2005-11-22

A comic panel shows Superman, grinning confidently in his blue-and-red costume, declaring to a man at a podium: "And so, I will fly around the Earth at incredible speed, thereby reversing its spin, and sending us all back in time to before this catastrophe ever occurred." The man at the podium replies solemnly, "God speed, Superman. God speed." A caption beneath reads: "If you were still alive, you'd probably wish Superman had paid more attention in physics class" — the joke being that spinning the Earth backward wouldn't actually reverse time, so the plan dooms everyone. In the votey (aftercomic), Superman is shown flying alone through a black star-filled sky, thinking in a bubble: "Stupid public school system," blaming his failed physics education as his time-reversal scheme fails.