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Warning : contain spoilers forSuperman : Son of Kal - El # 13 !
DC’sSupermanis one of the fast beings on land - but even he has difficulty outpace one element ( and it ’s not theFlash , nor any other speedster ) . The Man of Steelwas ab initio " quicker than a speeding hummer " in the Golden Age of Comics , but can now fly from one country to another in seconds and can deliver a series of punches to his foeman before they even lie with he has entered the conflict . Even so , Superman : Son of Kal - El # 13proves that the one affair that can outspeed Superman in every competition is entropy , and the concern that comes with it .
Superman and the Flash have bucket along each othermultiple times in comics , begin in the Silver Age . Most race terminate without a clear winner ( unremarkably thanks to a supervillain attempting to destruct one or both contestants ) but have recently ended with the Flash as the unquestioned master of speed . While Superman can play around the world in minutes , the Flash can do it in seconds - and can ever run faster than light , countenance him to travel through time .
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InSuperman : Son of Kal - El # 13 , written by Nichole Maines & Tom Taylor with artistic creation by Clayton Henry , Jay Nakamura ( Superman ’s young man ) manages to help defeat an evil Senator who ended up as a tool command by the evil President Bendix . unluckily , his mask is lost in the conflict and the intact world experience he has the powers of intangibility . news show net languish no fourth dimension in rail the character , saying"Wake up sheeple ! Nakamura is the son of the ex - president of Gamorra!“Superman knows the hatred will only get worse:“I ca n’t protect him , not from this . I ca n’t move quicker than information . "
While the phrasal idiom is metaphoric - information must still travel through strong-arm means - Superman is say he ca n’t defend Jay againstmisinformation . The internet has a tendency to accent the damaging at every opportunity , particularly when it come to marginalized non - blank group . The latter is not lost on readers ; Jay Nakamura is an Asiatic gay may who is presently in a relationship with Superman , Earth ’s most salient savior , and there are plenty of fringe groups who may even see Nakamura as a negative influenceon their s0 - holler all - American Italian sandwich .
Superman , for all his strengths , is only one person . He can not maybe defend Jay from every rabble-rousing , accusative firearm in newspapers , blog and talkshows , and both he and Jay bed it . Tom Taylor ’s work onSupermanhas pitted the Man of Steel not against monsters or physical threats so much as concepts , thought and New - twenty-four hours issues ; he can not puzzle out these problems with his strength or speed , and that ’s what makes the current run all the more interesting .
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