Chapter 222 General Zod (1/2)

“…who are you going to support, Hoover or Roosevelt?”

"The truth is, I'm not going to support either of them, neither of them look like they're going to be able to solve the problem."

"If I have to choose, I think Roosevelt still has some possibility. After all, Hoover has proven that he is a complete disaster. No normal person will let him continue."

"To be honest, I don't know much about Roosevelt. Looking at him in a wheelchair, I doubt that he is a puppet at all. After all, it is difficult for him to even stand up, let alone be president..."

At six o'clock in the morning, at the door of the Courier newspaper office, everyone began to discuss the upcoming presidential election.

As the election atmosphere intensified, everyone's topics unconsciously began to shift towards the general election.

Judging from the current development situation, Roosevelt has obvious advantages. He may have some shortcomings, especially his appearance in a wheelchair, which has become the focus of the Republican attack.

Roosevelt also refuted this. When he was determined to run as the Democratic presidential candidate, he made a statement in a public speech: "A president is not necessarily an acrobat. We did not elect him because of him. He can do forward rolls or backward rolls. He is doing mental work and trying to find ways to benefit the people."

At the same time, Roosevelt also announced his campaign policies, including actively promoting the "Roosevelt New Deal" with relief, reform and rehabilitation as the main content, and his attitude towards the abolition of Prohibition. This formed a strong contrast with Hoover's political views of adhering to traditional conservative values. Contrast.

The "New Deal" abandoned traditional laissez-faire, strengthened government intervention in the economic field, implemented deficit finance, and vigorously developed public utilities to stimulate the economy.

At the same time, it also triggered a strong backlash from the tradition represented by Hoover and conservatives.

"Roosevelt is destroying American values!"

"Roosevelt's New Deal was to rip off the rich and eat 'roasted millionaires' every day!"

"Roosevelt's New Deal violated the Constitution..."

"Roosevelt will lead America into disaster!"

This was all criticism and discussion of the "Roosevelt New Deal" in newspapers and media during this period.

Among them, the most fierce resistance is from some industrial capitalist groups. Because the content of "Roosevelt's New Deal" clearly includes the government's administrative intervention in the economy, they believe that this will become the basis for future government intervention in the economic belt. Here comes the precedent.

Before that, because of the Great Depression, they had the power to overexploit workers, but Roosevelt's New Deal clearly favored the working class.

They believed that Roosevelt was too accommodating to workers, and that increasing business taxes on monopoly capital was a complete rip-off. Some even believed that Roosevelt's "Social Security Act" was completely copied from the "Communist Manifesto."

Although there is a backlash from capitalist groups, the vast majority of labor groups are looking forward to the content of the New Deal. Although most of them do not fully understand the specific content of the "Roosevelt New Deal", this does not prevent them from From some simple numbers and working hours and the attitude of the capitalists, knowing that this should be something that works in their favor.

Because of the New Deal, Roosevelt also indirectly gained the support of a large number of labor groups.

And this is crucial, because when it comes to voting, whether you are a capitalist or a naked homeless person, you only have the right to cast one vote.

Only on that day will homeless people and workers feel like masters of this country.

…

"boss?"

During the discussion, open the door of the newspaper office.

Inside the newspaper office, the sight of Colin crouching at his desk and writing quickly stopped the lively discussion at the door.

"Good morning, everyone."

Sensing the movement coming from outside the newspaper office, Colin stopped the painting brush in his hand and nodded to them.

"Good morning, boss."

In Colin's greeting, Little John and others reacted belatedly, and then hesitantly asked.

"Boss, aren't you filming a movie in Los Angeles?"

Before, Colin had told them that they were going to Los Angeles for a while to participate in the filming of a movie. For this purpose, he deliberately left a thick stack of drawings to be used as a comic series during his absence from the newspaper.

Little John and the others thought that Colin would stay in Los Angeles for a while during this trip.

Who would have thought that he would be back in just a few days.

"Is there something wrong with the steam locomotive?"

For the first time, Little John thought about the train problem. Taking the train from New York to Los Angeles would take several days just to go back and forth.

If we look purely at time, Colin may have returned before even arriving in Los Angeles.

"No, I've already been to Los Angeles."

He stopped the painting brush in his hand and explained the means of transportation he took during this trip under the puzzled eyes of Little John and others.

"airplane?"

"Six hours!"

Regarding the result that Colin returned from Los Angeles to New York in just six hours, everyone in the newspaper office could not help but express shock.

Old John opened his mouth and looked at Colin in front of him.

The convenience of airplanes has exceeded their understanding. For an ordinary person like Old John, six hours may not even leave New York City, but Colin has been able to cross two cities.

"It would be great if I could take a flight sometime."

For John, airplanes are simply transportation tools that only exist in comics. He has never even seen the real appearance of an airplane since he was a child.

The only way to know about airplanes is in the comic book "Superman" serialized by Colin before. In the comic page where Brainiac appeared and shrunk Paris, there was a plot about flying.

"This day will not be too long."

As a latecomer, Colin knew that the history of airplanes becoming popular as mass transportation was not far away. In fact, Delta Airlines in the United States is already trying to develop aviation business. It's just that the occurrence of the Great Depression has hindered the development of the aviation industry and delayed the development of civil aircraft.

After briefly explaining the situation of his return, Colin quickly led the topic back to the reason why he went to New York.

"It has been nearly a year since the decision to serialize "Superman" in the "Courier". The current booming development of the newspaper is largely due to the decision to serialize the comics at the time, so I think it is necessary to launch a series of celebrations for this."

"Anniversary?"

