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Today's Superman Has The Stupidest Way To Harness Energy Since The Matrix

Published Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:00:29 -0600

Last updated Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:31:53 -0600

Superman #37 by Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr is published today. Johns is the fellow who, in last week's Justice League #37, gave us a very common sense answer to Superman's supposed dilemma with Zod in the Man Of Steel movie. I rather liked it.

But all that common-sense seems to elude him today. We have an ongoing story where Ulysses, a superpowered individual with a similar story to Superman's in a bizarro fashion, has come to offer the people of humanity a place of refuge on a perfect world. Five million of them.

But today we discover what's really going on.

Firstly anyone remember The Matrix? Originally the plan was for humanity to be part of a living computer, the human brain tapped and wired up by the computer hive mind. Which made a kind of sense, the brain is an incredibly complex computer, especially for its size.

But by the time that had been simplified for an mainstream cinematic audience, humans had been reduced to just batteries. Which would be an incredibly inefficient way of creating energy. Stupidly so.

Cut to today's Superman, when we discover the real reason for the gathering of five million people by Ulysses.

There is no way that's an efficient way to raise energy. There must be cheaper ways of generating "bioenergy". Firstly, making any kind of energy, there are better ways. Burning coal, nuclear fission, it makes more sense. If for some reason it has to be "living" "bio" energy, well that's what plants are for. If is has to be living animal energy for some reason, there are plenty of animals which could be bred for the purpose. Insects even. Plenty of options before going from dimension to dimension rounding up sentient life forms with the tendency to rebel, or have world protectors like Superman…