Cartoon Times 4B 25 March, 2015 It’s showtime: Christopher Dennis sets his hair before posing for photographs on Hollywood Blvd. All photos by: Robert Hanashiro Is there anything more iconic in the superhero movie world than the blue tights, red briefs and cape of the Man of Steel? I don’t think so. Any director wanting to make a movie based on the legendary hero absolutely must keep to the original concept of the suit. Any deviation, like making the cape green and the tights purple, or dropping the cape altogether, would make the character, well, not Superman. Just like Schumacher gave us bat nipples, Bryan Singer gave us the Calvin Klein Superman outfit. The blue tights were fine and the darkening of the red in the outfit really wasn’t enough to make the costume bad. What really made this replication bad were the low-rise briefs, short boots and small raised “S” on his chest and belt. Take away the blue tights and it would look like Superman was ready to swim the freestyle medley next to Michael Phelps. Due to a somewhat disjointed continuity, several versions of Bizarro have appeared in DC comic books, all of them inversions of Superman with gray or chalk-white skin, a twisted sense of logic which typically manifests as a superficial “opposite” of anything Superman would do. Getting ready to conquer! A sneak peak at Disneyland’s Superman Christopher Dennis getting ready for work everyday to make thousands of children smile daily. Final strokes: Dennis is very particular about setting his hair puff correctly. Getting strong: Christopher Dennis taking a lunch break in his apartment. Walking in pride!
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