Adult Steven narrates how he always thinks about that time, what was said about his grandmother, and about what was muttered concerning the "family secret" between his parents and the doctors.

In the present, as Steven finishes his current comic book project, his agent calls offering him a job to write Superman.

He doesn't tell her the details after he calls her, because he is afraid to talk about the "family secret" that claimed his grandmother: Huntington's disease.

These recent events lead back to Steven breaking down Superman: from how flawed the concept of his invulnerability is compared to Achilles, or even the Titanic were until they weren't; which in turn leads to the concept of the fictional Kryptonite, and then back to the real life Huntington's.

With the issue with Huntington's, his father, and hating Superman when he feels he's a fascist, a troubled Steven turns down the job to his editor.

It is then that Steven reveals what was said back when his grandmother died: if his father and mother knew about Huntington's in their family, they weren't have had their children in the first place.

His father stops and breaks down, to which they along with Dave hug, gaining hope that they'll have the strength to confront any obstacle.

In an interview on UGO Networks, Seagle stated that he worked as a fill-in writer until Jim Lee took over to write what later became Superman: For Tomorrow.

Teddy Kristiansen won an Eisner Award for his work on It's a Bird... in 2005, in the category of Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior).