Waiting for Clark Kent: An Existential Cartoon
by Author Brad Laidman
Waiting for Clark Kent: An Existential Cartoon isn’t your usual superhero retelling. It follows a too-smart, too-strong, too-lost Clark Kent stumbling through regular life — school, first love, unwanted talent, and the constant pressure of pretending he’s normal. Some days he’s brilliant, some days he’s confused, and most days he’s wondering why everyone else seems to have life figured out. It’s funny, uncomfortable, oddly heartfelt, and sometimes all three in the same sentence.
- A Clark Kent who feels painfully human
- A world where humor and confusion go hand in hand
- A story that swerves between silly, sad, thoughtful, and downright weird
Clark’s journey twists through baseball fields, broken expectations, awkward hopes, and moments where he tries to understand who he’s supposed to be versus who he actually is. It’s an existential coming-of-age story for anyone who ever felt like the strange one in the room, the kid who didn’t fit the mold, didn’t follow the script, or didn’t want the job fate tried to hand them.