Infinite Crisis: A Tale of Two Luthors

[bagheera_san]

Since I'm bored and still not able to do anything productive, I'm going to spam you all with comic scans to take on the herculean task of explaining Infinite Crisis, with a shameless focus on Lex. On two Lexes, actually, because there are two of them in IC

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[xparrot]

Eee, thank you! I've been so curious what the heck was up with Infinite Crisis (now I just need to find out more about Kon and Lex, I've heard Lex kind of angsts when he dies and such...)

"The last time you really inspired anyone was when you were dead." Oh, Bruce!

"I can give you enough power to get back to that yellow sun..."

--and then he strips umm WHAT now??? So all Luthors have a thing for all Clark Kents, then? "My skin is tingling" - And I thought SV was gay...!!!

Alex has super-theta brainwaves!!! Oh, comics. I should read you just for the delicious, delicious technobabble!

Ack! no!!!! Lex is wearing the purple-&-green-collared...thing...I thought that went out with silver age?! eek! Lex, you were definitely bonked on the head way too many times...

But oh, this does sound sad. (poor Alex! Poor Superboy-Prime, when he finds out what happened to his lover friend! Especially sad if you fan on the villains (dangit! I never meant to become a Lex Luthor apologist. Damn you, SV!)
I don't think I could take comics, I'm finding SV hard enough...

[bagheera_san]

(now I just need to find out more about Kon and Lex, I've heard Lex kind of angsts when he dies and such...)

Kon and Lex is a relationship fucked up by comics lack of characterization consistency. The whole "Superboy is half Luthor half Superman" is a pretty recent thing although Kon has been around for a while. It first was revealed in Teen Titans and then it seemed as if Lex just wanted to use Kon (he had him programmed to follow his orders when he was still a test-tube baby). But then the Titans travelled to this dystopian AU future place where they were all evil (as superheroes usually are in dystopian futures) and Kon calls Lex his daddy there. Then again in IC crisis Lex actually seemed to genuinely care for Kon, at least in a proprietary way (a bit like Lionel). Post IC, Lex had a big Statue of superboy built in Metropolis, which is more of a show of grief than we got from Clark.

"The last time you really inspired anyone was when you were dead." Oh, Bruce!
Batman was uber-angsty in the whole lead-up to IC, what with being mindwiped by his friends and all, but this is seriously one of the best lines of the series, imho.

Lex wears the purple and green because he's had a psychotic break thanks to.... Alex's theta brainwaves. (I must confess I feel a certain... fondness for that outfit. It's just so very much over the top.)

Actually, the funny thing about IC is that the only real heroes of the story are the kids (Kon, Wonder Girl, Nightwing, Kid Flash, etc...), the villains of the Secret Six and Lex (if you ignore the killing of Alex Luthor and some blackmail). Everyone else is either ambiguous or an ass.