Scans: Man of Steel Annual #3

[bagheera_san]

I mentioned this yesterday when I posted the first chapter of my new WIP "The Light and The Silence" and promised scans of. It's an Elseworlds Superman story, but with additional Batman. Sadly, it is also from the nineties

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[valkyrie4clex]

Then I say _"Come on Alien invasion!!!! SMALLVILLE (WE) need you!"

Thanks for the scans also.

[bagheera_san]

You're welcome!

[ethrosdemon]

WOW! I didn't even KNOW about this book. TERRIBLE!

I have wondered for some time where the whole Kryptonian morality thing came from. You see it in "Last Man of Earth" as well.

[bagheera_san]

It's how the kryptonians were reinvented after the first crisis/continuity reboot, I think. I like the idea, even though it doesn't always make sense.

[miss_tress]

I'm getting a very strong Movie!Wolverine vibe from this Lex. But that just might be from beard-having, cigar smoking, and alcohol drinking. Where does he keep that chair and glass?

And it's nice to see that Jor-El and his dickish plans to make Clark do what he wants isn't something that was original to Smallville.

[bagheera_san]

But that just might be from beard-having, cigar smoking, and alcohol drinking. Where does he keep that chair and glass?
I don't think this Lex ever parts with his glass. He keeps it nearby, probably in his jetpack ;) The Wolverine vibe is the strongest in that pic where he leans against the doorjamb at the Kents'!

[miss_tress]

*loves crazy Elseworlds*

*but really can't deal with Lex and all that hair* That's what keeps me enjoying Superman comics from the era of "Lex is a clone of himself". I like mullet!Superman more than I do hair-having!Lex.

[bagheera_san]

I could deal with hairy!Lex if it wasn't for the beard. Red beards never look good. (If his hair wasn't, like, fire-engine red, one could imagine him to look a bit like Lionel, to which I wouldn't object.)

[jakrar]

Poor Lex -- not only does he end up in the hospital, but he has to put up with that hair.... Thanks for posting!

[bagheera_san]

Believe me, this Lex has a much nicer fate than 99.9% of all comics Lexes. He's buff, merely morally ambiguous instead of the antichrist and he doesn't die. And he doesn't marry anyone horrible!

[jakrar]

I see your point. Poor Lex! Fate -- or DC's version of it -- really has in it for him. *pets Lex*

[attaccabottoni]

*insert cries of horror* Those frills! They make those body suits look like skin-tight infant clothes (*recalls a costume in a CSI episode horrifyingly reminiscent of it*)! I'm sure they're symbols of social status or something, but it just doesn't make them look like the advanced race they're supposed to be.

Even Lois, though, doesn't want Lex to stupidly kill himself with his nipple-lasers. Ded by bad fashion choices.
*LOLs at your cheerful commentary* This and the visuals were so brain-breaking... thank goodness Lex survived, because I might start thinking that reading Elseworlds is a test for the resilience threshold of my sanity. :D

Luthor was right. Guess we're all stuck with each other.
Of course he's right. And yay, Clex! XD

I have a sinking feeling those nipple lasers would appear in a nightmare...

[bagheera_san]

The frills are just so completely... useless. I like that they're a very alien touch - I reckon no human male (and hopefully most human women) would ever be caught wearing them. (But whoever designed this particular comic was clearly fashion-retarded to the max. Just look at those yellow rectangles on Lois' costume!)

Elseworlds really drive it home that the DCU is highly deterministic. Free will isn't really much of an option there.