Communist SuperHero?

[Huelguista]

I remember seeing a communist superhero (not the Stalin vs. hitler thing.) somewhere, but cant seem to find it again..anyone know what im talking about?

[WUOrevolt]

Could this be it?

http://www.popmatters.com/comics/images/superman-red-son-1.jpg

[Trent Steele]

There was a stand-alone comic of what it would have been like if Superman was a communist (had crash-landed in the Ukraine instead of Kansas). It's quite good, though some here may object to it on it's portrayal of the USSR and US.

Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_Red_Son)

[zero_ware]

The "Red Son" comic looks pretty interesting.
Thanks

[Cult of Reason]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Supermanred.png

Look! He is giving the Fascist salute!

[TC]

A quick google search revealed that, oddly enough, Marvel Comics had a series of Communist super-heros called 'Red Guardian':

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/redgrd3.jpg

http://www.marveldirectory.com/pics/picsr/redguardian.gif

http://www.dragonhero.com/graphics/marvel2/red-guardian3.jpg


DC Comics also, again weirdly enough, had a Communist super-hero called 'Red Star':

http://www.titanstower.com/assets/whos%20who/aamembers/whosbinder/redstar.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/TT2038.jpg

http://www.titanstower.com/assets/recroom/tradingcards/VScards/redstarVS.jpg

[newcommunist]

Hey,all the comic look cool.can we started collecthing them and post it all at the site so we all read it?

[TC]

"Boris Kirov: Soviet Superhero"

http://images.salon.com/comics/dark/4/dream/2000/05/src/18dream08.jpg

[Huelguista]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 01:19 PM
Hey,all the comic look cool.can we started collecthing them and post it all at the site so we all read it?
Or someone could pin a thread under the graphics topic with a few links to different sites....suggesting they have the comics themselves up.

[Red Heretic]

Anyone ever heard of the comic book series called The Red Star?

At first when I read them I thought they were Anti-Communist, but not I understand they are actually Anti-Revisionist, and pro-Communist revolution.

The story basically uses fictional characters who represent real historical characters to tell the story of capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union under Khruschev, but in the altrenate history, the proletariat rises up in revolution to restore socialism.

I'll post some photos....

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/2938/redstar6017ov.jpg

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/9128/redstar6037dh.jpg

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2461/redstar04080sc.jpg

They are availible for purchase here (http://www.mycomicshop.com/megastore/search?pcat=Comics%2DAll&til=13265)

[midnight marauder]

Marvel Comics, especially during the cold war, had tons of so called "communist" characters. Although most seem to be one time characters, a lot of them went on to become major reoccuring heroes/villains. These include:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Omega10.jpg/255px-Omega10.jpg

Omega Red, the KGB equivolent to Captain America (although he's more of a soviet drone than an actual communist)

and, probably most famously,

http://www.menshealth.gr/id/files/590/w_XMEN~comic~Colossus%20Wolverine%20Beast%20Gambit .jpg

Xmen superhero Colossus, who while (of course) was never shown as an outright communist, shows tons of signs of his idealogy, listed all over the internet. There was even a time where, albeint under Acade, I think) where he assumed the identity of "The Proletarian." Check this out:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Realm/6198/X-Men/Colossus2.gif

:lol:

Unfortunately, I think most "communists" in the comic world are Soviet supervillains, but this thread is awesome. I can't wait to check out some of these comics.

Oh, and if you're interested in other Soviet Marvel characters, check out this site: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/apprus.htm

[ComradeOm]

Funnily enough I was just thinking about this the other day. I doubt that any of those "heroes" were communist but who doesn't look good in red spandex? The devil has the best tunes and all that

[Jesus Christ!]

http://www.mvps.org/st-software/Movie_Collection/images/5258f.jpg

Also Omega red was the answer to wolverine not to capt america.

[Jesus Christ!]

http://www.mvps.org/st-software/Movie_Collection/images/5258f.jpg

Also Omega red was the answer to wolverine not to captin america.

[FinnMacCool]

Originally posted by Jesus Christ!@May 17 2006, 05:36 PM
http://www.mvps.org/st-software/Movie_Collection/images/5258f.jpg

Also Omega red was the answer to wolverine not to capt america.
Robin Hood's not communist. Its true he stole from the rich and gave to the poor but he was only doing it until King Richard came back, and then they would give it all back to him. Not exactly socialism.

[Body Count]

Red Heretic, that Red Star comic looks interesting, is there only 11 issues of it?

[subcal]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 11:20 AM
"Boris Kirov: Soviet Superhero"

http://images.salon.com/comics/dark/4/dream/2000/05/src/18dream08.jpg
now those would be a nice set of pyjamas!

[Rollo]

Originally posted by Red [email protected] 12 2006, 12:48 PM
Anyone ever heard of the comic book series called The Red Star?

At first when I read them I thought they were Anti-Communist, but not I understand they are actually Anti-Revisionist, and pro-Communist revolution.

