Scans: DC Halloween Special, Supergirl #57

[mithen]

DC Halloween Special:  Written by Brian Keene, Art by Stephen Thompson
Supergirl 57:  Written by Sterling Gates, Art by Bernard Chang

A couple of quick shots from recent comics!  The first is a Superman-Etrigan team-up from the DC Halloween Special.  Clark gets attacked by a demon that feeds on despair, which sends him visions of being rejected by

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[dovewing]

The scans are awesome, and I like the art in the Supergirl, but if you're going to include Bizarros, for god's sake either write the bizzaro-speak correctly or get someone who knows how. If it isn't hurting my brain to read, they're doing it wrong.

I adore that Superman's Bruce-related nightmare situation = Bruce finally going nuts and killing his rogues gallery. It speaks to the strength of their friendship, yes, but that the core of it is that Superman believes in Bruce's goodness, even when Bruce doesn't himself. In order to reject Clark, Bruce must reject the good in himself.

[mithen]

if you're going to include Bizarros, for god's sake either write the bizzaro-speak correctly or get someone who knows how. If it isn't hurting my brain to read, they're doing it wrong.

I know! It kind of actively broke my brain that it wasn't backwards! I kept flipping everything and then realizing that it didn't work that way...

In order to reject Clark, Bruce must reject the good in himself.

I like the way you put that. :)

[schala_kid]

If you're going to include Bizarros, for god's sake either write the bizzaro-speak correctly or get someone who knows how. If it isn't hurting my brain to read, they're doing it wrong.

Well they're no rights and wrongs in Buzarro speak anymore, and everyone writes them differently. Plus the comic justifies this by saying that all Bizarros have their own way of speaking (I think Bizarro Superman speaks backwards while Bizarrogirl doesn't).

[tabru]

The yin to your yang.

Oh, hello favorite trope! *waves*

sees Lois growing old and dying while he stays young (*sniffles*)

*wails* That is heartbreaking! Oh Clark! Sometimes I wish he would do what Arwen did and give up his immortality...

...Yeah, I went there. Nerd, nerd, I am a nerd. :D

[schala_kid]

IMO I think Clark will most likely die saving the world/universe/dimension before old age (I mean he already did, so chance of happening again with his type of "career choice" is pretty high).

[mithen]

It is true--who would have thought "Well, he'll probably get killed fighting" would be the happy ending to a person's life, lol? But it definitely is!

[mithen]

I know, the yin/yang trope, I love it so!

And man, there have been SO MANY little reminders of Clark outliving everyone in canon recently, it's making me rather antsy. It's just too sad! LOL, don't worry, you're not the only person to see Arwen parallels there, not at all...

[kirax2]

"The yin to your yang"! *melts*

Is it any wonder that we ship them?

[mithen]

I know, it's...such a sexy image, lol. It works well with friendship too, of course, but it can't be a surprise when the mind wanders elsewhere...

[schala_kid]

Why do weird alien parasite things like to latch on to Clark? (black mercy then this) But I do know that demons find Clark's pureness really attractive. I think it's the fact that they want to corrupt him or twist it and take it as a prize

[mithen]

Oh, your thoughts on Clark and the dead PZ criminals are really interesting. I mean, if you killed someone, but you don't remember it...and no one else remembers it...and they're not even dead anymore...what's the moral weight of all that? It's kind of like what happened to Peter and MJ...

Yeah, I thought they did a good job in the Supergirl arc of making her a reflection, but not an opposite...there's more character in it that way, I think, and it works better for Kara's self-discovery in the arc. It was really well done!

[schala_kid]

I know right? I mean after IC they could have left that whole thing alone but Kurt Busiek brought it back up and it's just a dangling plot thread now.

[squonkfan]

(he even scans fairly well, although I don't think that's how you pronounce "psyche")

LOL!

I am so utterly not a comics person but these have been awesome.

[mithen]

*grin* I love posting scans here and there just to give little shots of what's going on the DCU...comics can be such a pain in the ass to follow, sheez. :P