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There will be spoilers, yes.
Ziparrow, yeah, Lois holds the super-cape! Having both given birth to the sun-god with love (made me think of the blanket to hold a baby in, her stance as a midwife's, maybe, and of course his cape was a blanket at one point), and seen off the Superchrist, holding his Cape of Turin.
The radio-consciouness opening smacks entirely of "For the Man Who Has Everything," but we all know Morrison feels the need to reference every Moore story ever at some point -- but he's done it before, and I liked the (one presumes, possibly maybe) callback to the JLA dream sequence of Kal on Krypton as a Green Lantern from Morrison's "Return of the Key" story. That said, it's a beautiful sequence on the Quitely/Grant side of things, beautiful in much the same way the opening to the Bizarro two-parter was beautiful, and was the most downright symbolic with all the Kabbalistic gold-and-ashes talk. Lois needs to write herself into Promethea and then they need some serious solar honeymoon (heh) time.
Dude, I totally think that the Planet staff know (at least Jimmy does), and I love that even in the face of Lex Luthor having super-powers they're pretty much non-plussed by him. "Oh, yeah, kill us with your eyes, Mister Luthor. Right."
Actually, on reread I'm inordinately happy that they actually followed through and I got my chance to see the Daily Planet versus Lex Luthor!
I love Nasthalthia Luthor, particularly proclaiming "Science Year Zero!" She gets all the great lines. "Uncle Lex! You're literally embarassing me beyond all therapy with this behaviour!" Oh, Nasty.
I try not to think about the parallel between this story and a certain Authority arc that Quitely happened to draw which also involved a madman being defeated by stolen super-empathy.
I truly suspect that on some level, Lex wins in this chapter -- which might be why he achieves that closure Leo "I Thought I'd Have a Bigger Role" Quintum talks about. Clark finally punches someone, punches Lex, outright, comes down to his level (and because of sun-sickness and potion half-life, they are of equal standing) and hits him outright, his endless hope runs out. Except that maybe Lex had it coming and Superman's got one more Labour to accomplish.
He falls, dies, finally-- and then he goes right back up. He is the sun, it's where he's from, and where he's going to.
Blue Sun! Blue Sun!
PLEASE TELL ME I CAN HAVE JIMMY OLSEN'S LIFE. As in: I try to be a little bit more like Jimmy every day. Jetpack! Jodhpurs!
Alternate S-shield for the episode is the 2-Shield. Brilliant reclaiming of the Bizarro cloning.
Gravity Gun stuff was a fun burst of creative Silver Age pseudoscience ("We just read the science news for the headlines!"). I like that we finally got a counterpoint to Clark being catty about Steve Lombard's pranks with Superman being catty about Luthor's stupid plans ("As a matter of fact, I had the whole thing paced out to end pretty much exactly like this." Meow!). Beauty.
The Unified Field Theory is still the core of the series, and we need to tease that monster out! Yes we do! Lois listened and reported with super-powers, whereas Luthor is all about working it out.
And of course MORE SUPERMAN COMING SOON! |
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