We could all use new Superman's 'poptimism' of hope

The world is a pretty bleak place at the moment. Around the globe, it doesn’t seem much better.

- Steve Horton, Tribune News Service

Amid all of this turmoil, with humanity seemingly at one of its lowest points, we could really use a Superman in our lives. In fact, we've never yearned for such a person to be real as much as we do now.

Instead, we got the next best thing: James Gunn's “Superman,” a bastion of hope on the silver screen, about the best example of what analysts call “poptimism” that we're ever likely to find: optimism in pop culture in the face of doom all around us. See him stop wars! See him rescue kids and squirrels! See him take down a bald technocrat billionaire! (Whose look predates a couple of egg-shaped billionaires we're contending with now.)