8FOLD/META: About the Author # 1: Tom Russell

[Andrew Perron]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:07:09 +0000 (UTC), "Jamie Rosen"
<jamie.rosen at sunlife.com> wrote:

> >Makes sense.  Though if they had *that*, why couldn't they see that
> >their planet was going to explode sooner? >>
> 
> For the same reason Superboy used his time-viewer to show a young Bruce
> Wayne they were going to grow up to be Superman and Batman, but not to
> warn him that his parents would be killed right in front of his eyes.
> (As illustrated at www.superdickery.com)

...yeah, saw that. @-@ Though it looks to me like that's Bruce at
least a few years later.  Wasn't he six or seven years old when they
died?

> Although IIRC Jor-El was the one warning everyone about the destruction
> of Krypton, so maybe he *did* use it for that as well.

Yeah, but you'd think he could pull some people over and just *show*
them.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, see? Planet go boom!