I admit that Lois Lane is definitely a woman who can take any amount of sass from others, which makes me cool my jets when she dishes out sass. If this were a boxing match, that rebuke/counter would have her seeing stars though and I'd be cheering in the crowd.
Boy, is that going to be an awkward, confusing explanation. I presume she does know about Kal's little trip to Earth-666, and the alternate Kara. Still, 'I accidentally found an alternate Earth where the JSA are basically world-wide law enforcement, and something there rattled me' should cover it...
Well, it's your peace of mind to throw away or not.
Try... More of a non-lethal hero. Sort of recalibrate his responses on Earth to not go straight for the railguns.
Yeah, on other planets, he's fairly well-known... Especially after he leaves. But on Earth? 'Cake Man'.
Meanwhile, in Lex's Office: "Why is he just sitting there? Watching... Just watching..." His left eye twitches as his nerves wear thinner and thinner...
Yeah, being a quarter of the planet away should make it a bit harder for Kal to overhear. He's not Silver-Age 'hear a gnat fart from a parsec away' levels, after all.
Heh. Now she can cut loose without tarnishing Clark's image of her, huh?
Goddamit, OL.
Did you manage to break Superman by accident?Heh, telling the defences not to kill on sight, huh? Supes might be a bit miffed if Miss Lane gets singed...
OL, what did you say? See, this is why the League is wary around you! Forget the giant orange snake and the tendency towards lethal force. You broke Superman! By talking!Lois? Feel free to bounce his head off a wall for a few minutes, it'll make you feel better.
OL? Mouth. Stop. Stop with the words please.
Surprised you didn't do the 'zipper closing' gag with a construct. But then, this is no time for comedy...
Neither does anyone else. I suspect you could build a few houses with the bricks that would be shat.
Don't play the fool, OL. You're already halfway there already.I'm wondering why that would trigger him the way it has... Please, do elaborate, OL.
Ah... Yeah, that might be a little depressing...
Well, never know what good living and a little super-science can do for you...
Well. No wonder he's depressed. He's not given the matter that much thought, has he? No wonder he's feeling blue.
I'm betting that'll be a 'I'll cross that bridge when I come to it' process. Or at least he planned to do that, until OL started talking...
I mean, at worst, he can start spreading a little grey dye into his hair at super-speed... For a while at least. At least one older Superman did just that.
It's a very human thing to do, ignoring it until it actually becomes a problem. You can't be blamed for that.
...Yeah, I think enough folks have pointed out the possible continuity error there. No doubt this chapter'll be getting tweaked later, huh? For now, let's carry on as is!Though I don't think Lois has quite the character to become, say, Superwoman or something like that...
Probably for the best. Not sure who he could go to next. Probably not a good idea to visit Billy. Who could be his number three choice?
Lexcorp? This is going to be...
Something.Ah, showing a little professional courtesy, OL?
Thankfully, he should settle down in a day or two. Maybe go on a bit of a walkabout...
True. I really don't think Clark's in the mood for Lex's shit at all right now.
And then Lex starts banging his forehead on the desk, wondering what god he pissed off to suffer like this...
I'm not entirely sure they know.
I mean, given that the Renegade and Paragon are very different guys, with very different ripple effects in the world, it probably won't. There are plenty of people who lived in Paragon but didn't in Renegade. Alan comes to mind. Plus, even if it was pre-destined...Supes has never struck me as the type to give in to "predestination".
Jumped-up elementals damn it, past me. I can't trust you with anything.
Thank you, corrected.
No, but it probably comes from the same place. If anything, it's based on Lois's internal rant in Metropolitan Man, when she realises that he values watching television with her over saving the lives of two children who burned to death down state.
I have a different view on this. I don't think it's much of a jump and it felt pretty easy for me to connect the dots.
In that, the conclusion was partially that Lois was a hypocrite, but here Superman has just talked to someone who, at least to some degree, actually lives that lifestyle. Interesting difference.
Personally that bit never seemed right to me. If you read an obituary in the average day not all that many people die of Superman preventable causes.
You can't end the global slave trade twice.
Neither can Superman. That's why he sticks to Metropolis, has a day job etc.
Are you saying ending the global slave trade was the fault of the British empire? And are you phrasing it as a good or bad thing. Either way, there's still something to be said about not overextending your power so that you don't have to be everywhere, all the time, all at once, because something is eventually gonna give, which was really it's biggest fault.
Yes. Sorry about that, but I think it was best for everyone.
Shouldn't that be 20 or so? Pretty sure coworkers will notice that fossil that's been here 80 years is younger and fitter than most of the staff.
A bit late. Are you completely sure you want to get your Dannering while your boyfriend's still in his prime and your well past it?
That's probably just a Death of Superman reference. He gets better.
They didn't notice that he was fitter than most of the staff when he joined the Planet.
Yes.
No one. Zeus is still fine sponsoring William, and Hephaestean is fine with allowing it.
The problem with that is there's no way Zoat can do that scene justice because it's convincing Superman he's wrong about his core beliefs.
