Sunday, August 5, 2012

Bold Fashion Choices--Still Better Than The nu52 Version

Lana Lang has a present for Superman!

Uhh...you probably want to keep your day job, Lana.

Lois, certainly out of concern for Superman and not the least bit out of jealousy, raises an important objection:


Uhhh...jet engine exhaust is searing flames?!? What kind of planes are flying out of Metropolis airport?!?


Well, those costumers, despite being uglier than a babootch's butt, pass Superman's version of the John Cameron Swayze Timex Torture Test...and Kal-El is grateful!!

Well, Lois is jealous, but Lana counters with pop culture references!!

So how DID Lana come up with indestructible (and ugly) super-suits??

Simple...

She had a genie make them for her!!

Except, of course, Vitar wasn't really a genie...he was a Kandorian who had fallen in love with both Lois and Lana from afar, and this was all a plan to get one of them to fall in love with him.

Oh, and that wasn't Superman who accepted the suits and kissed Lana...that was also Vitar, posing as Kal-El, as part of his over-complicated love scheme.

Oh, Silver Age, how we love you.

And now we know the likely origin of the nu52 costumes: a genie was trying to get Jim Lee to fall in love with him, and...

Oh, and speaking of Timex...here's Green Arrow doing a watch commercial...



From Lois Lane #76 (1967)

4 comments:

  1. I don't know what I like better....Lana's expression in the second panel or that I might start trying to work "Well I'll be a Kryptonian babootch" into my lexicon!

    (or number three: babootch had no autocorrect option nor spellcheck error!)

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  2. Make sure you use the more famous variant, as well: "Well, I'll be a three-eyed Kryptonain babootch!"

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  3. Where's Cat Grant when you need her to write a fashion column... or steal Superman from these two once and for all.

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  4. Love struck genie is the best explanation I have heard for the entire New 52 so far.

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