Instead of landing in Kansas as a child, I've decided to explore what could have happened if his rocket would have landed on a collective farm in the Soviet Union. īy 1992, he had already developed many of the plot points: Īs I got older, I started putting everything together and I first pitched something to DC when I was thirteen, I think - although it was in a much cruder form, of course, and my drawings weren't quite up to scratch. As a kid growing up in the shadow of the Cold War, the notion of what might have happened if the Soviets had reached him first just seemed fascinating to me. It was an imaginary story where Superman's rocket landed in neutral waters between the USA and the USSR and both sides were rushing to claim the baby. Red Son is based on a thought that flitted through my head when I read Superman #300 as a six-year-old. The ideas that made up the story came together over a long stretch of time. As an adult he becomes a state-sponsored superhero whose civilian identity is kept a state secret, and who in Soviet radio broadcasts, is described not as fighting for "truth, justice, and the American Way", but as "the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact". In Red Son, Superman's rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas. The series spans approximately 1953–2001, save for a futuristic epilogue. The story mixes alternate versions of DC super-heroes with alternate-reality versions of real political figures such as Joseph Stalin and John F.
Author Mark Millar created the comic with the premise "What if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union?" It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2004 Eisner Award for best limited series. Superman: Red Son is a three-issue prestige format comic book mini-series published by DC Comics that was released under their Elseworlds imprint in 2003.
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