Superman #691

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

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[sailorlibra.insanejournal.com]

Oh, the world hates Superman again. Whoop dee do.

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

Seriously. Plus, the general public having a singular opinion, and being uniformly swayed by single events, is a trope that needs to fucking die, in ALL fiction.

[zordboy.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess it's that time of the year again when DC rolls this storyline out.

Like clockwork. Aren't they bored with it by now? I know I am.

[jaybee3.insanejournal.com]

This is Sam Lane (aka James Robinson's) master plan? To have everyone hate Superman - again. The same plan Luthor came up with in Loeb's S/B: Public Enemies and upteenth times before that? I hate when writers have to make everyone in the DCU so fickle that they always turn on the greatest hero in the universe in a second. I also hate how they've turned Sam Lane who was always a hard-ass but never a b*stard into an even more one-dimensional Snidely Whiplash villain than Zod. So they kill Lois's sister (a character who goes back to the 50s) and make her father a super-villain, the next Wade Eiling. How lame. Is this the kind of stuff we have to look forward in Didio's "Year of Superman" next year.

And once again I have to say that Allura's insta-hatred and distrust of Earth is looking to be the right one. I wonder if Supergirl will realize this? Or Kal?

[lieut_kettch.insanejournal.com]

Because he's the hero GothamMetropolis deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A Dark KnightMan of Steel.

[thokstar.insanejournal.com]

If Norman Osborne using the Skrulls to set himself up as a national hero doesn't interest me, why would I like General Lane using the Kryptonians to set himself up as a national hero?

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

Because DC looked at Marvel's sales figures?

Don't get me wrong; I'm in complete agreement with you. However, the majority of readers who haven't already quit superhero comics seem to just love the shit out of evil assholes running the world, so ...

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

Am I the only one who thinks this pro-Mon-El blitz would last just long enough for him to express him complete support of Superman and his discomfort at being used against Superman's good name?

[batcookies.insanejournal.com]

To be fair, Mon-El's been captured.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Lane bores the living shit out of me.

As for Kal...well, it's been said again and again that Superman is as much image as individual(this is after all the whole point of ALL-STAR), and Kal wrecked that image, so what does he expect?

He's now particularized. In some ways it's good, it's interesting. But once you particularize Superman, he stops being Superman.

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

... you know, General Lane's presumably-brainiac-derived-or-luthor-created (I blame the color scheme for that thought) 'bots/mecha make me think of the Decepticon Lugnut, of TF: Animated fame.

seriously, the build, the mono-eye, the arm with the deadly payload...

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Please, please, please tell me that Alura is somewhere on Earth for some reason and Clark did not just hear her call for him across the soundless vacuum of space.

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

No she wasn't on earth and yes. He was able to hear her call him back to krypton,from the soundless vacuum of space sorry. :)

[jupiterrhode.insanejournal.com]

Hmm, I thought it was much more interesting how those Superman death squad guys are cosplaying as Wondy.

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

The panel where she's talking is focused on his belt, so presumably his belt buckle has a transmitter in it. Not quite a bat-utility belt, but he's getting there. (And yet, the thought of Superman with pouches just brought on some existential 90s terror. Odd.)

[kenn_el.insanejournal.com]

In space no one can hear you nag.

[milleniumrex.insanejournal.com]

Superman on New Krypton dealing with his native culture and its many flaws = epic win.

Chris, Thara, and Mon carrying on his legacy on Earth = epic win

General Lane cosplaying Marvel's Dark Reign = epic fail.

[interrobamf.insanejournal.com]

Pretty much. Lane has been the worst part of this storyline, which has been good otherwise.

[kenn_el.insanejournal.com]

Despite the lame way they took the Supers out of the picture (and still no mention of Conner's return in the main books?), my major quibble is with Mon-El's names. The general public doesn't know the "House of El", so why use the 'Mon-El' name in Metropolis? And why 'Jonathan Kent', when a variation of Lar Gand like Larry Gandy or somesuch would do just as well without making a connection to the Kent Family that is supposedly maintaining at least two secret identities already?

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

Crossing fingers that this leads to Lois laying the smackdown on her father.

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

It will be EPIC.

[arilou_skiff.insanejournal.com]

"Or feeel the Might of America!!"

Snerch!?

BWAHAHAHAHA!

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

If they weren't still clinging to the tatters of the Code, you know that would have a "FUCK YEAH!" after it.

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

So I'm really not understanding General Lane's plan here. He fakes his death several years ago and starts building an anti-Kryptonian army, at a time when the only Kryptonian they know of is Superman, who isn't a threat. He just happens to have all of this when thousands of more Kryptonians no one knew about show up.

I just bet that the real General Lane is actually dead and this guy is actually a Skrull White Martian who knew about Kandor. This is all part of some elaborate plan to... thing.

So I've been wondering, exactly what part does Kon-El play in this whole New Krypton stuff? I'm trying to figure out DC's timeline here and I think my brain is leaking out my ears.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Did they ever state that Lane went underground directly because of Superman/Krypton?

For people in the army, in comics, faking one's death is simply a means of acquiring more influence and less oversight than anything else. Sorta like a secret promotion.

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

... at some point, these guys are gonna end up being called the Superman Revenge Squad, aren't they?

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

FEEEEL the might of America.

LMAO

[dustbunny105.insanejournal.com]

Uh huh.

Props to Lane for being able to stand fists-on-hips and say, "FEEL THE MIGHT OF AMERICA!" with a straight face.