Her frantic mind afire with disbelief, Lois felt her bowels release a second before they struck the pavement at Mach 3. Her head snapped back upon impact – but she felt nothing, her brain evaporating as her tissues and bones were instantly pulverized, the viscera and calcium shards mingling with the fabric of her clothes. The force blew the two children across the road, their bodies strewn like rag dolls.

An hour later. three miles beneath the earth, Superman awoke. He felt the familiar ache in his head, smelled the liquor on his breath. Ahhh, godalmighty. I blacked out again. What have I done this time.  Dear God, what have I done.