#lara van

[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

[syppys-den]

please tell me Clark had a similar reaction to seeing his parents as Bruce seeing his in the BATB episode Chill of The Night

Action Comics v1 #1074

I just wanted to make a post appreciating the outfits of Krypton. I think I also make another post about outfits from Absolute Superman.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Marlon Brando, Susannah York and Lee Quigley - Superman: The Movie (1978)

[jetslay]

"DC League of Super-Pets" art by Marion Bordeyne.

[why-i-love-comics]

Absolute Superman #3 - "Boy From the Purple Prairie" (2025)

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? 

[dailydccomics]

absolute family ♡ Absolute Superman #3 by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval

[milkydraws8]

extended family

[cyanbeetle]

Face practice with DC moms

[kryptonbabe]

Kid Kal-el, Jor-el and Lara hugging back at Krypton before the destruction

From Absolute Superman #1 (2024) by Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval

[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!

[kal8elle]

[camo-wolf]

OH SHIT OH SHIT

[jetslay]

Dark Knights of Steel by Yasmine Putri.