The Boy Ain’t Right
As you’ve probably noticed, my three-year-old son’s “nom de blog” is Jak-El.
I just learned that, according to IMDB.com, in an early version of the script for “Superman II,” there were four Kryptonian exile villains instead of three. The fourth member, Jak-El, was supposed to be an evil prankster and source of comic relief, sort of like the Riddler.
In an early script, he is reportedly described as 'a psychopathic jokester, whose pranks and "practical jokes" are only funny to him when they cause death and suffering to others.' The character was later dropped and never cast.
Oh boy. This explains soooooo much.
Forget about military school. How old does a kid have to be before you exile him to the Phantom Zone?
Happy Monday.
posted by Lois Lane @ 1:59 PM
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My father used to have a saying: "Old enough to walk, old enough to be banished to the cold endless void of the Phantom Zone." Pops wasn't much of a poet, but he sure knew how to keep toddlers in line.
Oddly enough, I don't think he ever read a DC comic in his life, and probably only barely knew who Superman was.
-- Lamont Cranston
I was going to say 3 1/2...but Lamont's answer is much more poetic.
3 1/2? Crap. That's a month and a half away, and I'm pretty sure he's building a death ray out of Legos and fruit roll-ups.
A little liquid paper on the birth certificate and you can ship him off tomorrow...
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