Has how this new power works, they pretty much explained all the points.
Everyone has pointed out very interesting points, but to me the most troubling part of this Solar Flare power is that it basicaly goes against a lot of stuff already said by other writers. In Lobdell run we got to see that Superman had enough energy to move the mass of the Earth for five straight days without stopping. But now its like saying "Well, you see. Actually he's much more weaker than that".
And I say this because what this new power shows is that Superman power levels aren't that high. After all, if he had enough energy to bench press the mass of the Earth for five straight days, without any sunlight, and he still wasn't nearly depleated. But now he uses this power that totally depleats him and the planet is still in one piece, it's contradictory at best.
If only we'd seen a huge beam of energy exploding into outerspace, then I wouldn't even mention any of this.
But here we're, presented with a power that if used totally drains him of his powers but at the same time isn't that powerful to begin with. Even with H'el his punches were able to shake the entire planet, this solar flare blew up a few miles of landscape but other than that, its pretty much a one-time-one-usage power. And I can't even begin to specify how lame all of this is.
Yes one can say that Superman wasn't at full power seeing he had survived a planet exploding, and had already taken quite some damage from Ulysses, but still... I was expecting more.
And to be honest, Superman didn't need another ofensive energy based attack, that instead of just being fired from his eyes, it's fired from his whole body. Superman needed something way more effective, useful, and not so costly.
I only hope this Solar Flare has more useful uses or it will be very, very short lived.
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