"Vee haff vays ov makink yo WRITE!"
As many of you are aware, I am not a CLois 'shipper - nor indeed even typically a 'shipper. I find that with the exception of some talented fanfiction writers as well as the more mature and relevant writers working in comics - no one seems to be able to write a Clark and [insert female love interest's name here] pairing to save their lives and that ( Read more... )
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I'm sure you'll be up to the challenge. I wouldn't half-mind if during the course of your story Lois did actually threaten someone with the Ladysmith or the lighter!! :D
On a side note, I guess I'm lucky that I picked up the Supermancomics recently, because the marriage has seemed fine to me, with the exception of being a little too on the sidelines for my taste.
And now off-topic, what the heck is going on with that Donner/Johns storyline? It's been confusing the heck out of me. Couldn't they have run it all in a row, instead of breaking it up with other stories? I would have waited...
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You ARE lucky, because between Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek (Come back onto (Mighty) Avengers and Iron Man! I'm sure Marvel has the money to beat your current exclusive deal!) they have mostly fixed the problems in the marriage. The fact that Lois is very sidelined is also a nagging issue for me because prior to that, after John Byrne rebooted things in Man of Steel in 1986 - Lois became somewhat kick-ass, true to her reporter job, not a damsel in distress and NOT FAWNING OVER SUPERMAN ALL THE TIME!
Pretty much the entire run up to the marriage after Dan Jurgens' run on the Death and Return of Superman, the engagement and marriage went very wonky. It's taken them this long to get it to some modicum of workability.
On the off topic side of things, there are two major reasons for the delay. Donner, while capable of crafting a wonderful story, has had to fulfill his regular Hollywood commitments, and Johns doesn't want to derail the project Andy Kubert, as gorgeous as his art is is historically slow-going (he can only pull off 40 pages of ( ... )
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Well, I still say that they should have let Donner and Kubert finish everything before starting to publish... Sigh.
Do I even WANT to know about Berganza? (I don't read that title - the only thing I know is the Superman-Batman arc from a few years ago).
[And I say it's only fair that Marvel steal them back... I'm not sure these "exclusive deals" are all they're cracked up to be... *still mourns the loss of McKeever*]
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Well, there are moments before Busiek and Johns, don't get me wrong - but in my mind there are only a few exceptions where the CLois is relevant and GOOD. Otherwise she becomes arm-candy to the Man of Tomorrow (which I don't think you'll appreciate much)
Eddie is actually a good editor and well meaning. the problem is that he was the was the editor of Supergirl up until issue #15 when he was taken off the book due to a DC Nation open-letter calling to female fans to help him lift his sales figures.
The book had opened to 55.4k/month EXCL. V. Covers (astounding for a new book with an unclear audience) sales, and had dramatically dropped readers to barely 33.7k INCL. (She-Hulk and Spider-Girl levels of "save me from cancellation please!") inside of four months. In an effort to bolster the book, Eddie wrote this BIZZARE letter, which resulted in the blogosphere spontaneously combusting, and Eddie being excised from the title a couple of months later.
While I agree that they should have been allowed to finish, between DiDio and the Warner ( ... )
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Alright have fun, see you in a week..
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