Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 195: Brainiac Appears

LaGuardia is obviously very tempted by Colin's campaign ideas.

Therefore, on the second day after the meeting, he announced his political views through the mayor's campaign headquarters in New York, promising to crack down on corruption and organized crime in New York, and to investigate Tammany Association's corruption cases. Build public housing to improve housing conditions in slums.

LaGuardia's straight-ball campaign naturally aroused dissatisfaction among many people, including the Democratic Party, among which the Tammany Association reacted most strongly.

After all, the other party has already said by name that they will thoroughly investigate the fraud case of the Tammany Association.

On the same day, the Tammany Association issued a statement, saying that this was a false accusation and an "ugly trick" by LaGuardia for the mayoral campaign of New York.The Tammany Association has always been working hard to improve the political ecology and economic problems of New York City. The threat of LaGuardia will not make the Tammany Association retreat.

At the same time, the Tammany Association also pointed out in the statement that LaGuardia, as a member of the Republican Party, undoubtedly supports Hoover's policies. Once he becomes mayor, the entire New York City will fall into the second "Great Depression" disaster— — 'Men and women will lose their jobs and become homeless on the streets. '

"There's no dedicated Republican way of cleaning up the trash!"

This is LaGuardia's response in the special issue of the "Daily Courier" that afternoon.

"What New York City needs is to make changes to the poor law and order and corruption in front of us, instead of arguing who is a Democrat and who is a Republican. Jimmy Walker is the mayor of New York elected by the Democrats, but he is the mayor of New York. What the city brings, massive corruption and a whole lot of mess, Democrats have been in New York long enough, it's time for someone else to try it out, there is no dedicated Republican way of cleaning up the trash, same New York City is not a must for the Democrats..."

"What we are discussing here is not who has contributed to New York, but the need for a new mayor who can really change New York's current economic order!"

In the newspaper, LaGuardia used a tough attitude to express his firm will for the mayor of New York.

At the same time, the release of this news also means that the "Daily Courier" represented by Ke Lin has officially joined the battle for mayor election.

Everyone can see that in this New York mayoral election, the Courier newspaper stands behind the Republican LaGuardia.

Later, the "World Journal" pointed out in its editorial: "LaGuardia is just a theorist who can talk nonsense. He didn't have anything to show when he was a member of the House of Representatives. Why should he believe that such an existence can become a representative? Good mayor of New York City, he may be the 'next Hoover' of New York City."

During the Great Depression, Hoover clearly became a negative label in the Republican campaign.

Everyone hates Hoover, which is a general consensus in society.

Among them, Colin's "Daily Courier" more or less played a role in fueling the flames.

Facing the news commentary of the "World Journal", the "Daily Courier" was also not to be outdone and counterattacked: "Choosing the Democratic Party is equivalent to choosing the Tammany Society!"

On one side is the incompetent next Hoover, and on the other is the corrupt Tammany Society.

No matter how they choose, the citizens of New York seem to see no shred of hope.

It's still some time before the actual New York mayoral race, and even later than the presidential election.

Therefore, the current debate between the two sides is only at the stage of the war of words in the media.

While expressing support for LaGuardia's mayor's campaign, the "Daily Courier" mercilessly expressed its opposition to Hoover's re-election campaign: "We don't have chickens in the pot, we don't even have a pot!"

This is the slogan that was widely circulated in the "Daily Courier" later.

The content is to mock Hoover's promise during the presidential campaign: "Every American has a chicken in every pot, and every family has a car."

At that time, Hoover obviously did not think that his promise would be shattered by the Great Depression.

The slogan adapted by the "Daily Courier" not only reminded the public of the promise made by Hoover at the time, but also gave them an outlet to vent their more dissatisfaction with the Great Depression.

The "Daily Courier" also took advantage of the upsurge of the general election to successfully develop from a previously criticized comic newspaper to credibility and authority.

This is undoubtedly a good development direction for a newspaper.

Of course, in addition to the political and social news reports, Colin also did not forget the arrangement of the serialization of "Superman".

In the daily issue of the "Daily Courier", he will intersperse short comic strips in it to remind readers of Superman's attention.

At the same time, every Wednesday and weekend, it continues to consolidate Superman's popularity through long-form serialization.

For example, in the latest weekend series, there are new villains on the scene.

Louise: "Clark, I'm a little nervous..."

Clark: "Don't worry too much, Louise, you just treat this as a normal long-distance trip."

Louise: "But this time we're going to outer space."

At the beginning of the story, Louise and Clark became the experiencers of an experimental manned rocket, and went to outer space with other members.

Although in this period, the technology of manned spacecraft has not yet been developed, but the fantasy of spaceflight has been formed for a long time.As early as the end of the 19th century, Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky published a science fiction novel called "On the Moon" in order to introduce his spaceflight theory.

In his early papers on manned spaceflight, he also described in detail the entire process of manned spacecraft from launch to orbit, making readers of his novels feel as if they were on a spaceship. It is also an advanced imagination of manned spaceflight.

Of course, in the comics, the whole process is more concise and clear.

Colin only used the content of two frames to describe the scene of Superman and Louise flying out of space in a spaceship.

In the serial plot, with just one grid jump, the spacecraft flew over 1 miles in the sky, breaking various records.

But somehow, the animals aboard the rocket became agitated, and then the pilot of the spaceship let out an exclamation when they spotted a pink UFO shooting some sort of ray at them.

Louise: "What's the matter, Clark?"

Clark: "Nothing, maybe a little dizzy."

Super hearing heard the exclamation of the pilot, Clark used his perspective ability to see, and found that all this happened in the flying object was caused by a green-skinned alien and his white pet monkey named Koko. The aliens mistakenly thought that the rocket was sent by the earth to stop them.

