::: It's only "obvious" if the cover illustration you refer to is as far as you read. If you'd read the original miniseries once, you'd get it ... He's nothing like Superman. You want to make something out of the "S"? Sure, okay ... but what about his fat fucking belly, professor? What does that mean? What about the fact that it's just a wife-beater undershirt, and not a costume at all? What about the fact that it's orange? What about him being obviously middle-aged? (That's right, kids, he wasn't always a long-haired prettyboy!) See, all this shit means something, and what it means is entirely unrelated to anything Superman's about! Or, as I put it months earlier.... 
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