Chapter 223 Yellow Sun (1/2)

"Little John...Little John..."

In the newspaper office, just as Little John was attracted by the story on the drawing and was concentrating, Old John's voice suddenly came from behind him.

Turning his head, he saw Old John in front of the typesetting machine looking at him with a bad face.

"If you have time to read the comics of "Superman" there, go outside to take more news materials for me."

With Old John staring at him, Little John couldn't stay in the newspaper office to read comics. He reluctantly withdrew his eyes from the drawing, took the camera on the table and left the newspaper office, looking back every few steps.

Watching Little John's back as he left, Old John adjusted the brass reading glasses on his nose, shook his head and put his attention back on the typesetting work in his hands.

After the "Courier" was changed to the "Courier Daily", the workload that Old John needed to be responsible for typesetting increased a lot.

For this reason, Colin once planned to recruit another typesetter to share Old John's pressure.

But Old John rejected this proposal without hesitation.

With the new typesetters, his job position in the newspaper will be affected immediately.

In addition, the number of typesetters is also a problem. It is impossible for two workers to use one machine in turn. Once the machine is purchased, it will be another expense.

Since it is impossible to change the typesetting workers, the only thing to do is to change the newspaper itself.

The newspapers issued during this period were relatively crowded in design. Even the front-page news often squeezed a lot of text into a small page, giving people a gray and boring feeling.

When the "Courier" was revised, considering the layout problem, Colin deliberately changed the layout design of the "Courier Daily". He not only relaxed the number of news columns and increased the font size, but also inserted more news photos and pictures in the news, flexibly used multi-column titles, and layout combinations, instead of simply limiting the news to a specific page on a certain page.

This approach undoubtedly greatly improved the readability of the news, and it was also closer to the news design that Colin was familiar with.

The unique layout design of the Daily Courier has also successfully attracted the attention of readers. The sales growth trend in the near future is obvious, and it is even approaching the day of the World Journal.

Feeling the Daily Courier, the World Journal or other newspapers seem to have noticed the impact of layout design on reader attraction, and have begun to try to adopt new layout designs.

For example, a large part of the layout of the latest issue of the World Journal is "referenced" to the layout content of Colin's Daily Courier.

If you block the name of the newspaper and just look at the layout of the news report, you may even mistakenly think that this is the newspaper published by the Daily Courier.

Unfortunately, the layout design of the news cannot be patented.

Otherwise, the World Journal's practice of "plagiarism" in the name of "reference" will be enough to make it suffer.

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"Change the series?"

CBS, New York Radio.

In the dubbing studio of the radio drama "The Adventures of Superman".

The Mercury Theater members, led by Orson Welles, learned from Colin that the script was going to be changed, and couldn't help showing a surprised expression.

At present, the eight-episode script "My Girl" that they are responsible for dubbing was specially left by Colin before he went to Los Angeles. It mainly tells the story of Clark's childhood girlfriend Lana going to Metropolis to meet Clark. This is a story of Superman's early years. It is also in this episode that the connection between Clark as Superman and Lois is described.

At that time, the fledgling Superman saved a crashed plane during the flight, and Lois was the passenger on that plane, so the first report about Superman in the Daily Courier was born.

The plot of the eighth episode of the radio drama is about the relationship between Clark and his first love Lana, and the relationship with Lois later. Of course, Luthor's appearance is also interspersed in the plot, making the whole radio drama warm and exciting at the same time.

Because the entire episode was too long, Orson Welles deliberately divided the story into two episodes. Mercury Theater has completed the dubbing of the first ten minutes of the first episode.

Colin's sudden appearance and request to change the episode undoubtedly disrupted their work arrangements.

"Sorry."

Colin also knew that his approach was a bit difficult.

However, considering the current tense situation, a daily radio series like "My Girl" is nothing compared to his power acquisition. Therefore, Colin had no choice but to make a request to Orson Welles as a screenwriter. As for the reason, it was naturally the one-year anniversary that he had mentioned to Old John and others in the newspaper.

As the screenwriter of "The Adventures of Superman" and the creator of "Superman", Colin himself has a great dominance in radio dramas.

Therefore, after listening to the reasons he gave, even if he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, Orson Welles still accepted the request to change the episode.

Reaching out to take the new script created by the other party, the first thing that attracted Orson Welles's attention was the name of the new script-"Solar Energy".

Unlike the previous simple and clear titles, the names of the new scripts are a bit vague.

However, when Orson Welles opened the script and saw the description, he instantly understood the meaning of this episode.

…

Early the next morning, readers of the Daily Courier saw the appearance of General Zod in the newspaper.

The appearance of General Zod brought great shock to readers. This commander of the Kryptonian military was extremely oppressive from the moment he appeared.

In order to show the powerful characteristics of General Zod, Colin deliberately made some changes in the perspective of the comics, depicting the villain image of General Zod from an upward perspective, giving readers who saw this scene a sense of oppression. And this sense of oppression completely broke out with General Zod's arrival in Metropolis.

There were also his men who were exiled to the Phantom Zone together with General Zod, and they were also criminals of the Kryptonian Military Court.

As soon as they appeared, these people showed powerful strength comparable to Superman.

At the same time, the comic also uses General Zod's mouth to describe in more detail why Superman is so powerful.

Fiora: "I feel that my strength has become much stronger?"

According to Fiora's description, the female adjutant under General Zod easily lifted the car beside her and threw it away.

Then, she took a deep breath and sprayed cold frost from her mouth like Superman.

General Zod: "It's the sun. The sun here is different from Krypton."

Facing the doubts of the female adjutant Fiora, General Zod looked up at the yellow sun suspended above the earth, and his description revealed the difference between the sun of Krypton and the sun of the earth.

General Zod: "The sun of Krypton is red, while the sun of this planet is yellow. The different living environments have led to the gap in our strength. The sun of this planet is continuously providing us with strength and making us stronger."

As General Zod's voice fell, a red light like Superman appeared in his eyes.

Then, the powerful heat rays emitted from his eyes instantly penetrated a building.

General Zod: "With these powers, we can transform this planet into a brand new Krypton!"

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The powerful power displayed by General Zod and others, which was not inferior to Superman, immediately aroused the concerns of the readers of the Daily Courier.

With uneasiness about Superman's situation, they turned to another page of the newspaper, and the content of the story turned to Superman.

After receiving a call from his adoptive father Jonathan, Clark returned to the rural area where he grew up. In the basement of the farm, he saw the spaceship that sent the signal.

At the same time, he also saw the message left by his biological father Jor-El in the spaceship.

It turned out that when Krypton was destroyed, Jor-El deliberately placed the central treasure book that recorded the hope of Krypton's social development in the spaceship that Clark was riding in order to preserve the fire and hope for the planet. At the same time, the message also revealed what happened in the last moments of Krypton, including General Zod's rebellion and Clark's different birth from most Kryptonians.

It turns out that the highly developed Krypton had given up natural reproduction hundreds of years ago and chose to use the Central Codex for reproduction. It is precisely because of this that the Kryptonians have determined their identities from the beginning. General Zod has been responsible for protecting Krypton since his birth, and Jor-El is a scientist.

But Clark is different. He is the only natural child on Krypton for hundreds of years.

Jor-El revealed in the message that Clark is different and has the possibility of freely choosing his own future.

This plot also gives readers who read comics in front of newspapers a hint that Superman is a different existence, even as a Kryptonian, he is unique.

Giving readers superiority is a common creative method in comics.

Because readers who watch works often put themselves into the identity of the protagonist, the existence of superiority is necessary. Once this uniqueness is lost, readers often feel dissatisfied and give up the work.

The existence of villains is to enhance the value and uniqueness of the protagonist, not to suppress the protagonist.

After giving readers a reassurance, the next plot begins to enter the fierce battle between Clark and General Zod.

Through the positioning of the spaceship, Fiora, as the adjutant, first came to the farm and started a fierce battle with Clark, who was transformed into Superman.

In order to show the intensity of the battle in the comics, Colin deliberately emphasized the destruction of the surrounding scenes between the two, including the smashed farm, the collapsed trees and the broken pits on the ground. This kind of comic plot design was obviously a very novel design at that time.

Before, although there was a battle with Brainiac, the feeling in the universe was still obviously different from the battle on Earth.

Especially when the comics were fixed on the scene where Fiora hit Clark's body and formed a huge dent on the ground and appeared in the serialization of the Daily Courier, the readers who saw this scene subconsciously held their breath.

This battle between pure power and power made them feel a little uneasy for Superman as a fighting party while they were very excited.

Because during the whole battle, it was obvious that Superman portrayed by Colin was at a disadvantage.

Not only because he had to protect his adoptive parents on the farm, but also because the Kryptonian female lieutenant Fiora's fighting skills seemed to be stronger than Superman's.

Regarding this point, Colin introduced it in the blank space next to the comic.

As a female lieutenant of Krypton, Fiora has strong fighting qualities. She was born to fight, so it is natural that Superman can't beat Fiora, because Superman has not received any combat training since he was a child.

Of course, this situation of being forced to be beaten did not last too long.

Soon Superman counterattacked. He fired heat vision from his eyes to attack Fiora. Although Fiora also fought back, she could not resist the power of Superman's heat vision and was hit in the body.

At the same time, the explanation appeared again in the blank space.

Although they both gained abilities under the yellow sun on Earth, there are still obvious differences between Fiora and Superman. Clark grew up on Earth and has absorbed the power of the yellow sun for more than 20 years. The power of these suns is deposited in Superman's body, constantly improving his physical fitness. Fiora has only been on Earth for less than half a day, and they can use these abilities freely, which is already very powerful.

After successfully defeating Fiora, Superman did not rest assured because in the previous conversation with Fiora, the other party had revealed that he was not alone.

Therefore, Superman came to Metropolis and immediately saw the Kryptonian warriors wreaking havoc in the city, and saw General Zod overlooking the city on the building of the Metropolis Daily Courier.

Seeing General Zod standing on the Daily Courier, Superman flew over without hesitation and wanted to attack.

However, the next comic strip turned into a picture of General Zod waving his fist and hitting Superman.

At the same time, in this frame, Superman's wounded and bleeding appearance clearly appeared.

This is also the first time that Superman has appeared in a comic book with blood since his creation.

"Superman, is he injured?"

In front of the Daily Courier, readers showed shocked expressions when they saw this scene.

And the classic scene of Superman being injured in this episode also became the last page of this issue.

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