#lara lor van

[dailydccomics]

oh Kal-El (.づ◡﹏◡)づ. Action Comics #1076

[d-e-r-i]

mothers

[oneshotprincess]

i think the reason these 'soft reveals' work so great because because in a darker universe, a universe made in darkseid's image, you expect things to be things to be the worst, the most miserable they could possibly be.

and yet, its in this universe that bruce and kal get to experience life with their parents.

even diana, taken from her mother and sisters as a baby and cast into literal hell, finds the love of a mother there.

despite everything, they experienced that love. despite everything, there's hope.

[kal8elle]

By @jesncin

[why-i-love-comics]

Absolute Superman #1 - "Down in the Dirt" (2024)

written by Jason Aaron art by Rafa Sandoval & Ulises Arreola

[theflashjaygarrick]

I love Superman’s origin story because it is the perfect thematic basis for his powerful belief in the potential goodness of people.  

Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van sending their son to Earth alone was an ultimate gamble on the goodness of strangers. They sent their only son – The Last Son of Krypton – to Earth as a desperate attempt to give him a chance to survive. Everything they were, everything that they could have been, was swaddled in a blanket sent off into the unknown in a ship the size of a cradle. And they knew baby Kal-El would be unable to survive by himself, that his only hope was that some strangers from another distant world find him and respond not with fear or paranoia or hatred, but with love. 

And in a thousand cynical stories Kal-El would have been stolen away by government scientists, or killed, or abandoned, or died alone in the fields of Kansas. But this is Clark Kent’s story and in it his parents' desperate faith in the goodness of strangers was rewarded. The Kents found him. This very ordinary and very human couple found a baby in an alien ship well beyond their technological understanding and decided to react not with suspicion but with kindness. 

They saw him not as a potential extraterrestrial threat but as an alone baby who needed help. They raised him like their own, with all the love and kindness they could give. They responded to his inhuman or even dangerous powers not with fear or rejection, but with understanding and endless support. And they taught him his values of helping others, the importance of assisting those weaker, lost, or more alone than yourself. 

And with this in mind how could this Superman – the product of the ultimate act of hope and the kindness with which it was met – not believe in the potential for goodness of everyone? How could he not believe that, despite everything, this big wide world is inherently kind? 

[cyanbeetle]

Face practice with DC moms

[arson-jellyfish69]

"I will find Kal-el and keep him occupied, we cannot let her disturb the simulation"

*proceeds to completely fucking miss him as he walk directly into the room Lois is being held in*

[kara-zor-els]

Lara haircurl truthers rise up!

[camo-wolf]

OH SHIT OH SHIT

[nitpickrider]

It occurs to me just now that we have precious few stories examining Lara as a character. Action Comics 500

[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."

[vitapeaks]

The way Clark said his moms name was so soft

like he didnt know her name until Brainiac mention her. And its like not even Jor-el had time to mention Lara by name. He just call her "your mother". Brainiac didnt even mention her last name Lor-van. Like he dosent know the other side of his family the Lor-van They are all dead but still

Its just like I think that Clark realize that moment that he didnt even know his mom name. Like he didnt know there was a pice of him that was still missing until then .

It just gave the feels

[jetslay]

New Superman & Lois season 4 trailer!

[kal8elle]

[why-i-love-comics]

Action Comics #1074 - "Phantoms V" (2024)

written by Mark Waid art by Clayton Henry, Michael Shelfer, & Matt Herms