"I see Superman as the American Christ, simple as that. No one's yet really on the inspirational possibilities of that idea. After years of cowboys, soldiers, tough private eyes and gangsters at a time in the late 1930s when America's self-image was built around the use of guns as a means to tame a young and restless country - and on the eve of a world war no less - two teenage boys came up with their brilliant notion: an All-American icon hero with a code against killing. Here we have a living flag, who always uses his immense strength and super-intelligence to solve problems without leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. What a forward-thinking, utopian idea that is! Superman as the new world testament!"
-Grant Morrison