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All-Star Superman

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Cowboy Scientist

18:17 / 03.04.06

Yeah, the original Red/Blue Superman story... I remember that when Superman uses the anti-evil ray on Russian and Cuban leaders, they stop being communists!

19:52 / 03.04.06

Pure comics nutrition

Pure comics dinner

yawn - thing's buddy

08:53 / 04.04.06

'man, that was the dinner!'

hey, I like that.

cheers guys.

Haus of Mystery

09:13 / 04.04.06

Almost as good as

'That was totally AIRWOLF!'

*props to 'Dave's Long Box' blog for that one.

yawn - thing's buddy

13:54 / 04.04.06

yeah, that works too.

The Natural Way

13:45 / 05.04.06

After watching Lynch's Dune t'other day, I'm down w/:

Mmmmmm SHAI HALUD!

or

Muadib!

19:50 / 05.04.06

'man, that was the dinner!'

SO dinner!

ALL STAR SUPERMAN. It makes even the inane....nane.

yawn - thing's buddy

09:14 / 06.04.06

the olde

'Mo-ahh-deeb'

soundblast is a fave o mine too.

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mo-ahh-deeb ya bas.

11:39 / 06.04.06

Morr'SON!

"My name has become a mindf*ck word"

11:07 / 07.04.06

Captain Mindfucker,

As mentioned upthread with t'comic narrative being used as a advertising tool, Mr Morricone seemed to be experimenting with it: theres the "Luxus" subliminal advertising running throughout the issue. With Steven Lombard's car at the begining with the newspaper sheet tucked in the bottom of it, then there was the immovable object etc riddle, and then on the last page combining the two there was the newspaper sheet falling out of the newspaper with the riddle advertising the "Luxus".

COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT!!!1!

11:13 / 07.04.06

Fiat Lux.

yawn - thing's buddy

12:10 / 07.04.06

It's still an utterly stupid ad, and consequently serves the narrative in a cackhanded fashion.

Why the fuck would you drive a cool new car into a wall?

also - 'answer the question AND pay the price'

at time of reading, did anyone think, "it's usually 'OR'?"

maybe the shit wid the necklace ain't over . . .

12:44 / 07.04.06

Great issue! This series keeps getting better and better. Can't wait for the nice, spiffy hardcover edition.

12:46 / 07.04.06

made me think of 'faster than the speed of wall' from the filth.

also, a bit more mundanely, the cars are blatantly luthorcorp (lexcorp?) and will turn into some city wide 'the cars be gone mad' threat later on: he didn't get all his autogeddon fears out his baldy head with that little bit in miracle man two i doubt.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:11 / 08.04.06

Ah, that would be intriguing. All-Star Superman, cut with finest Monty Python and a little of The Cars that Ate Paris...

01:16 / 08.04.06

Reminds me a bit of those cars from Mister Miracle

11:56 / 09.04.06

Does Superman reading the paper give him the advantage...he knows he's dying but not the hour or the time. Esp if Clark did write it could it be the key bit of info to him escaping that fate...a la the Legion's statue gift in 'whatever happened to...?'

i'm thinking more seveth doctor who (left clues to himself in some stories to tell him how to defeat enemies) than bill and ted slapstic

13:34 / 09.04.06

I looked at it not as a clue (or as slapstick) but a hint to the future. Superman knows he'll survive, because he knows Clark Kent will still be around. He may not know the details, but that's enough.

The key to his personality, this time around, seems to be "Relax. Everything will work out."

Like that guy Grant interviewed in SD. Totally cool and at peace, because he's confident in his own abilities. None of this "self-doubt" memetic infection.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

18:41 / 09.04.06

Mario: The key to his personality, this time around, seems to be "Relax. Everything will work out."

Superman & Lois are an expanded Mister Miracle; there's nothing that Lois can get into that Superman can't get her out of. He's been saving her for years and is supremely confident in his ability to do so.

Also: Superman is the immovable object and Lois is the unstoppable force. They have to surrender to each other. "There has to be one thing I can't help..."

19:16 / 09.04.06

I'd say Lois is the immovable object. She's certainly stubborn enough

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:19 / 09.04.06

I think they switched places...he wouldn't budge on revealing his secret identity, and she wouldn't relent in her quest -- and now they've flipped. She absolutely will not believe he's Clark.

They must surrender...ugh, that sounds so romance novel.

She's an unrelenting journalist. He's a high-flying superhero. They must surrender to their passions...or be destroyed!

21:53 / 09.04.06

It's always been a love story. But what they ought to do it bring back the screwball comedy aspect. I think Grant's touching on that, too.

D Terminator XXXIII

09:54 / 10.04.06

Liking, not loving, it so far. As happened back when New Xmen and X-Force came out, I'm tending towards Milligan. But:

she doesn't really use her powers beyond flight and invulnerability.

Uh-uh. Those panels where she checks out Samson's and Atlas' belts? X-Ray vision. Dirty, dirty Lois.

