American comics: You're asked to fish, but you catch a Superman template?

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Faced with the angry crowd of readers in front of the newspaper building, Xu Fu reacted rather reservedly. He explained to John, then pushed open the newspaper office door and faced the protesting crowd at the entrance.

As Xu Fu was pushed out the door, everyone in the newspaper office was stunned for a moment. Then John Jr. reacted, and John Sr. coughed and hurriedly chased after the camera on the table.

Pushing open the newspaper office door, the protests coming from behind it grew louder and louder.

Upon seeing Xu Fu appear in front of the newspaper's editorial office, the protesters held up a sign that read in large English letters: "Xu Fu: Superman can do anything!"

"Superman can get hurt..."

After saying these words, Xu Fu looked at the protesters and slowly began to speak.

"Oh~"

Undoubtedly, Xu Fu's words immediately drew boos from the audience; they were not there to listen.

Despite the backlash from all sides, Xu Fu's expression remained unchanged.

"But..."

John came out with a camera, stood behind Xu Fu, and took a picture of his back as he faced the protesters.

Meanwhile, Xu Fu, standing in front of the newspaper, raised a protest flag and continued, "...Superheroes will never fall apart!"

After Xu Fu's response, the boos from the protesters in front of the Messenger newspaper gradually subsided, and they continued to repeat Xu Fu's words, gradually replacing the original protest.

"Superheroes never give up!"

Chapter 738 Never Give Up!

"Superheroes never give up!"

Xu Fu did not respond directly, but what he said, in a sense, prompted these protesting readers to respond.

Chanting "Superheroes Never Fall," the protesters gathered in front of the newspaper office gradually dispersed. John breathed a sigh of relief, remembering that he needed to film everything that was happening.

"Superman gets hurt, but superheroes never break down!"

The following day, the Daily Messenger published on its front page Xu Fu’s words to the protesters.

The following pages also contain content from the follow-up comics about General Zod's battle with Superman.

This was reportedly because the newspaper was pressured by protesters and had to work through the night to create a new comic strip to appease the public angered by the previous storyline.

In fact, this was exactly what Xu Fu wanted.

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The new issue of the comic opens with a link to the previous issue, showing Superman getting injured there.

Rumbling sound -

Superman, struck by General Zod, crashed into a building, creating a huge crater in the ground, and blood trickled from his mouth.

Soaring through the air, General Zod looked down at the fallen Superman and said, "Now I will give you a choice, Superman."

General Zod: "As a Kryptonian, do you want me to join you in building a new Krypton on this planet, or do you want to be my enemy?"

Superman: "Krypton is destroyed. Even if a new Krypton is created on Earth, it will not be the same Krypton as before."

Standing up, Superman looked at General Zod standing in front of him and gave his answer.

General Zod: "Unfortunately, you made a wrong choice, Superman. Between Krypton and humanity, you chose the latter and betrayed your own planet."

General Zod: "My purpose in life is to protect Krypton. This has been my sole purpose since birth. Everything I have done, no matter how cruel or ruthless, even rebelling against the Council, has been for the survival of Krypton. And you, clearly a Kryptonian, have no desire to restore Krypton. Therefore, I can only consider you a traitor to Krypton and destroy you!"

Following General Zod's confession, General Zod and Superman have a fierce confrontation in the next scene.

To depict the powerful force generated by the collision of these two elements, Xu Fu chose a direct perspective from above, depicting the entire metropolis scene from above.

Of course, the artist had to put in a lot of effort to complete the coloring of this single painting.

Xu Fu even had Jacob and others work at night to complete the illustrations of battle scenes for the Messenger magazine.

Judging from the outcome shown in the comic, their hard work throughout the night was not wasted.

In an instant, Metropolis, the area surrounding Superman and General Zod, was reduced to ruins. Seeing the two of them standing amidst the ruins, even readers who were dissatisfied with the plot involving Superman's injury had to admit that General Zod was indeed a formidable opponent.

General Zod: "Since you want to save these people, I'll let you watch them die one by one!"

Superman: "You're insane, Zod. Krypton has already been destroyed. I can't let you destroy Earth again, just for some vague reason."

General Zod: "Restoring Krypton will not be in vain!"

At General Zod's roar, two red beams of light burst forth from his eyes.

Faced with General Zod's heat vision, Superman launched a counterattack without hesitation.

The collision of the two heat beams generated terrifying heat, instantly turning everything around them red.

