To honor it but to let go of the idea of being wholly faithful to it.

Unable to get up on his own, Superman whistles and calls on his faithful companion Krypto to drag him home.

They successfully toe the line between staying faithful to the established formula and the need to innovate just enough to keep it modern, while not diluting the charm with vapid pop-culture references.

So it’s this total world of Burroughs that I was trying to be faithful to.

And in a holiday speech to Liberal Party faithful on Tuesday, he acknowledged politics came with "big challenges" but said: "In difficult times, it's not time to stop. It's time to be ambitious, audacious."