She/they. Greek-American. Trying something new.

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  • IMHO, the best stories about Superman are the ones that challenge him in non-physical ways. Like how All-Star Superman laid out as a given that Superman had a year to live and focused on how he spent that time, or What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way, which puts him in an ideological conflict against younger heroes with more lethal methods.




















  • Then why specifically the superintendent? Even if this was a bullying issue with an unsatisfactory conclusion, there’s no way he would have engaged with the superintendent of the district without engaging with the principal first. They would both have failed to resolve the problem, so why would he have gone after the superintendent specifically and left the principal there to shake his daughter’s hand?

    And, of course, the other issue is, even if that was true, that doesn’t make what he did OK. He’s marginally less shitty by virtue of not being openly racist, but he still made sure that his daughter’s last memory of high school is him getting arrested for assaulting the district superintendent and embarrassing her in front of the entire graduating class and their families.