Super-man Super-man Saint Joseph Academy Category="Comics characters"The Super-Man is a character created by Cartoonist Chris Ware. Not to be confused with Superman, Ware's antihero wears a similar caped costume, but also has a domino mask and receding hairline. The Super-Man originally appeared as God in Ware's early work, wreaking Old Testament vengeance on people who annoyed him. The Super-Man later turned up in Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth as an assumedly unseen mentor (This term is too generous, however. If anything, the Super-Man represented Jimmy's id, telling him to shoplift, hit on women, and so on). In a particularly poignant scene, Jimmy sees the Super-Man standing on the cornice of a Skyscraper. Seeing Jimmy, he waves, to Jimmy's delight. The Super-Man then crouches as if to take off flying, but instead falls to his death. It is easy to perceive the Super-Man's purpose as a Metaphorical stand-in for Jimmy's long-absent father.

In a current series of strips appearing in the Chicago Reader, the Super-Man is seen walking about naked, eating a live deer, stealing money, killing people who annoy him, kidnapping a young girl and living with her in the wild until she grows up, whereupon he impregnates her, grows bored with her and the child, then flies off. He then spends the next several million years in one spot, pondering it all even as the Earth falls away about him. His last thought remains of the girl and his child. Ware has said in interviews that he imagines that if Superman were real, he would do much the same. Once again, he represents id, but now he seems to have developed a conscience.