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[scarfman]

• Sun, 16:21: #AKOTAS update: this might get worked out for tomorrow. http://t.co/iNCjdbupD8 #webcomics #kingarthur
• Mon, 07:04: Seriously? The character is eighty years old and suddenly the big question everywhere is, how does he shave? #manofsteel
• Mon, 08:53: I'm a big man. I'd rather lumber than waddle, but it takes effort. Too much effort, after all this packing/moving/ankle-twisting.
• Mon, 10:02: Ellsberg says that the US is not yet a police state but that Snowden has shown the infrastructure for us to become one is ready to go.
• Mon, 10:52: The XBox1 is also an NSA surveillance camera, a lie detector, and a cell phone signal jammer that works only on iPhones.
• Mon, 11:00: I suspect most Americans are too complacent to take action in opposition to the deterioration of our government. I know I am.

Comments

[pedanther]

Seriously? The character is eighty years old and suddenly the big question everywhere is, how does he shave?

Because it's not as if the comics haven't already answered the question multiple times.

(The occasion that springs to mind was 20 years ago, in the John Byrne miniseries coincidentally titled "The Man of Steel".)

[scarfman]

Yes, that's the same instance I cited when I first saw the question being bandied about.

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

I don't know what John Byrne's answer was, but adamantium razor? (I know, wrong universe.)

[scarfman]

If there's someone else in the apartment, Clark turns on an electric razor (probably a gift) for sound effect; then he burns the whiskers away with super vision reflected off the mirror.

[scarfman]

I do though also seem to recall, from the silver age, something about blades made from the windshield of the rocket he arrived in. Wait, I'm thinking of the lenses of his glasses.

[sidhekin.livejournal.com]

Heh. Back then, his hair wouldn't even grow under a yellow sun (and this was well known), but if he was exposed to the light of a red sun, he'd eventually get stubble. As he did in preparation for a challenge: "I can do something Superman cannot: Shave." And shave it off he did, with a razor of Kryptonian metal or something.

(No, not kryptonite. Possibly scraps from the rocket. But back then he could happily travel back in time to Krypton to pick up new glasses when his original pair (from pieces of the rocket's windshield, shattered by Kryptonian fuel explosion) was stolen by another time traveller ... Kryptonian metals would be as easy.)

Oh man ...