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!