scans_daily: The "superman is dick" tour of the fortress of solitude...

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@ 2010-01-07 09:16 pm UTC

The "superman is dick" tour of the fortress of solitude...

I don't know what was going on with this Bronze age jem. Superman comes off as a self-centered douche...

Super ego much ?

Not exactly free-range.

So, it turns out Superman has a friend list. Due to his own world's destruction ,he made a plan to escape Earth if he needed to.

If you made the friends list, fine . If not , well tough luck...

era: Bronze age, char: superman/clark kent, char: supergirl/kara zor-el, char: lois lane, Title: DC Super special no.5

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	no subject foxhack 2010-01-08 02:28 am UTC (link)
	And he wasted a spot on Aquaman? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject iskander 2010-01-08 02:31 am UTC (link)
	Truly... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject jlroberson 2010-01-08 03:59 am UTC (link)
	Actually, that was dickery too. "Oh, by the way? No ocean. Or water." (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

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	no subject auggie18 2010-01-08 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, some of us like Aquaman. And also, it's a space mission and they need some red-shirts for it to work. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject cmdr_zoom 2010-01-08 02:30 am UTC (link)
	I have this. It is marvelous giant-sized crack. (Reply to this)

	no subject mugiwara 2010-01-08 02:30 am UTC (link)
	"lock of Lois hair"??? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

	no subject iskander 2010-01-08 02:32 am UTC (link)
	Creepy stalker shrine... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 7 comments) (Show 7 comments)

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	no subject jlroberson 2010-01-08 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	In case he needs to regrow her after staring too hard one day. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject blakeyrat 2010-01-08 02:35 am UTC (link)
	Skip a magical zoo tour? Just because the world's coming to an end? Pshaw. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject iskander 2010-01-08 02:38 am UTC (link)
	I wonder what happend to "the living wheel" from the last tour ? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject darkblade 2010-01-08 02:39 am UTC (link)
	Wouldn't having an exhibit to the reporter you are never seen at the same time as make people more suspicious. Just saying. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject iskander 2010-01-08 02:46 am UTC (link)
	It is called "the fortress of solitude" for a reason. It is not open to the public. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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	no subject sistermagpie 2010-01-08 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Wow, that Lois room's creepy. You can't help scanning the people in the plane to see who got cut out. But given that Superman's diary is the size of a building, you'd think he'd make a bigger plane. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject iskander 2010-01-08 02:46 am UTC (link)
	...or die trying to save the Earth ? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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	no subject nagaoka 2010-01-08 03:05 am UTC (link)
	Yes, OF COURSE you made a shrine to yourself to keep people from being suspicious. Yep. Uh huh. I believe you. (Reply to this)

The crack nourishes me!

proteus_lives
2010-01-08 03:12 am UTC (link)

1. Captain Marvel: "Yeah....Supes? Can I not be in your Super-Stalker museum?"

2. There are no black/latino/asian/indian people on that escape shuttle. SUPER-RACISTDICKERY!

3. Supes has to know that a couple dozen people isn't a viable genetic pool. They're there to be his toys, so he can play forever and ever.

4. It's about having the power of life and death for Supes, isn't?

5. Supe's LJ page must be epic.

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	Re: The crack nourishes me! darkblade 2010-01-08 05:51 am UTC (link)
	I just see him trying to blog with that telepathic typing machine. "Damnit I was not thinking about gay sex with Bruce. Stop typing it this instant." (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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galateus
2010-01-08 03:34 am UTC (link)

Hey, I know that 'bravado beast'! And that dancing plant. And the venus butterfly. And the metal eaters with a taste for Kryptonite. *prepares a followup post*

Bronze Age Superman is so awesome how it embraces the random stuff the Silver Age threw in for no good reason and promptly forgot about the next day.

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	no subject pallas_athena 2010-01-08 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	awaits post with interest Man, I would really like a dancing plant. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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	no subject mystery 2010-01-08 03:53 am UTC (link)
	OOoooooH! OMG! That third from the last panel is like... the best thing I've ever seen. Ever! Superman's driving, and everybody better get on board! (Reply to this)

	no subject jaybee3 2010-01-08 03:57 am UTC (link)
	"Jimmy Olsen, Ace Reporter"? What is this? Bizarro Jimmy? And considering how much Super-dickery Silver Age/Bronze Age Supes did to Lois, him having a shrine to her (lock of hair and giant swimsuit poster included) is so ironic. (Reply to this)

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jlroberson
2010-01-08 04:05 am UTC (link)

>>If you made the friends list, fine. If not , well tough luck...

Superman's favorite movie when he was a kid was WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, which Ma thought a bit creepy, but what could she do? But he took notes on the selection of survivors.

And yeah, basically he saves his friends, and then some others on the other side, his friends also being there to keep them in line. The superheroes will use them as breeding stock. Except Batman, who can speak his true love at last.

