#Lara El

[anyspirit]

They were put in charge of babysitting

[idknwhatputhere]

This scene makes me see How Young zor el (kara's father) looks Compared to Clark's parents, even though apparently in this universe he and Kara would be the same age

[romancemedia]

First Look at My Adventures with Superman 2x09 This Weekend!!

[youngbounty]

OMG The El Family is escaping from Earth together! Kal gets to have his parents!

[nitewrighter]

Okay so I've been thinking about this for a while. So back in the 80's John Byrne overhauled the Superman origin story to come up with the concept of Krypton as this cold, technologically-driven planet--and this was partially so that the ship Superman arrived on earth in was an artificial womb so that he would kind of, technically, be 'born' on Earth (which honesty cuts into a lot of the pathos of Krypton and Lara and Jor as parents and also cuts into the 'Superman as immigrant' narrative which we've come to love so much). And this did end up influencing Superman lore because, hey, Krypton as a technologically-driven society that is deeply flawed but also convinced of its own perfection is still really interesting.

Cut to Snyder making 'Man of Steel' in 2013 where he asserts that Kal-El is the first "natural" birth on Krypton in centuries. So basically because Snyder wanted to work in more of his Christ metaphor for Superman ("His birth is a HUUUUGE DEEAL"), you end up back with the lore that yes, Kal-El was a (born) baby when he got put in his rocket and thus it's back to an immigrant narrative.

Anyway, ANYWAY, my point is, even though both these writers were working from a weird conservative place that fundamentally misunderstands major points of Superman's character (In Byrne's case, Superman as an immigrant, and in Snyder's case, Superman as Jewish/Space Moses) it has resulted in what may be my favorite implication of Superman Lore: That Jor-El and Lara were considered pervert freaks for having a baby the old-fashioned way. If Krypton never blew up, Kal-El would have grown up relentlessly bullied, like "That's Kal-El, his parents had him by having sex, without input from the proper committees, he came out of a vagina, what a freak."

Sidenote but I'm actually really enjoying the "House of El" YA graphic novels right now, because it's basically Lara and Jor going, "The only way to save Krypton is by inflicting ADHD on random teenagers."

[smallcloisville]

I love the atmosphere shown in this movie. It's so dreamy and alien-like 😍😍

Also their clothes are so alienated and glowing.

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Absolute Superman (2024-) #3 art by Rafa Sandoval

[artblooger19moon]

My Adventures with Superman

Season 1 : June 4 - June 24 2024

Season 2 : July 18 - July 22 2024

[vertigoartgore]

1988's Superman Vol.2 #18 cover by cover artist Mike Mignola.

[abelhatarefada]

Spoilers for Absolute Superman #3

Okay, so this issue kinda implies that the other kriptonians have escaped in the spacecraft Lara and Jor-el build (they didn't show us, so not sure yet). And because both Martha and Lara say the same thing ("sweet angel boy"), this makes us assume that Martha is, in fact, Lara. The Kent family is a disguise for House of El.

But why is Martha so old when Kal looks so young?

My guess is that the spacecraft needed pilots while the rest of the refugees (who were majoritarily farmers) were put in some kind of cryosleep. And since they were the only ones who build it and knew how to pilot, the job couldn't be done by anyone else. So they stayed awake, making sure they would arrive in a planet where they could live.

[kara-zor-els]

Friendship with Action Comics Lara ended, now Absolute Superman Lara is my best friend

[anyspirit]

Guys, I think he needs some help

[idknwhatputhere]

Kind of unfair that we didn't have a memory of pa and ma Kent

[nitpickrider]

Stepping back from Clark's perspective. I bet the Kents wondered about this meeting all the time. Jonathan and Martha probably thought about Clark's birth parents a lot. Couldn't help it. Every time he struggled or felt different they would have wondered if he would have been better with his "real" parents Jor El and Lara would have probably only seen these two humans who gave their baby a home, a name, and love. Action Comics 283

[youngbounty]

This is crazy! So, this is supposed to be a universe created by Darkseid to place each hero in the worst outcome or upbringing. Yet, despite this, Kal was probably able to save more Kryptonians than in canon from he wrote when sneaking into the office building.

I love how Kal did get to grow up on Krypton and tried to save the people there in his own way. Does that mean that there are refugees from Krypton that live on Earth? It also makes me wonder if, in canon, Krypton did continue on for 16 or so more years before being destroyed.

[evilhorse]

Science is forward-looking! Science is progressive!

(Action Comics #1074)