Jor-El has Kryptonian super-science at his fingertips.
So why the hoo-hah doesn’t he build a robot to go along with the kid?
Heck, why not buy one: he could probably get one at Kryptonian Sears & Roebuck.
If I ride in the ship as well, does that increase my chances of getting a date with Medusa?
Wrong universe. And don’t make me slap you. In fact, slap yourself, Etruscan.
If the ship was big enough Lara should’ve gotten in with Kal, but I was always under the impression it wasn’t big enough.
Interestingly, for his reboot, John Byrne originally wanted it to be Lara in the ship and she gives birth (and dies) after landing in Kansas, but somewhere along the way it got turned into the birthing matrix instead.
But that requires us to acknowledge any Superman retcon that Byrne has ever had a hand in, which is of course unconscionable.
I looked for that option on the list but didn’t find it. 
See, this is why I don’t hire Canadians.
Well, that and your unreasoning fear of us.
:rolleyes:
Superman was the one reboot Byrne did right.
:rolleyes: back at ya, TBG. Byrne’s reboot of Superman did away with Superboy and that really fucked up The Legion of Super-Heroes, one of DC’s best titles in the '80’s.
Admittedly that wasn’t Byrne’s fault, as I understand it. He wasn’t the one who wanted to get rid Superboy; that was the editors.
I’ve always thought it would have been optimal to have the young Clark trapped in the 30th century (well, 31st, now) for a number of (subjective) years to explain his presence in the Legion. Having Superman able to travel through time at will was the biggest problem with power-creep the Silver Age version had. But if the Legion had both spotty records of the previous Age of Heroes (so they didn’t know any real details of Clark’s career) and access only to experimental and unreliable time travel tech, then having Clark be a member seems more reasonable.
Which of course has jack-all to do with this the poll topic. I only care a Salu bit, though.
They did that with Connor, during his primary stint with the team.
And it worked a LOT better for him than it would have for Clark, since Connor’s ‘stuck not aging’ thing I don’t think was specifically retconned, though I think it may have been ignored since. But sticking Connor in the future for a significant amount of time wouldn’t apparently age him when he came back - Clark wouldn’t benefit from that. (He would age quickly, so far as anyone would notice in the present, as it is, but it wouldn’t be a sudden jump of a few years, so it wouldn’t be nearly so striking.)
Anyway, removing Supergirl from continuity did worse to the Legion than removing Superboy did, IMO - it was the stumbling, halting way they did it that was a problem for Superboy - Supergirl’s elimination borked some seriously great bits of Brainiac 5’s characterization, but for Superboy, if they’d just done the ‘no, it wasn’t Superboy it was [del]Mon-El[/del]Valor’ retcon right away, rather than futzing around with the pocket universe thing, that would have been much cleaner, and only broken the story where he originally joined.
It’s possible that I’m misremembering. Was it not Byrne who decided that all of Superman’s powers were psionic, and that his strength was actually telekinesis, and his X-ray vision actually clairvoyance, and so on? Was it some other writer who said he used super-hypnosis, aided by glasses made from his ship, to protect his secret identity? If so, then my ire is directed at that other writer.
The super-hypnosis thing was pre-Crisis; it was a fan suggestion that made it into canon and was quickly forgotten on account of being even more ridiculous than the inconsistency it was explaining.
Removing Superboy didn’t bork over Legion, DC’s half assed piecemeal approach at rebooting the universe post-Crisis borked over Legion. They tried like 3-4 different ways to replace Superboy in the Legion origin, (it’s Pocket Universe Superboy, NO it’s actually Mon-El who inspired them, no wait it was something else, oh hell let’s just throw everything out and start over 5 more times). It’s almost as bad as Hawkman.