After hearing Colin's explanation, everyone in the newspaper looked at each other.

Little John opened his mouth, but swallowed the words quietly at the signal of Old John's eyes.

If we really calculate it by time, "Superman" is actually still a while away from the real first anniversary, but since Colin spoke, they naturally had no reason to object, and immediately acquiesced to the statement of Superman's anniversary.

In fact, as the creator of "Superman", how could Colin remember the time of the initial serialization wrong?

The reason for choosing this reason is simply to be able to serialize the comic story about Superman on a larger scale.

The experience in the anti-world made Colin know that simply unlocking or improving abilities may not be enough to deal with the threat of the anti-world Saturday Baron, or to defeat him.

And now, under the erosion of the power of death, the time he can stay in the positive world is limited.

Therefore, if he can unlock a power strong enough to fight against Saturday Baron in a short period of time, it will become the focus of Colin's trip.

After thinking about it, the first anniversary became Colin's reason to increase the content of the publication.

Then, with the origin of the anniversary, he not only replaced the comic content that was previously planned to be serialized in the "Daily Courier" tomorrow.

In addition, he also contacted Harry and Jack from the publishing house to prepare a commemorative issue of Superman's first anniversary.

Before, because the Saturday Baron incident did not happen, Colin only followed the conventional routine for the comics serialized in the Daily Courier, telling a story about Superman going to outer space to stop a meteorite from hitting the earth.

In the short comics left, the plot of coming to the Superman world as a superhero Luther continued, and Superman mistakenly thought he was Luther to fight, and then the evil Luther appeared in the Superman world, and the two Luthers fought. At the end of the short story, the superhero Luther and Superman defeated Luther together, and then Superman helped the superhero Luther return to the other world as the ending.

This kind of plot designed purely by imagination does not have much story extension. The main reason for creation is to fill the space of the newspaper and maintain the popularity of the "Superman" comics.

"The time may be a little tight. I hope you can finish the background coloring of the comics before the newspaper is published."

After handing the "Superman" comics created for the anniversary to the workers in the newspaper, Colin hurriedly left the newspaper.

In addition to the serialization of the newspaper, he was also responsible for the design of the first anniversary commemorative issue, and went to CBS radio to meet Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater.

It can be said that the time was quite tight.

"Do you think that Mr. Colin seems to be particularly urgent when he comes back this time?"

Watching Colin's back as he left the newspaper, Little John couldn't help but speak out his inner doubts.

Hearing this, the other people in the newspaper couldn't help but look at each other. Although they didn't speak, they obviously agreed with Little John's statement. Colin's urgency was almost written on his face.

"Did you encounter something in Los Angeles?"

With a frown, Little John began to think about the reason why Colin was so urgent.

Although he had never been to Los Angeles, he was still familiar with the name of Hollywood. Considering that Colin went to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, Little John subconsciously linked his performance with Hollywood.

Although Little John's guess could not be said to be completely wrong, it was also irrelevant.

After all, without knowing what happened to Colin, Little John could not know what happened to Saturday Baron no matter how he guessed.

"If you have time to think about these, you might as well think about it first. The Daily Courier will publish the problem tomorrow."

As Old John's voice sounded, everyone in the newspaper office came back to their senses.

Because the serialized content was replaced, both the coloring of the comics and the layout of the newspaper needed to be redone, and Old John's work was not easy.

Looking at the quiet people around him, Little John first pretended to stay at his desk for a while and sorted out his reporting materials.

But soon, he stood up from his seat with an unnatural look on his face.

Then, for the reason of pouring water, he calmly moved closer to the employees in charge of coloring, and secretly looked at the drawings in their hands.

What they held in their hands was the latest comic draft left by Colin about the first anniversary series.

"I'll just take a look, just a look."

Although he said so in his heart, as his eyes fell on the drawings on the coloring table, Little John was immediately attracted by the plot of the comic.

I don't know if it's because of the first anniversary special issue, Colin obviously has a special arrangement for this issue of the comic plot.

In the new comic plot, a villain named Dru-Zod appears.

From the description of the comic, Dru-Zod was once the commander of the Kryptonian military. He once tried to forcibly change the Kryptonian society through military means. Unfortunately, his rebellious behavior was suppressed, and he and his men were eventually exiled to a space called the Phantom Zone for 200 years.

"Exile for 200 years!"

It can be said that Zod's appearance at the beginning of the comic attracted Little John's attention.

Because of the exile, Zod could not move freely and could only watch the destruction of Krypton helplessly.

At the same time, because of the fluctuations caused by the destruction of Krypton, Zod and his team escaped from the Phantom Zone. General Zod, who lost his home, vowed to rebuild Krypton, and Superman on Earth became General Zod's target, because Superman's father Jor-El put the central treasure book that recorded the hope of Krypton's social development into the spacecraft together with the infant Superman before the destruction of Krypton. At the same time, because of the exile incident, General Zod had some strong hatred for Superman's biological father Jor-El.

In this way, General Zod, who escaped from the Phantom Zone, kept wandering in the universe, looking for Superman's whereabouts.

At the same time, Clark, who was working in Metropolis, also received a call from his adoptive parents in the countryside.

Clark: "Yes, this is Clark, Jonathan?"

Jonathan: "Something went wrong, Clark."

Clark: "What happened, Jonathan?"

Jonathan: "Your spaceship suddenly made a sound last night. This has never happened before. Martha is a little scared."

Clark: "Don't panic, I'll be back soon."

While Clark was talking to his adoptive father Jonathan, in a spaceship in the distant universe, General Zod received a signal from Superman's spaceship on Earth.

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