"When Superman was created during the Great Depression, he was the champion of the oppressed and fought on the side of the working man. He was lawless. If you were a wife beater, heād throw you out the window. If you were a corrupt congressman, heād swing you from the rooftops until you confessed. I think it appealed to people who were losing their jobs to machines: Suddenly you had Superman wrecking machines and punching robots. But his popularity has declinedānobody wants to be the son of a farmer now. American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say heās too powerful; you canāt give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Supermanās relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But itās still a story about your relatives visiting."
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Grant Morrison, Playboy Magazine (May 2012) as quoted by "Grant Morrison: āBatman Is Very, Very Gayā", Andy Hunsaker, Craveonline.com Apr 26, 2012.
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