First of all, I want to say that I am enjoying this story a lot. I like how you decided to have "Clark" go to New Krypton with "Superman" as a cover story. I've always thought this was the most logical cover story to use but up till now had never read a story that took that direction.
This chapter was tough and certainly relavant to our times but it sort of threw me because the type of shooting you described as being common in the story didn't actually happen in the 90's. I did a quick google search to be sure. Although there were 100 incidents that qualified as school shootings during that decade (in the whole country) they were isolated incidents, often gang related or an attack on a single person. I also don't think any of them occured at elementary schools. It wasn't until Columbine in 1999 that shooting of this scale occured. Most often the gunmen used pitols and other hand guns, not AR-15.
Also, I feel that i should point out that an AR-15 is not an assault weapon. Assault weapons are machine guns. An AR-15 is semi-automatic (only one bullet per trigger pull). The "AR" stands for Armalite, the name of the company that created it. Media likes to push the phrase "assult rifle" as anti-gun propaganda but an AR-15 is really no different than any standard hunting rifle. It just looks scarier because it has rails for sights and other hardware.
All this being said, you are of course writing a work of fiction, and writing an alternate universe at that so you are welcome to write whatever you want. I just wanted to share a bit of gun education before I read on, perhaps to help in your later works.
Again, loving the story. It is probably the most unique take on alt-Clarks future I have ever read. Curious to see what happens with Clarks visions and such from the other Clark.
Last edited by AmandaK; 11/17/23 03:43 PM.
