Have you seen the new smallville show. I like the new take on super boy and the way he's wearing blue and red, hinting at what's to come. And Lex as his friend and Lana with the krypton necklace that makes him a klutz around her are great little twist on the mythology.

well if you go with the original comic he didn't get the suit until he went of to metropolis. DC changed that after they started to really use superboy. I have always kinda viewed the original superman and superboy as alternate realities. One where his first experience as a super hero is when he goes to metropolis and another where he's had amazing adventures as superboy and as a member of the legion. The series seems more real to me, especially how their dealing with his feeling that the problems in smallville are his fault. The onlything that is bothering me is how young his parents are but that's just because I'm used to seeing them as much older visually. In order for costumes to work they need a reason for being. Spiderman got there because he's a wrestler, the x-man movie dealt with the costumes as uniforms, the batman movies went with an armor aproach. I like the superman costume but I want to see how he rationalizes wearing the outfit. The scene when he's hazed in the cornfield sets up the idea of the "s" on his chest as something from his past. And later when he's called "superman" it will be a way of relating to an event from his past and turning it into something possitive.I always thought that an alien planet with the same alphabet as earth was week. Although I do like the Alex Ross Kingdom come take on the symbol, it's just abstract enough to be believable.

the superman suit was a red and blue blanket packed in the spaceship by his parents later made into a superman costume involnerable to damage like him. Now in the movie version the S was given to him by his real father, representing his father's position on Krypton. In the comic it was his adopted father who gave him s emblem for the costume.

In the movie the s did not represent an s, it was an alien symbol that only looked like a s, the other chracters had symbols on thier clothes in the movie that did not look at all like an english alphabet letter.

Also we did not get a good look at the blue material from the spaceship in the movie so the costume could have been in the spaceship already complete with s symbol, Put there by his father for the trip However I think the yellow s symbol was seen on the red material when baby Clark lifted the truck off of his adopted father. Clark Kent did have a bag when He went to the Antarctica to build the fortress of solitude, In the bag was the suit from the spaceship, And a green glowing crystal glyph, Containing a message and the power to recreate Krypton technology.