Stereotypes In Superman Red Sun

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They year is 2004 and Darwin, Kant and Mao have just finished reading DC comics’ latest instalment in the Superman franchise, Superman Red Sun. They are not the famous historical figures they became instead, they are 25 years old getting their graduate degrees and became friends as a result of an art history class they took together at Université de Genève in Switzerland. Regardless of that they still have the same ideologies that they are known for, but are just sharing it in their own little book club. They are basically your turn of the century comic book and star wars loving geeks. In this conversation is their mutual friend Athena who not only keeps formed the book club as a way to have different minds converge and, but also keeps the

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