Dude, this is NOT a vignette! It's a teaser to a long, drawn-out, angst-ridden roller coaster ride that will threaten to destroy all who dare to step aboard. There's no way you can leave it like this! Somebody make him give us the next chapter!

Now you've got more than one Kryptonian (with all the same powers as Superman) in Metropolis. What if his biological parents don't want Clark to be a public hero? What if they don't want him hanging around a frail, pathetic, emotionally damaged human female? What if they really want him to be a part of New Krypton so they can live in the style to which they would like to become accustomed?

And how will Jonathan and Martha react when Jor-El and Lara criticize everything they did while raising Kal-El? Will Jor-El and Lara have the same ethical standards as Clark does? (I strongly suspect not.) How will they fit into human society, assuming they want to fit in at all? What if they want to set up their own little kingdom somewhere? What if they reveal themselves as Kryptonians, refuse to act like Superman, and thereby trash Superman's reputation?

Oh, this premise is fraught with possibilities. Please explore some of them. If you don't, someone may put that little evil gremlin in his or her reply post and -

evil

Uh-oh. Don't say I didn't warn you.


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