Everyone has always assumed that Superman’s powers came from our yellow sun, but a new comic has just changed that at DC Comics.
Superman, like all Kryptonians, when irradiated by our yellow Sun, becomes a “living battery” and manifests various powers, including flight, super strength and super endurance, durability, among other abilities that we know well, right? Well, according to a new comic, the source of the Man of Steel’s superhuman abilities isn’t exactly what we’ve thought all this time.’
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Superman: Lost #2 spoiler alert!
In Superman: Lost #2 by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan, released last week, Clark Kent returns to Earth after spending 20 years in space in the quantum singularity, after being hurled into another part of the universe by a group of travelers. And when these antagonists reflect on the hero’s biology, the Man of Steel himself explains that Kryptonians manifest biochemical reactions to gravity when exposed to solar radiation.
The storyline continues, but more important is what Superman said about the biology of Kryptonians, as it’s something that has never been detailed before in the comics. Clark’s plot explanation implies that solar radiation is important in activating his powers, but the source of these abilities is actually the gravity he experiences on each planet—a major departure from the “active battery” concept.
This gives rise to various projections, as a planet with stronger or weaker gravity can affect your powers. And, to make matters even more complex, Clark himself adds that “a thousand other variables” affect his superhuman abilities, in addition to solar radiation – be it yellow, red, white or any other color.
And by the end of the storyline, more questions arise than answers about the source and true extent of Superman’s powers. This, in fact, is part of a redesign that the hero is currently undergoing. After returning from the saga of War world recently, Clark has manifested some incredible abilities, such as teleportation and kryptonite resistance. – in the very plot of the Lost arc, the Man of Steel, in a white uniform, has some gravitational control.
It is DC that makes Superman even more powerful and leaves the explanations that have been dragging on since the 70s transitioning between science fiction and what we know of science, in a mysterious, dynamic, intriguing and entertaining way. And you can bet we’ll still see amazing extensions of these new Man of Steel abilities and status quo in the years to come.
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