The story basically uses fictional characters who represent real historical characters to tell the story of capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union under Khruschev, but in the altrenate history, the proletariat rises up in revolution to restore socialism.



They are availible for purchase here (http://www.mycomicshop.com/megastore/search?pcat=Comics%2DAll&til=13265)
How did you not know they were communist? She has a hammer and sickle ( literally ) on her back and a red star on a uhanaka on her head :P.

[ZeroPain]

Anyone know where I can download the redstar series?

[Rollo]

I'de also like to be able to read that series, looks top notch.

[Comrade J]

Originally posted by Rollo+Jul 28 2006, 04:52 AM--> (Rollo @ Jul 28 2006, 04:52 AM)
Red [email protected] 12 2006, 12:48 PM
Anyone ever heard of the comic book series called The Red Star?

At first when I read them I thought they were Anti-Communist, but not I understand they are actually Anti-Revisionist, and pro-Communist revolution.

The story basically uses fictional characters who represent real historical characters to tell the story of capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union under Khruschev, but in the altrenate history, the proletariat rises up in revolution to restore socialism.



They are availible for purchase here (http://www.mycomicshop.com/megastore/search?pcat=Comics%2DAll&til=13265)
How did you not know they were communist? She has a hammer and sickle ( literally ) on her back and a red star on a uhanaka on her head :P. [/b]
Anti-Communist propaganda can still feature communists.

[Red Heretic]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 28 2006, 08:43 PM
Anti-Communist propaganda can still feature communists.
Well Makita (the girl with the hammer and sickle on her back) is one of the stories protagonists. The story feature alot of different characters who begin as ordinary people but aspire to be much more. It's a different kind of comic series than the traditional "Super man saves the day! The masses would be helpless without superman!" bullshit.

Other main characters include a Soviet soldier who died for the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, but is brought back from the dead to smash Soviet revisionism and restore socialism. He's a total badass.

As for Makita, who I mentioned earlier, she is a guerilla in Hungary 1956, when Hungary rebelled against the rise of Khruschev and Soviet revisionism.

[Red Heretic]

By the way, this is sort of off topic, but anyone who is interested in The Red Star comics should also check out The Red Star video game for XBOX. It was never released because the publisher, Acclaim, went out of business one week before the games launch.

I honestly think it is one of the best video games I've ever played in my life, and the revolutionary artwork is stunning.

Even though the game never came out, it did leak out to many people. Anyone who would like to get ahold of a copy for their xbox can PM me or send me an IM on AIM, and I'll try to hook you up.

[Rollo]

Could I use alcohol to .iso it and play it? I'de love to.

[MichaelCollins]

Originally posted by Comrade J+Jul 28 2006, 08:43 PM--> (Comrade J @ Jul 28 2006, 08:43 PM)
Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2006, 04:52 AM

Red [email protected] 12 2006, 12:48 PM
Anyone ever heard of the comic book series called The Red Star?

At first when I read them I thought they were Anti-Communist, but not I understand they are actually Anti-Revisionist, and pro-Communist revolution.

The story basically uses fictional characters who represent real historical characters to tell the story of capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union under Khruschev, but in the altrenate history, the proletariat rises up in revolution to restore socialism.



They are availible for purchase here (http://www.mycomicshop.com/megastore/search?pcat=Comics%2DAll&til=13265)
How did you not know they were communist? She has a hammer and sickle ( literally ) on her back and a red star on a uhanaka on her head :P.
Anti-Communist propaganda can still feature communists. [/b]
Its best if it does. How else would the audience know "the enemy?" There were lots of commies in "Red Dawn"

[MichaelCollins]

Why do all these super heros look like Arno Breker sculptures? Are they Soviet or something?

[Zero]

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/627635/The_Red_Star

^^^ is a torrent for The Red Star comic books. 135 MB. The extension .cbr is a .rar extension especially built for comic books.

[Rollo]

Thanks zero, these comics are tops. Hard to find a comic retailer around here and I have no credit card.

[Zero]

Click below for image, CAUTION: It's big!

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/6091/redstar010910kr9.jpg



Black Dagger: Zero, can you please post large images as links or thumbnails? Preferably the latter, many people access the site with dial-up connections. Thank you.

[ZeroPain]

^^^ is a torrent for The Red Star comic books. 135 MB. The extension .cbr is a .rar extension especially built for comic books.

Thank you :)

[emma_goldman]

PINKO COMMIE MAN!!!!!!! :lol:

I remember an anti-communist Batman comic.

Ha.

V for Vendetta is about anarchism.

[Rollo]

The game Half Life 2 is actually anti communist.

[ZeroPain]

Communist aliens?

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2006, 07:04 AM
The game Half Life 2 is actually anti communist.
Anti-Stalinist you mean? And even then, I think that's a bit far-fetched...

[Rollo]

It's almost as if it were made to make communists seem evil. Ok a super power appears out of nowhere using the portal storm and the resonance cascade etc. They are not really a any species because they are all integrated and mixed using the technology, they take all the resources along with killing and opressing people. It kinda reminded me about all the things I herd of post WW2 USSR.