Although this frame only uses one frame to depict the scene of thermal vision collision, it is also easy to color.

Nevertheless, the effect presented in the comic is surprisingly striking, evoking a thrilling sense of impact.

"Come on, Superman!"

"Defeat General Sade..."

Readers who witnessed this scene instinctively clenched their fists and cheered for Superman in battle.

The comics seemed to sense the readers' exclamations, as Superman's heat vision pierced through General Zod's released heat vision and struck him.

Readers who flipped through the Daily Courier article immediately began cheering for Superman.

For the first time since General Zod's debut, Superman has gained the upper hand in a battle, even if it's just a heat-vision clash, but it gives readers a chance to partially vent their pent-up emotions.

In the comic book, at the beginning, when the heat vision strikes General Zod, Superman also launches an angry counterattack.

From this point on, Xu Fu deliberately stopped describing the battle scenes between the two and instead focused on the destruction of the area surrounding the metropolis.

The two Supermen and General Zod are nowhere to be found in the obvious comic strip panels.

However, readers sitting in front of the newspaper deliberately tried to feel the intensity of the battle through the constantly destroyed buildings and various ruins.

The battle scenes were breathtaking, so spectacular that one was afraid to miss a single one; they were unforgettable moments at the time.

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The most amazing battle scene in comic book history.

In the years that followed, many readers and even professional comic artists called this issue one of the most exciting battle scenes in comic book history.

"In this four-panel comic, Xu Fu depicted an epic battle scene, and even fifty years later, such a depiction of battle is still not outdated!"

Readers who read Superman comics during the Great Depression, before the emergence of The Messenger, could not possibly have known how the comics would be viewed fifty years later.

However, this did not diminish their admiration for the battle scenes.

Xu Fu had previously depicted Superman's battles in Haiti and even space, but at the time, these were either too far removed from real life or only existed in science fiction.

In this issue, General Zod and Superman fight in a city familiar to everyone. This realistic art style makes readers who see the battle involuntarily feel transported to the scene in the comics, looking at the huge skyscrapers behind them, as if these buildings are swaying in the aftershocks of Superman's battle in the comics.

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It is worth noting the influence of comic books.

In fact, there is a group of people who are afraid of high-rise buildings, believe that living in high-rise buildings is unsafe, and even suspect that high-rise buildings pose serious safety hazards.

This forced the New York government to issue a denial, and commercial builders brought in experts to explain via radio that their buildings were completely safe and could not be destroyed by Superman, thus ending the rumors about the tower's danger.

Back in the comic book world, the battle between General Zod and Superman has reached its most intense point.

The immense power generated by the battle between the two sides is about to turn the metropolis into ruins.

Superman: "We can't stay here. We're going to destroy Metropolis."

Realizing this, Superman began to shift the battlefield.

He made General Zod keep running, eventually escaping Earth to fight in outer space. During the chase, General Zod seemed to become stronger, and even occasionally caught up with Superman and fought him.

General Zod: "I've been trained as a warrior my whole life. You can't beat me, Superman. I'm a warrior. What are you, a farmer?"

Superman: "I am Superman, a superhero!"

As Superman answered, they flew through space, and under the glow of the cosmic yellow sun, Superman's entire body seemed to be covered in golden light.

As soon as he finished speaking, a red light flashed in his eyes, illuminating the entire universe in a crimson glow.

Chapter 739 Energy Absorption

[Ability Description: Superman can heal himself at an extremely fast pace, regardless of the injury he sustains.]

[Skill - Energy Absorption]

[Ability Description: As a Kryptonian, Superman has the ability to absorb light and radiation from stars, especially the yellow spectrum. His Kryptonian body constantly absorbs and stores energy from Earth's yellow sun, giving him incredible abilities such as superhuman strength, heightened senses, skin that never lets go of a sword, and even the ability to resist gravity.]

"It's finally unlocked."

[Super Healing], this ability seems to originate from the early storyline of the Daily Messenger. Although Xu Fu did not explicitly state in the storyline that Superman possesses this ability, his powerful regenerative abilities displayed in his battle with General Zo "183" clearly demonstrate healing capabilities.

The scene where he loses too much blood in one sentence and recovers in the next is naturally considered by readers to be one of the special abilities Superman possesses.

If that's the case, the appearance of the [Super Healing] ability surprised Xu Fu somewhat.

Therefore, the discovery of the ability to absorb energy was the result of his continuous efforts.