Boys and girls, your attention please.

This is 99% invisible.

Presenting a new exciting radio program featuring the thrilling adventures of an amazing and incredible personality.

I'm Roman Mars. Faster than an airplane, more powerful than a locomotive.

Impervious to bullets.

Up in the sky, look, it's's a bird it's a plane hit Superman

I'm willing to concede from the get-go that I might be wrong about the entire premise of this story, but Superman has never really worked for me as a character.

I prefer the more grounded Marvel comic book characters like Spider-Man who lived in real cities and had human thoughts and feelings.

Superman is basically invincible, unrelatable, and whoosed establishment.

and even though I really love the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie,

it contains a perfect example of why I don't really dig the character.

This is a 25-year-old spoiler alert, but at the end of the 1978 movie, all the greatness of that film

is nearly undone by the fundamental flaw of having a

character that is all powerful when Superman flies around the earth backwards and

turns back time. The first thing we got to get clear is that he's not share.

He doesn't turn back time at the end of Superman.

That's Glenwelden, author of Superman The Unauthorized biography, grasping for an explanation.

It's been long established in the comics that if he flies faster than the speed of light, he goes, he travels in time.

So that's exactly what he's doing except he's just

spinning round and round the earth really really fast so the reason everything goes

backwards is not because he's actually spinning the earth backwards on its axis making time go backwards. We're just

watching him travel back in time. We're seeing it through his eyes so that's what's

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