The Buckets by Greg Cravens for November 13, 2022

Yes it is

The kid’s not wrong.

I know there have been many incarnations of Superman, so maybe they’ve made changes I’m not aware of. I didn’t think he shoots lasers out of his eyes. He has heat vision, x-ray vision, microscopic and telescopic vision. Those are the only vision powers I’m aware of.

As for this situation, I don’t know why some parents have to over-complicate things. Superman isn’t human, and it’s his Kryptonian physiology that allows him to do what he can do without the aid of any mechanical devices. Simple explanation.

Superman can do whatever his writers decide he can do

He’s had some good writers and some not so good

I seem to remember some pretty lame explanations about how his powers worked back in the 70s

X-ray vision, eye lasers, flying – all that later rot is just perversions of the original character, who just really strong and really fast, due to his race having evolved on a planet with much higher gravity than Earth’s (Yeah, there was a copy Action Comics No. 1 at my Grandma’s house).

Back in 1985/86, when DC rebooted the character from scratch, writer John Byrne said most of Superman’s powers are telekinetically based. Flight? TK. Lifting a jumbo jet in a way that gravity demands it should break? TK. Heat vision? Telekinetically heating up the target (and to get really in the weeds, Byrne also drew the book and pointedly did NOT include the beam, just a close up of Clark’s eyes going red). My head cannon was the “beams” were air in-between the eyes and the target heating up slightly from the telekinetic activity, but that was just me. Of course there’s been multiple revisions since then, and I haven’t kept all the way up. So it’s likely very different here thirty-seven years later.

The boy will remember that story forever and will tell it to his own children…..

there is no logical or scientific reason for any super power (looking at you Dr. Strange). So long as heroes are heroic I just enjoy it. I’m not fond of the Soap Opera “heroes” that have sprung up because it is so difficult to come up with new and fresh story lines. Too much angst and whining and feeling sorry for themselves.

Dadsplaining. He could have just said comic physics like we do.

THE Superhero.

Another dadfact, that’s going to come back and haunt Larry some time.

My husband was a Superman villain once in a Superman comic book. We went to college with the writer of that (and other) comic books and he put a version of husband’s name in as same. The villain was a movie fanatic. (And, yes, we have an autographed copy with reference to it being husband.)