Superman #701 (comicsalliance.com)
6. Killing the Messenger
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Are you kidding me? Seriously? Fine, whatever, let’s talk about the next dumb moment.
As the violent drug dealers run back into their houses to prevent the massive explosion-in-progress, Superman turns to a five-year-old child and tells him to give the drug dealers a message when they return. When they return angry. And probably wielding weapons. And they don’t seem like the types to go easy on a child who’s telling them that Superman says to leave town. Superman: probable child murderer by association.
Couldn’t Superman just wait around and tell the drug dealers himself? In a way that wouldn’t literally be child endangerment? Superman’s done some dumb things before, but this might be the most careless and dumb. I mean, I don’t even think Deadpool would leave a child to face the cast of The Wire alone.
