video.
What I really want to say here is, I would very much enjoy some video about Spawn. He is my favorite comic book character of all time (Batman is second), and I know that he is not as famous as DC or Marvel characters, but I think that his stories have much potential to make interesting videos, especially if they are made by you.
My birthday was yesterday, so close.
February 29th makes sense to me... only someone born on leap day could leap over buildings in a single bound.
Ironically, my birthday is two days after this video aired