A Question About The Dark Knight Returns Part 2. Spoilers if need to be warn

[Primemao]

So Superman deflects a Soviet nuclear missile and hit with the blast. Which badly injured him and the detonation creates an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out all electrical equipment in the United States, and causes a nuclear winter. Then he grabs a flower and sucks the life out of all the plants nearby to make him well again.


Well it's said afterwards that he is not at full power because of the nuclear winter blocking sunlight. Well my question is couldn't he just fly into the earth thermosphere or higher to get a greater concentration of sunlight to be at full power again?

[Spike-X]

That's what he does in the comic. Does that not happen in the cartoon?

[CrazyOldHermit]

That's what he does in the comic. Does that not happen in the cartoon?

I don't remember him doing that in the comic.

[Spike-X]

I don't remember him doing that in the comic.

I beg your pardon, you're right. That doesn't happen in the comic. I must be thinking of another story.

But the OP is right, he could indeed have done that.

[Billy Batson]

Logic *shrugs*

[R0NIN]

Because like always they needed to further depower him and make him look dumb to play up Batman's awesomeness.