So, nobody guessed that Superior Man is powered by procreating. Now everybody has to go back to the beginning of this battle and see how many glowing-blue-eyed felons there are in the prison. Kudos to SVGeezer, who was on the right track, as he was the only one that noticed “His eyes glow the same as the power beams hitting him…”
This was originally going to be a double-page reveal, but I was running out of time this week. So there will be one more page of “stop fighting so we can dialog” comic before the battle resumes.
The real question now is, “How does this information possibly help the heroes defeat Superior Man?” To rob him of his power, do they need to wipe out his entire family line? There’s a definite moral quandary involved here.
Also, who the heck is Stanley Wright?
Yep.. did NOT see that coming! Superior loving has superior consequences!
There’s an after-school public service announcement in here somewhere.
All we had to do was call him a fuck3r, and yet nobody did it. Farewell 100 pts, we never knew you
Crude but accurate!
Did not see this coming.
“And no Kick Points for you! And none for you! No Kick Points for ANYBODY!!” (Voice-over by Oprah)
I take pity upon my readers and do cast about some Kick Points with abandon!
Ohhhh.
OHHHHHH.
That’s a great twist.
Wait, if most of the superhumans in hero city are his bastards, unbeknownst to anyone, chance are… many of his super-powered daughters received “superior loving”. o_0
EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! (etc., etc.)
We’ll have to explore that possibility in the spin-off series directed by George RR Martin.
Okay…
Now what?
So Superior Man doesn’t suffer from the Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex problem?
He has Superior Body Control tm. And Superior potency tm.
Nah, he’s got Superior Loving Skills.
Hm. I’ll take a gamble on his weakness based on this new information. He’s powered by patriarchy… If his own children attack him, or see him as a bad dad, then that saps his powers. Positive enrgy for positive patriarchy, negative energy for negative patriarchy!
Death by (lack of) child support.
Interesting take…
Wait a minute blonde hair blue eyes super powers along the strength line. Who else fits in that category &!
Has & officially changed his name back to Kickman? Did you get litigated for using a false superhero name? How long will the father son fight match go on? How many charges of rape and paternity suit will Superior Man have to face?
Officially? No. He just claimed it back. Since the entire superhero bureaucracy was overthrown the only one who could possibly object would be Superior Man or Joey the Leg.
Nah. Kickman’s not Superior Mans son. Remember chapter 9 Kickman Day One.
Yeah, maybe if the energy aura around his foot were blue instead of yellow…
So evil supervillain unites with his family to produce really evil empire? Ulp…
That said, Superior Man looks pretty good for his age!
Suspect the Superior Children have too much of a Superior Grudge for that.
Now an Alpha Spawn among them might pull it off…
So what happens if Superior Man dies? is his power divided amongst his offspring?
seems likely, which should maybe oughta concern him just a teensy bit, being as that gives them even MORE motivation to take him out.
I tried to draw him as an old guy looking young. Kind of like those professional wrestlers that have been around since I was a kid. Even his tan is supposed to look like it’s sprayed on.
in answer to your question: no, besides the obvious moral quandry here, there’s the likely issue that it could reverse into a ‘The One’ scenario. Like investing, only he did it with his penis, the returns from cashing it it likely would go straight back to Superiorman.
even at a fractional rate of return, that’s stacking on his existing dividends, what you need, is a means to bankrupt his investment, or divert those returns elsewhere. The ‘pool’ he’s dug here is likely biologically generated, but that doesn’t mean it’s staying in place. want to disrupt Superiorman’s powers?
Jailbreak. scatter his offspring elsewhere in the world, where they’re not concentrated near HIM, the flows will likely follow the easiest path (like most energies do) so if it takes more effort for him to draw than, say, “Daughter number Seven” or something, she’ll get a net power increase and he’ll start losing access to the power pool.
alternately, energy leaves trails. He’s got to tap off a distance, (they’re not part of his contiguous body) so devise a detector, and then a jammer-they’ll still have THEIR powers (Internally generated) but he loses the dividends on his investment (power can’t transfer.)
a sufficiently powerful jamming system may well be able to cut him off permanently, which leaves him with only what he’s got stockpiled and what he can generate on his own, and he’s going to be using it, so…
Im thinking one of your magic-user types, now that the line is identified, could probably cobble something together- “Patriarchy” and bloodlines tend to be mystically associated when it comes to this kind of thing, unlike sunshine or nuclear fission, mystical rituals and/or spells and wards may be able to do what collars, implants and the like are unable to do.
Just a few thoughts.
Or they could have children of their own…
I don’t think scattering the offspring will have any effect. WE know that he has exploits around the world, and even off-planet, with no mention of power drops.
Likewise the power jamming is already demonstrated to be ineffective. He took no discernable loss from having so many of his children, including some pretty strong ones, debilitated in the prison; nor did we see any surge in his strength when the damping system was lifted.
I am curious if this is a single-generational thing, or if it’s a pyramid scheme. If he also draws power from the offspring of his offspring, then literal godhood is a possibility down the road.
With that many kids, how is it that no mother has raised a public outcry that “Superior Man left me pregnant”? There should be a hashtag movement in Hero City, “I, also”.
Would not Superior Deadbeat DadMan do the deadbeat dad move of bugging out from the kids?
Snarky posters ask: you decide!
I think it might hinge on what morality he actually subscribes to. If Superiorman’s got a habit of looking down on deadbeat fathers, it’s going to have a superior impact on his mental state knowing he’s sired a bunch of bastards and left them to turn criminal. might see it as ‘hung by his own hypocrisy’, because he might lose that superior confidence.
he certainly reacted quickly enough to Generic Kung Fu Sidekick’s comment about discovering the source of his power-it suddenly became his number one priority, which suggests either he didn’t know, or only suspected and with that suspicion felt a moment of weakness and vulnerability he absolutely HAD to address.
His weakness could well be psychological and linked to having his hypocrisy rubbed in his face, but I doubt it.
Fascinating how many of his kids turned evil. So what is the chance of them joining forces with their dad and ruling the world as his henchmen? Hm would probably end in a massive brawl for the #1 heir spot, the kids killing themselves. But Superior Dad can’t let this happen cause he would loose power. Which means: He actually lost the fight just now cause he can’t kill anyone….
Well, fatherless-ness is the leading cause of criminal behavior. Although I imagine many parents that choose artificial insemination may actually consist of two parents, those kids are lacking a “super” dad though to teach them in the use of their powers.
If only Superior Man had known this. He might never have bothered with world domination / killing off the other Justice League Replicas but simply have gone on a galactic tour of superior loving and sperm donation to reproduce his way to Ultimate Power.
Ooh, foreshadowing…