Superman: Red and Blue is a DC Comics Anthology Comic series published in 2021.
In a similar vein to Batman: Black and White, each issue is an anthology of various eight-ten page stories from a variety of different writers and artists featuring Superman and other characters from his world in his signature colors of red and blue. As an anthology, each story featured ranges greatly in terms of continuity, setting, tone, and genre.
Not to be confused with The Amazing Story of Superman Red and Superman Blue.
Tropes found in the series include:
- Artificial Limbs: The titular boy in the story "The Boy Who Saved Superman" ends up losing his arm because of it and eventually gets a high-tech artificial limb from S.T.A.R. Labs.
- Batman in My Basement: "The Boy Who Saved Superman" sees an early-in-his-career Supes get K.O.'d by a rampaging alien monster, leading to a young fan of his desperately trying to get the unconscious Superman to safety as the building around them collapses.
- Cerebus Retcon: John Ridley's story that revisits World's Finest #192-193 implies that Clark was raped during his time as a prisoner.
- Commie Land: One story takes place in a fictional Eastern European nation called Lubania, that used to an oppressive Soviet satellite state before the fall of Communism.
- Deliberately Monochrome: "Human Colors" is set almost entirely in black and white as a fifth-dimensional impnote has stolen the world's colors.
- Implied Rape: John Ridley's story from issue 1 that revisited World's Finest #192-193 implied that Clark was sexually assaulted during his time as a prisoner.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Hissy Fit involves Supergirl trying to take care of her temperamental pet Streaky the Supercat.
- Rape as Drama: John Ridley's untitled story that revisited World's Finest #192-193 implies that during his time as a prisoner of Koslov that Clark was sexually assaulted and how he's dealing with the trauma.
- Retired Monster: Colonel Koslov, the head of the Secret Police in Lubania became this in the post-Fall of Communism world. When Clark visits him in the modern time of the story, he has become a sucessful businessman and brushes off questions about his actions during the previous regime.
- Sequel Episode: John Ridley's untitled story in issue #1 is a sequel to a pre-Crisis World's Finest storyline from 1970note .