[Red Heretic]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2006, 01:57 PM
It's almost as if it were made to make communists seem evil. Ok a super power appears out of nowhere using the portal storm and the resonance cascade etc. They are not really a any species because they are all integrated and mixed using the technology, they take all the resources along with killing and opressing people. It kinda reminded me about all the things I herd of post WW2 USSR.
Uhh... sounds more like the USA.

[Jamal]

^^Yeah, its the country that produced it!

[Jamal]

I remember seeing a communist superhero (not the Stalin vs. hitler thing.) somewhere, but cant seem to find it again..anyone know what im talking about?

Maybe this is it.

[ZeroPain]

The torrent stops right before the climatic battle, any idea where to get the rest?

[Solitary Mind]

A Communist Superman...imagine it...well i have one of the Red Son issues...Batmans an anarchist though...

[Red Heretic]

Originally posted by Solitary [email protected] 6 2006, 09:53 PM
Batmans an anarchist though...
Dude. Batman is a fucking super-rich capitalist who is trying to defend his investments.

[Solitary Mind]

Originally posted by Red Heretic+Aug 6 2006, 11:24 PM--> (Red Heretic @ Aug 6 2006, 11:24 PM)
Solitary [email protected] 6 2006, 09:53 PM
Batmans an anarchist though...
Dude. Batman is a fucking super-rich capitalist who is trying to defend his investments. [/b]
Not in the comic book series...he's an Anarchist in the Red Son series...

[ichneumon]

any chance of getting a close up of the superman hammer and sickle?

[stev]

who was that bloke in communist Russia who worked really hard, and so they named an award after him to give to those who worked especially hard in the USSR thereafter? I know it's nowt to do with cartoons but I can't remember his name and its pissing me off now.

[Marukusu]

who was that bloke in communist Russia who worked really hard, and so they named an award after him to give to those who worked especially hard in the USSR thereafter? I know it's nowt to do with cartoons but I can't remember his name and its pissing me off now.

Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov. The workers where called "stakhanovites".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Grigorievich_Stakhanov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite

[Red Heretic]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2006, 01:32 PM
who was that bloke in communist Russia who worked really hard, and so they named an award after him to give to those who worked especially hard in the USSR thereafter? I know it's nowt to do with cartoons but I can't remember his name and its pissing me off now.
There was also a similar icon in the People's Republic of China named Lei Feng.

[stev]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2006, 05:53 PM

who was that bloke in communist Russia who worked really hard, and so they named an award after him to give to those who worked especially hard in the USSR thereafter? I know it's nowt to do with cartoons but I can't remember his name and its pissing me off now.

Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov. The workers where called "stakhanovites".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Grigorievich_Stakhanov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite
Ah thanks mate, that was really starting to annoy me!

[atlas]

Mario is a commy superhero!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGumf9IL3OY

[OneBrickOneVoice]

ya I think we had a thread somewhere where someone posted an article on it. Ah! here's the article link http://www.aethiamud.org/communist_mario/

[Tower of Bebel]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2006, 04:06 AM
Mario is a commy superhero!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGumf9IL3OY
Hmmm, what's that music :) ?

[Marukusu]

Hmmm, what's that music ?

It is "Farewell of Slavianka" or Proshchanie Slavianki, actually a Russian patriotic march that was so closely associated with the czar and the russian whites that it was more or less illegal in the Soviet Union until 1957. After that, it became extremely popular, if not the the most popular march in the Soviet Union and it is still very popular in present day Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_of_Slavianka

[Tower of Bebel]

Thank you :)

[Honggweilo]

Hehehe great comics, this was certainly amusing :D. I've been searching for Red Star issues online for a while now... coulndt find anything.


So Red Heretic, feel like scanning some stuff in to *.pdf :P?

ow and something else..

http://superman.ws/tales2/2001/3.gif

Why are the Americans flying a Mi 32 and the Soviets a Chinook :wacko: ?

[dannie]

i found this at the local union, they use these to "recruit" young militants

[Rockambole]

Well, there is Octobriana, the Spirit of October's Revolution. She was made behind the Iron Courtain by a organization called Progressive Political Pornography (PPP).

She fights against opression an for the TRUE COMMUNISM.

[scarletghoul]

http://images.salon.com/comics/dark/4/dream/2000/05/src/18dream08.jpgHaha, "the return of Running Dog" what a cool villain name

[Guerrilla22]

Crimson Dynamo: the USSR's answer to Iron Man

http://www.marvel.com/universe3zx/images/thumb/2/2d/Yuricrimson.jpg/440px-Yuricrimson.jpg (http://www.marvel.com/universe/Image:Yuricrimson.jpg)

[scarletghoul]

pol pot is the only hero we need

[Dr Mindbender]

Well, there is Octobriana, the Spirit of October's Revolution. She was made behind the Iron Courtain by a organization called Progressive Political Pornography (PPP).

She fights against opression an for the TRUE COMMUNISM.

Necromancer.:rolleyes: