Better dead than Red: National Review columnist Alexander Rose remembers fondly the war comics of his boyood, then glances disapprovingly at the reinvented "Captain Anti-America" (crafted by "Marvel's in-house team of Chomskyites," no less) before settling on Superman: Red Son:

"Passing over the Queen Mary II-sized plot-holes, it's a brilliant idea, and there is some fun to be had in cameos by Batman (now wearing a fur hat and working as an anti-socialist vigilante) and Wonder Woman, who plays a radical fellow-traveler fighting for women's rights. There's also some terrific artwork of Superman, a hammer-and-sickle emblazoned on his chest in place of the iconic 'S,' wearing a Red Army uniform and encouraging his 'comrades' to throw off their shackles.

"Unfortunately, there's an unnecessary pompousness to the proceedings. Mark Millar makes no secret of his Leftie views — he changed the storyline, he says, to genuflect on 'unethical American foreign policy' (yeah, right on); Superman the Sov 'is an allegory of George W. Bush and very like America,' you get the picture — and doesn't bother mentioning the Gulag even as he paints Stalin as an avuncular fellow."