Adventure Comics 293

[knight_moves]

Damn, I already made a Zach Snyder joke yesterday. Luckily, Supes snaps out of it. Soon after, he's contacted by the Legion of Superheroes, who want to meet up with the young Kryptonian to show him... his grave!



So, slightly harsher treatment than usual from the LSH.



I know disembodied brains are pretty common pulp motif, but this still really feels like an episode of Futurama, doesn't it?



Do you really need a whole planet for four people? They don't even have shins! Buy a condo.



Obligatory I'm putting a team together moment.



Lightning Lad, I'm just gonna say--it's weird you're riding Krypto. You must have your own jetpack. I know it doesn't seem fair that Saturn Girl gets to ride a horse, but you are trying too hard to make this happen. What's next? You're gonna ask Super-Monkey to carry you? You don't see Cosmic Boy doing that, now do you? And he's the one who wears pink, c'mon.

The Superpets... including Super-Monkey, who isn't at all a pet... trounce the brains.



Oh, oh, now we're worried about preserving the timeline.



So, uh... that whole process probably fucked up Brazil pretty bad, huh? I mean, God forbid the clocks and calendars be incorrect, but... it was pretty nice having the Amazon rain forest...

Comments

[superfangirl1]

Oh those crazy Brain Globes. But I guess thanks to 1000 years of evolution! Science! Made it possible.

[beyondthefringe]

"Super-Cat, I mentally command you to enter!"
"Fuck you, I'm a cat." *licks privates*
"Fine, see if we care. Here's a nice box."
"Oh cool, a box." *leaps in*

You know, the preponderance of disasters, accidents, and so on that always neccesitated superhero invervention makes me wonder if there was every a hero with a subconscious reality-altering or telekinesis or something power that made it so they'd always have something that needed doing. Like, you're bored and your subconscious power makes a plane lose control...

(That reminds me of the alternate reality in the Justice League animated series where everything was being manipulated by a mutant with the "wish it into the cornfield" level of control...

[knight_moves]

Presumably, there's a lot of downtime in a superhero's life, they just don't write comics about it. Hence how Spider-Man can suddenly be lamenting that he hasn't seen any action for weeks when, in the real world, that same time period has seen him fighting Diablo with the Avengers, crossing over with the X-Men...

[beyondthefringe]

Still, especially in the old days, it's like you couldn't go for a walk without a rogue asteroid, a runaway train, an incoming meteor, an exploding volcano, or something else, even in a place like Smallville.

[jlbarnett]

Pete Ross runs into the Kent family kitchen "Clark, you gotta help, the volcano's exploding."

Clark finishing his corn flakes "When did Smallville get a volcano?"

[cainofdreaming]

"The Brain-Globes are defeated?! How'd you do it??"
"Oh, they just left for no raisin."

[scorntx]

"There must be a very good reason Saturn Girl wouldn't tell me."
Not exactly what led Clark to that line of thinking. In fact, given pretty much every interaction he's had with the Legion so far, seems like he should've had the opposite conclusion.

"A good reason. ... like messing with my head, hazing me, just not feeling like it, or a long-term mindgame designed to lure me into a trap."
"Clark, dearie, are you sure these kids are your friends?"
"Yup, a good reason! A real good reason!"