Communism

In our recurring feature, ComicsAlliance brings you the best comic book adventures that do not, could not, and sometimes should not exist: Great Comics That Never Happened! This week, Chris Sims and the amazing artist Kerry Callen bring you the Silver Age version of Superman: Red Son...

On sale later this month from Vertigo is Marzi: A Memoir, a new graphic novel written by Marzena Sowa and illustrated by Sylvain Savoia that recalls scenes from Sowa's life as a young girl living in Poland in the last years of Communism. The book contains the sort of Iron Curtain imagery you'd imagine, but seen through the innocent eyes of a child...

This week sees the release of a deluxe hardcover edition of Mark Millar's"Superman: Red Son," an alternate-universe story that explores what happens when the rocket containing baby Kal-El of Krypton lands on a farm collective in Soviet Russia instead of in the heart of Kansas, and the world's greatest super-hero is raised as a dirty commie...