Confession time. I hate Superman. The character is boring. The story is boring. The whole thing is dumb. I remember one time I was at a theme park that had a Superman themed ride, and as you went through the line you passed by signs explaining each of his various powers. That's how I learned that one of his powers was "Super Smarts" (or something like that). I audibly laughed. Like, the writers were like, "We already gave him all these other powers, what if we say he's also really smart?" But then completely ignore that in every situation. Because who needs to be smart when you can win every fight by throwing super punches?

All that to say that I don't really know that much about Superman other than what I've seen in the stupid movies and the stupid TV shows. So I don't know how much detail they've gone into about what growing up was like. I assume it's like Jesus in the bible where they just yada yada yada over the childhood years. But this comic is how I imagine it would go in modern America where people lose their kids over nothing.

As for the weird giant chunk of Kryptonite, I don't like it either. But I was too lazy to rework the image to give them Kryptonite handcuffs, so we're stuck with it.

- Management