This is an amazing story based on “The Clan of the Fiery Cross”, which Yang recaps in his essay “Superman and Me” (p. 228). I cried twice while reading it.

Something I found interesting: Yang mostly[1] represents non-English languages as transliterated text in different colors. Chinese is in red, Kryptonian in green, and just now, Yiddish in cyan. I guess I didn’t even think of “oy gevalt” as not being part of English, but in Smallville, in 1936, I suppose it was as foreign as anything else.

[1] Except for the text in a Kryptogram, if you’ll pardon the expression. Kryptonian is also represented as a cipher that the reader can decipher for an additional layer of fun. Here’s a hint: the word that looks like one big barcode is actually three letters—you are welcome.