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Originally posted by Dave:

Setting aside the temperament of Lois Lane (a character I confess I'm not fond of), I still like the idea of a superbaby. They've got to do something to spice up Supes, and as cheap publicity grabbing gimmicks go, this is a doozy.

(Heaven help us that there'd be good writing instead...)
Hasn't that been the problem with Superman for the past decade now?

Let's kill him!

Let's bring him back!

Let's waste Metropolis!

Let's get rid of the Clark Kent identity!

Let's bring it back!

Let's have Lois dump him for no good reason!

Let's have him lose his powers!

Let's get him married!

Let's have him turn into an electric blue Smurf in a Village People suit!

Let's have him split in into Superman-Blue and Superman-Red, only it won't be as good as the old Elseworlds tale!

Let's have him go back to being his old self!

Let's have him get brainwashed into becoming a dictator!

Let's take away The Daily Planet!

Let's bring it back!

Let's make his marriage abusive and unhappy...and keep it that way!

Let's give him a kryptonite disease!

Let's get him fired from the Planet!

Let's have Lex discover Clark is Superman, only to end up forgetting it!

Let's introduce a new Supergirl who might be Superman's daughter!


And so on and on...

Please, no more cheap gimmicks. Superman's been burdened with enough already.

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Is that how Supes works now? So he didn't have powers as a kid?
Not in the post-Crisis timeline, no. His powers developed slowly over time. He even got his arm broken when he was a kid.