The appearance of aliens plunged the entire spacecraft into chaos.

Clark also pretended to be panicked, and took his space suit and supersonic jet to escape back to Earth.

Jumping out of the spaceship in a space suit, the next second Clark changed into Superman behind a small meteorite to fight off the UFO.

Superman: "This helmet is a bit of a hassle? Maybe I can..."

Putting on his uniform, Superman wearing a helmet felt that his vision was somewhat obstructed, and then he took a deep breath, took off his helmet and kept holding his breath in the universe.

Flying in front of the flying object, Superman wanted to stop the opponent's attack, but found that there was a force field protecting the flying object, making it difficult for him to approach for a while.

Seeing this, Superman turned to the rocket where Louise was without hesitation, and used his super speed to push the rocket out of the range of the ray.

After seeing this scene, the alien in the flying object was not angry, but said that he had other plans for the earth
Then, later in the story, this bald green-skinned alien in the flying object took the tubes and inflated many bottles, and then he opened some kind of sight, aimed at Paris, and pressed After pressing the button in his hand, Paris in this frame in the comic is shrouded in orange light.

In the distance, an American plane bound for Paris approached, only to find that Paris, the symbol, had disappeared.

Pilot: "OMG, Paris is gone!"

Alien: "Very good, nice building, very earth-like."

At the same time, the alien on the other side looked at Paris in the bottle, with a satisfied smile on his green-skinned face.It turned out that the force field released by the aliens shrank Paris and sucked it into the bottle prepared in advance.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Superman is slowly sending the rocket back to the earth in space, but suddenly his super vision finds that Paris on the earth has disappeared, and then he sees the mysterious green-skinned alien in the alien flying object facing the Paris in a bottle delights.

At the same time, in this frame of comics, the source of this mysterious alien is also explained.

It turns out that the planet of this alien has suffered catastrophe, and now he wants to pack up the great cities of the earth and transport them back to rebuild the mother star so that he can rule by himself.

Watching the scene where the aliens keep collecting cities, Superman is distraught, but also frustrated by his inability to break through the man's force field.

During this time, the aliens in the flying objects successively collected many cities through their own devices.

Alien: "Yes, Venice, I like water, what is this, a strange animal without a nose? And what is this long building?"

On the one hand, the aliens kept shrinking the various cities and buildings on the earth. On the other hand, these cities have oxygen supply to ensure the survival of the personnel. At this time, the aliens on the flying object had a whim again. He looked at the bottle. City, I suddenly want to try whether the bridge in Manhattan is strong or not.

Then, under the gaze of Superman.

The alien picked up a stick and poked it in through the mouth of the bottle. It shook the Manhattan Bridge a few times. The sturdy bridge had no resistance in the hands of the alien, and was instantly twisted into a strange shape.

Alien: "Looks like the Manhattan Bridge isn't as strong as I thought it would be."

Looking at the fragile Manhattan Bridge in the bottle, the alien said with some disappointment.

Meanwhile, Superman in outer space sees the alien taking other structures out of the bottle to study.

It stopped its own spaceship, let the cosmic rays recharge it, and at the same time flew out of the spaceship, and began to move in outer space.

Superman: "Now!"

Seeing this scene, Superman quickly took the opportunity to fly towards the alien, wanting to take advantage of the opponent's lack of position protection to defeat it and rescue the person in the bottle, but unexpectedly the alien has a portable position generator , the heat rays fired from Superman's eyes were bounced back, almost accidentally hurting himself.

In desperation, Superman could only throw the stone cone at the alien, but the stone cone was obviously useless, and Superman was ridiculed by the alien named Brainiac instead.

Seeing this, Superman used his great power to hurl bigger and bigger stones at Blanick and his spaceship time and time again until the entire planet was exhausted.

Brainiac: "Haha, it's useless, your attack can't even hurt me."

But even so, under the protection of the stand, Brainiac still did not suffer any harm. For this reason, he laughed, Superman's useless efforts.

Superman: "I can't breathe enough!"

Seeing that his attack had no effect, and Superman started to lack oxygen, he had no choice but to leave. Seeing his back flying away, Blanik kept mocking him.

And all this was seen by Louise on the nearby spaceship, and Louise was also surprised that Superman would take the initiative to escape during the battle.

In this way, the rocket returned to the earth, and Louise hurried back to the "Daily Courier" to write the story just now, and happened to meet Superman who also returned to the earth and changed back to Clark, and told him about it.

Clark: "Louise, I'm so lucky that nothing happened to you. I contacted them to rescue you as soon as I returned to Earth."

Louise: "Now is not the time to discuss spaceships, Clark. We are in danger. Aliens are about to attack the earth. We must prepare immediately."

Clark: "Ready, what preparation?"

Louise: "Just to tell everyone to..."

Just as Louise was describing what she saw in the universe, suddenly the building next to the "Daily Courier" began to shake, and then Clark pointed to the huge tweezers outside and exclaimed.

Clark: "What's that?"

Louise: "It's too late!"

Seeing this scene, Louise felt desperate. Unknowingly, the metropolis was also collected by Brainiac, and the scene in the sky made Louise feel that even Superman could not save them. .

On the other hand, Superman disguised as Clark didn't think so. He pretended to escape in space, but in fact he was waiting for Brainiac to collect the metropolis. Only in this way could he enter the spaceship.

Changing back to his clothes, Superman wanted to escape from the bottle, but he didn't wait for him to fly out.

Brainiac in the spaceship used a particularly hard metal to stop the bottle containing the metropolis.

bang——

Superman: "What is this?"

(End of this chapter)