And poor Perry. Wasn't divorced yet, you see. Guess he'll have to get friendly with Gordon, who's in the back asking, "Barbara? Barbara, are you here?"

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	Re: Oh, Cold War Era and Your Terrifying Idea of Utopia iskander 2010-01-08 04:08 am UTC (link)
	Oh I totally think supes dresses the superbots of the fortress in batman's uniform and they just...dance. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

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schala_kid
2010-01-08 04:19 am UTC (link)

Ah Silverage Superdickery but then again everyone in the silver age was a dick with some serious issues.

I like to believe that post-crisis Superman would find a way to destroy whatever threatened earth or risk his life doing it and if he had to evacuate it would be everyone on earth. And if he couldn't he would certainly decide who got to live or die and would give his spot to another.

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jlroberson
2010-01-08 04:46 am UTC (link)

I think what many forget about stuff like MIRACLEMAN and WATCHMEN back then was that we were used to looking at Superman, and certainly many DC heroes, in that well-they-know-best way. Which I think was one form, in children's pop, the internalization of the soft totalitarianism of the West took then(which was much subtler and more successful, but very much there), a kind of fatalistic optimism only possible when you believe the world could be destroyed instantly. But superheroes are no longer, basically, parent figures. They very much were then, one of the reasons DC started running up against squarehood in the late 60s through the early 70s--DC characters were parental protectors. You could imagine BEING Spider-Man.

What the above works were addressing was that, but now we see different aspects in the fore because they kind of shattered that very flat good vs. evil polarization DC once took for granted. But then chose to wallow with it rather than run, sadly. But think of this Superman and then think of the observational isolation and distance of Dr. Manhattan, or of Miracleman once Mike Moran is out of the picture.

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tacobob
2010-01-08 05:42 am UTC (link)

Barry looks like he's thinking, "Iris? Wally? Oh great! You had to bring Aquaman and the old man who didn't even bother to remove the freaking cigar from his freaking mouth even when we were in the spaceship, but not a single person I know!"

And look at the mask the Flash is holding..Wait, that's not a mask! It's Zombie Deadpool's Head! It's even growling! "Feed Me!"

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	no subject darkblade 2010-01-08 05:56 am UTC (link)
	Of course mutant zombie heads from alternate realities in different multiverses make perfect sense to be brought on the space ark. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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	no subject darkblade 2010-01-08 05:57 am UTC (link)
	A few days later Hal who was in space at the time shows up and he is pissed that he wasn't on Supes's friends list. Until he realizes that Coast City Blew up and he just starts killing people. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject aeolos_sakya 2010-01-09 05:24 am UTC (link)
	Until he realizes that Coast City Blew up and he just starts killing people.Oh, god. Your comment totally made me LOL. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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lamashtar
2010-01-08 08:03 am UTC (link)

This is wierd. I was just looking up early appearances by Hal Jordan to hunt down that I didn't have, and Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane 14 is one of the first outside the regular Green Lantern/Showcase stuff.

Judging by the plot exposition (Superman cowering from a monster that fears yellow), Jordan will ALSO be hiding from the color yellow. :P

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	no subject galateus 2010-01-08 01:19 pm UTC (link)
	Huh, where did you look it up? I'm pretty sure he isn't actually in that one. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

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	no subject geoffsebesta 2010-01-08 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	why did he save the Riddler? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

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icon_uk
2010-01-08 06:57 pm UTC (link)

Wow... this really IS supreme Superdickery... So Lois, Diana, Kara and Lois are the only females left to propgate the human race, and one of them isn't even human? No wonder Dick is so quick to take his mask off, he needs to stake his claim on a female NOW!

It's also not like Clark and Kara actually NEEDED seats on the spaceship that could have been given to a couple of humans..

Interestingly, the little box-like alien with the mirror obsession first appeared in a Super Friends story in 1976.

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	no subject erastoinen 2010-01-08 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	I think I remember this one - it was the real Batman there, just pretending to be a statue and playing some really bizarre and dangerous prank on Superman, right? Superman isn't the only superdick around, just sayin'. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject jlroberson 2010-01-09 01:56 am UTC (link)
	Actually, i think it ended up being Luthor, pretending to be someone called Dominus, and it was an amazingly convoluted plan involving causing the zoo animals to expose the contents of Supes' Pit of Annihilation(or whatever it's called), which would then destroy the earth. Which makes you wonder why Superman has the thing in the first place. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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	no subject autumn_lily 2010-01-09 03:10 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure what disturbs me more about these pages: the giant diray (oh Emo!Superman!), the vague sexual imagery what with tentacle beasts and the way he's kinds humping Lois in that one panel, or the LIFE SIZED dolls of everybody he knows... (Reply to this)

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