Twenty seven years ago, three years after Neil Sinclair became Subject Zero, a meteor shower destroyed Metropolis.
Obviously there was nobody singing “Somebody save me”, and for that there was much rejoicing. One hell of a visual though, right? What kind of meteor storm strikes Metropolis?
Ooooh, that kind of a meteor storm! The kind carrying a baby Kal-El!
Wait a second, this makes Superman 27 years old! WE KNOW HIS AGE!