10:00 / 10.04.06

going for a reread. I missed the riddle as relationship map and the sneaky X - ray peak.
praise be to the barbelith.

yawn - thing's buddy

12:07 / 10.04.06

gumbitch - 'faster than the speed of wall' - oh yeah . . . .

bit esoteric tho, naw?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:20 / 11.04.06

Our little nova, Cassandra: But what they ought to do is bring back the screwball comedy aspect. I think Grant's touching on that, too.

I suspect that you'll end up with a bit of that in #4 with Jimmy "Mister Action" Olsen. But, yes, there is a certain Some Like it Hot element of quick change & screwball slapstick that could blossom a bit more...

A beautiful tunnel of ghosts

10:45 / 11.04.06

Uh-uh. Those panels where she checks out Samson's and Atlas' belts? X-Ray vision. Dirty, dirty Lois.

Rereading this last night, I couldn't identify the panels in which Lois is shown using x-ray vision.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:22 / 11.04.06

I was a little unimpressed that the Superwoman story didn't actually feature Lois being very super in general, now did it? A little flight, surviving radiation, and otherwise being a pretty prize isn't much. I was expecting her to revel in the power! I would, I think most people would - twenty-four hours of super-power...why not carve her initials in the moon? Or write a report from an alien battlezone?

D Terminator XXXIII

15:29 / 11.04.06

Rereading this last night, I couldn't identify the panels in which Lois is shown using x-ray vision.

Aye, but when has it normally been shown that Supes' eyes change when using x-ray? Look at Lois' facial expression when looking at Samson's and Atlas' "belt buckles" -- and after all, if endowed with Superman's powers for 24 hours, wouldn't you? Echoes of silver age ads, I guess.

D Terminator XXXIII

15:42 / 11.04.06

(And oh, re: Dino-Czar, was Li-czar-d taken?)

15:47 / 11.04.06

>>>why not carve her initials in the moon?

I thought they had sex on the moon and left huges holes all over the place (I will never be able to look at the moon, and not remember this image, thank God).

I thought it was pretty clear that it would be pretty much a romantic story since the first thing Super did after he discovers that he's dying is reveal his S-shaped heart to Lois at the end of #1. This is all the comic is about, him revealing his heart in a self-confident way, opposite to all grim self-doubt heroes that plays pranks on ladies and push them away for too many years. Lois is f*(&$# traumatized with years of a f(&$#-up relationship, right? She just won't budge.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

16:29 / 11.04.06

Sparrow: I thought they had sex on the moon and left huges holes all over the place (I will never be able to look at the moon, and not remember this image, thank God).

Well, the 24-hour exo-genes do maneuver nicely around any "Women of Kleenex" arguments.

I didn't have a problem with the romance, but I expected that Lois would want to play with her powers more while she had them; and she calls herself a "crusading journalist," some desire to right wrongs is there...although I suppose, even with super-powers, the journalist-as-recorder element comes in and she's the witness character (watching a champions' match, for example), forgetting her powers.

Based on the ending of #3 - "I can do more than just be Superman," the newspaper byline, and the mixed success of bring Lois up to Kal's "level" (super-wise), does anyone else foresee Mister Kent in a Red Sun Chamber a la Superman II, by the end of this? Trying to become a regular old human being?

18:52 / 11.04.06

hm, that'd be very interesting, Papers. maybe the sollution to Supes' sun poisoning.

I saw the whole point of her being super for a day more of the main reason for Atlas and Samson getting interested in her and moving things along [helping Supes show how he's far superior than them] in this issue.

21:50 / 11.04.06

yeah, I must admit to being dissapointed that this issue wasn't Lois enjoys superpowers for a day. I mean that would rock on its own surely? but this ties in with all of GM's stuff post vol 1 of da invisibles...he doesn't write what i want but i love what he does...often eventually (a la Filth)
and I guess we still have to see Lois operating on a post superpowers comedown...
and having said that she's involved in stopping a dino invasion, goes to posidenous (sp) and snogs Supes* on the moon (that page!)...i suppose that ain't too bad a use of powers for a day.

*I only say it to annoy John Byrne

(Threadrot: JB did a message board rant where he told people off for using diminutives like Supes, Bats, Reddy...his arguement something like 'when you've been part of the justice league then you can call them what you like till then show some respect. I so wanted to join up and reply that I'd been a member of the justice league since i was 5 and saved the world plenty and Superman knew that when i called him that it was love AND respect (and even Bats smiled) but obviously didn't. End threadrot. apologies drunk)
love

A beautiful tunnel of ghosts

13:19 / 12.04.06

Aye, but when has it normally been shown that Supes' eyes change when using x-ray?

Within ASS, the panel in which he reads the newspaper shows a pearlescent sheen to his eyes. This would seem to be x-ray vision, and is also suggested by his exclamation as he gives the answer to the question - which, as someone elsewhere has noted, he read in the newspaper.

Look at Lois' facial expression when looking at Samson's and Atlas' "belt buckles" -- and after all, if endowed with Superman's powers for 24 hours, wouldn't you? Echoes of silver age ads, I guess.

Does Samson have a belt buckle? I'd interpreted their conversation as that of preening braggarts more invested in comparing masculinities than in Lois - Samson is eager to brag about Lois' perceived attention, desperately for her validation, while Atlas is confident that there is no comparison between them - his size assures his success.

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