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The first story I saw on the main page was "The Metropolitan Man".
I thought "OK, I'll give it 10 minutes, see how far it can get".
After 1,5 minute the story displayed a total lack of understanding of middle-school level physics.
Superman prevented an accident by flying into the space between two cars and stopping them with his hands. However, a deceleration on the distance equal to the length of one human arm, is no less lethal than over the (approximately equal) length of the average crumple zone.
I mean, I don't want to poop on the party, but seriously?
sure, and the traditional plot line where superman grabs a plumeting jet would actually lead to the jet tearing like tissue paper around wherever he grabbed it.
A certain level of "ok superman has a small physics-free bubble around him" needs to be granted if you want to do anything with superman.
A lot of ink has been spilled by geeks trying to come up with self-consistent systems under which superman could do what he regularly does in the stories.