scans_daily: responding to dizmo's request

3goodtimes (

3goodtimes) wrote in

scans_daily,
@ 2010-02-17 10:25 pm UTC

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char: lois lane, char: perry white, char: question/renee montoya, char: question/vic sage, char: superman/clark kent, creator: chris batista, creator: geoff johns, creator: grant morrison, creator: greg rucka, creator: joe bennett, creator: mark waid, title: 52

responding to dizmo's request

Perry has finally had enough of Clark's doofussery--in this case, he misses the scoop on new hero "Supernova"--and fires him (Week #10).

Gee, I hope this plan works out.

Once the stories fell into his lap. Now he falls into the lap of his stories... or something. >.>

Here's one of my favorite 52 moments. It's from Week #11 and it features Renee and Vic.

Vic, you're the weirdest, greatest therapist ever!

Thanks to whichever mod put the writers and artists in for me!

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	no subject mullon 2010-02-18 04:57 am UTC (link)
	I thought Clark was supposed to be a good reporter regardless of his powers. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 7 comments) (Show 7 comments)

	no subject aaron_bourque 2010-02-18 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Being a good reporter regardless of your powers is different from being a good reporter regardless of your powers and then losing all of your powers. This is in the middle of the third month, he's been trying to adjust without letting anyone but his wife knowing he has to adjust. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject q99 2010-02-18 05:07 am UTC (link)
	Clark's a good writer and can follow leads without powers, but he often picked up on what leads to follow during his Superman patrols and all that. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject pyrotwilight 2010-02-18 05:09 am UTC (link)
	Alternatively we could also say he's just being having a hard time emotionally from the end of IC. Conner died, the Trinity had to disband and so on. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject q99 2010-02-18 05:40 am UTC (link)
	Though after 7 weeks, I think he'd be able to work fine. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject 3goodtimes 2010-02-18 06:26 am UTC (link)
	Was there much mention of Clark grieving Connor in any title? I honestly don't remember anything. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject jcbaggee 2010-02-18 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think so, but due tot he nature of 52 and One Year Later that scan was really the first time he was seen after Infinite Crisis, outside of a panel or two in 52 Week One. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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jaybee3
2010-02-18 03:44 pm UTC (link)

Yes and he is also a best-selling novelist with a name cache in an age when newspapers are struggling, who is married to the paper's #1 reporter (aka Lois, who I'm sure has received other offers and could walk), who in the past has been demoted to citybeat news (the lowest rung) and promoted to non-reporting op-ed columns. Perry could have re-assigned him to do any of those things. Also, prior to 52 and post 52 Perry and Clark are usually on a first name basis, none of this "Kent" this or "Mr. White" that. It's highly unlikely that Perry would fire him after less than 2 months.

This whole scene reads like Waid (who by all accounts wrote most of the Clark Kent stuff) wanted to get to the punchline of Clark pulling a Lois and jumping out the window and needed a "You're Fired" contrivance to do it.

And I loved the Vic/Renee stuff. Some of my favorite parts of 52. I wasn't that interested in Renee before this, even when she was a regular in the Bat-books. I wish they had kept him alive and them as a team (apparently Rucka did too even though Vic's death was decided from the get-go).

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	no subject pyrotwilight 2010-02-18 04:59 am UTC (link)
	I still find it odd that Booster didn't know Clark was Superman. (As we saw in issue 1 of 52) (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 7 comments) (Show 7 comments)

	no subject q99 2010-02-18 05:08 am UTC (link)
	Only some JLAs have been informed, and it might not be public even in the future. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject pyrotwilight 2010-02-18 05:14 am UTC (link)
	Yeah I guess but it just seems awkward considering Booster knows all about the Batcave because of future stuff (and thus Bruce's identity) But somehow not Supermans which'll probably never be explained. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject q99 2010-02-18 05:41 am UTC (link)
	I get the idea that Booster looked up some very specific stuff. But yea, it is kinda odd he never peaked at that. Maybe purposefully- preserve the mystique, Superman's still idolized well into the future. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject iesika 2010-02-18 05:59 am UTC (link)
	Booster's also from Future Gotham, and self-admittedly not a very good history student. So maybe he remembers about the local boy but slept through that other class... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject q99 2010-02-19 03:56 am UTC (link)
	Hah, maybe :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject wonderseal 2010-02-18 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	...Would you let Booster Gold know your secret identity? Really? The stuff we-as-readers know about Booster isn't at all what people know about him in-character. He's a doofy buffoon who'd do anything for a stunt. I'm with Clark on this one. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject ajremix.livejournal.com 2010-02-19 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Booster may know who Clark really is, but Supernova isn't supposed to so having Supernova make any inference of Clark=Superman would've ruined his cover. And would've been doubly harder to explain as Booster Gold was still traipsing around at the same time. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject nevermore999 2010-02-18 05:00 am UTC (link)
	Love these moments. Though I guess the "Kate ended it" thing has been retconned now, along with Kate being closeted. (Reply to this)

	no subject nezchan 2010-02-18 05:23 am UTC (link)
	Been ages since I've read 52, so maybe my memory is off. But wasn't Clark in on the "Supernova" con from the start? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject kingrockwell 2010-02-18 05:35 am UTC (link)
	Well, they took the tech from the Fortress of Solitude, but that doesn't mean they asked. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject kingrockwell 2010-02-18 05:40 am UTC (link)
	"Vic, you're the weirdest, greatest therapist ever!" Isn't he though? huggles Also, it looks like you've got seven pages from Week 10 there. The feature stories in 52 are only 20 pages, so I'm afraid you'll have to cut at least 1/3 of a page there. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject 3goodtimes 2010-02-18 06:22 am UTC (link)
	Will do. Sorry about that! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject kingrockwell 2010-02-18 06:29 am UTC (link)
	thumbs up also i just noticed how Vic says Cris' death had to be answered mannnn that guy always pulls these things on me (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject kingrockwell 2010-02-18 05:44 am UTC (link)
	also it is totally my fan theory that Vic is driving (living out of?) a retooled newsvan there (Reply to this)

	no subject schala_kid 2010-02-18 07:01 am UTC (link)
	I loved this, Clark pulling a Lois Lane was awesome and I just loved the whole Non-Superman Reporter Clark Kent thing! Especially how Busiek handled it during Up, Up and Away (I kind of wished it had lasted a little longer though). I miss Vic :( (Reply to this)

	no subject dizmo 2010-02-18 08:02 am UTC (link)
	Thank you so much. That whole incident never fails to make me giggle a little. :D (Reply to this)

	no subject grazzt 2010-02-18 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and the Rand reference on Vic's t-shirt was kind of cute, too. (Reply to this)

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icon_uk
2010-02-18 03:17 pm UTC (link)

See this is why I like the Man of Steel Clark better, he was a writer (with more than one novel under this belt), an adventurer and a reporter.

He SHOULD be a good reporter whether he has powers or not, because Clark was never the klutz the Silver Age one was.

And as Man of Steel also pointed out, when Lois "lost control" of her car and drove into a river to attract his attention she had an aqualung and a lifejacket hidden under the seat of her car (and Superman knew it from the start). Does Clark have a parachute?

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	no subject autumn_lily 2010-02-19 12:18 am UTC (link)
	VIIIIIIIIICCCC! I hope you come back in Brightest Day! (Reply to this)

	no subject mad 2010-02-21 03:55 am UTC (link)
	I do so love that moment for Clark (and Lois). One of these days I've got to get 52 in trade. (Reply to this)

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