An evil scientist has erased
Lois Lane's memories, because
comics:
Don't worry--
Kal-El has some
really sketchy pseudo-science to save the day:
Well, it looks like we're along for the ride...
Man, that makes me want a "
Lil' Lois" series so much...
Hmm...there's a
lot to unpack on that page...
See, back in the day,
Lois grew up on a farm, too!! So much for those "
Smallville" cracks to
Clark--she was trying to cover her
own insecurity about being a rural girl in the big city!!
Plus, note that Lois' dad
Sam wasn't always an
asshole xenophobic traitorous general--just a farmer who smoked a pipe. I'm not sure why anyone thinks the current version is an improvement...
A "
Friends & Boyfriends of Lois" series would probably be pretty good, too.
Leonard Splatz--
really?!?!
And then there's the untold tale from Lois' past that
most needs telling:
And then she's all grown up!
And of course, she meets
you-know-who...
And we get probably the
creepiest way to describe the Lois/
Superman relationship:
Barf!!
Anyway, that's Lois' (pre
-Crisis) life.
You're welcome!
From Superman Family #206 (1981)
"I see... 713 attempts to find out Superman's secret identity, 541 attempts to trick him into marriage... good GOD, I'm a horrible person!"
ReplyDeleteIs that Donald Rumsfeld in the first panel?
ReplyDeleteRumsfeld did get around quite a bit in the 80s...
ReplyDeleteI'm a veteran and the son of a veteran with children of my own. At first, I appreciated John Byrne making Sam Lane military, because Byrne used it to explain how Lois learned to handle herself in a dangerous situation; her father had taught her. When later writers turned him into the AXTG you accurately describe, I felt like they'd suckered and slandered me, and I quickly became familiar with the feeling. If a military member or veteran appears in DC after 1990 and Chuck Dixon is not the writer, I estimate a 75% chance he's a heavy -- either the straight-up villain of the piece or someone else who opposes the hero to complicate his life. He or she is also generally close-minded, bigoted, belligerent, rude, and downright mean. The average veteran or active military member portrayed in DC Comics is motivated by either self-interest or a misguided, toxic nationalism that is to patriotism what violent stalker obsession is to love. I stopped reading DC altogether for years, partly because it was embarrassing to pay money to be insulted. Of course, it may have gotten better after the nineties. I've read only a smattering of their products in the years since then.
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