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Rambling usually ignores it when Dean Cain posts one of his tirades against liberal Hollywood. We held our tongue when the Lois & Clark star turned honorary ICE agent went after Disney’s multicultural Snow White remake. We kept our lips zipped when he took a shot at James Gunn’s “pro-immigrant” Superman. But now, with his dig at Milly Alcock’s Supergirl — sharing posts about how her portrayal violates Kryptonian physics because her bulletproof ears are pierced — we can stay quiet no longer.
Because the 59-year-old MAGA actor has stumbled into a debate that’s been vexing DC fans for more than six decades. Never mind Supergirl’s ear piercings: How did her cousin shave his presumably indestructible beard?
An early attempt at resolving this grooming conundrum came in 1960’s Action Comics No. 262, which suggested that under Earth’s yellow sun, Superman’s hair didn’t grow. But five months later, in Superman No. 139, Kal-El asks Supergirl and Krypto to burn off his whiskers with their heat vision. A quarter-century later, legendary DC writer-artist John Byrne tried to settle the argument in his 1986 series The Man of Steel, coming down hard on the side of heat vision, this time reflected off a hunk of metal from the rocket Superman flew to Earth in as a baby.
