Some pointless and random thoughts about Superman that keep me up at night

We all know the story of Superman being rocketed to Earth from the exploding planet Krypton. While baby Supes, “Kal-El”, seems blameless, his parents sure as hell aren’t. Jor-El, Superman’s father, must have been an idiot of the first degree. First off, he discovers that the planet is exploding, so he constructs a spaceship that can carry his son and nobody else. Talk about your advanced Kryptonian intellect. “Oh, no…”, the comic book fan might interject, “Superman’s father didn’t have the time to build a bigger spacecraft.” C’mon. This is incredible Kryptonian technology we’re talking about here. All the buildings on the planet are made out of talking computers that project the head of Marlon Brando, for chrissakes. These incredibly advanced outer space people only had one spaceship lying around that could hold only one tiny baby? Even if there was a law prohibiting space travel (as some of the varieties of the Superman origin tale make apparent), out of a planet of billions of incredibly advanced geniuses only ONE Kryptonian slob had the guts to construct something akin to Sputnik and slap his kid into it? <a href="https://medium.com/@danielrobertproulx/some-pointless-and-random-thoughts-about-superman-that-keep-me-up-at-night-3f7c9446ecfb">Read More</a>