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    Superman: True Brit

    Superman: True Brit by Kim Howard Johnson and John Cleese Illustrator: John Byrne Format: Original Graphic Novel TPB Published: 2004 Publisher: DC Comics What if Superman had landed in southern England and not Kansas? Well, John Cleese and Kim Howard Johnson figure he’d grow up a bit embarrassed, never quite get anything right, and gradually become a mark of shame for his parents. The entire comic is essentially a rant against the English media and tabloid journalism, which I can get behind. We follow our hero, re-imagined as Colin Clark, through childhood and university until he eventually begins to work for the English tabloids, pressured into writing false pieces about…