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scans_daily2010-10-04 03:07 pm
starwolf_oakley) wrote in scans_daily2010-10-04 03:07 pm
Adventures of Superman #636: Slay the Monster
In a lower post, we discussed the... idiocy? short-sightedness? in the JLA "reprogramming" Dr. Light and making him a Teen Titans villain. jaybee3 brought up ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #636, and how Wonder Woman said they should have just killed Dr. Light instead of trying a lobotomy that "didn't take." And here are the pages, written by Greg Rucka and drawn by Rags Morales, who also did IDENTITY CRISIS.
Superman asks Batman and Wonder Woman (who is blinded as a result of a fight with I think Medusa) to the new Fortress of Solitude (which at the time was a Tesseract).
Superman is worried about a new villain named Ruin, who seems to know he's Clark Kent (he doesn't) and wants to kill all his friends (he does, only he seems to mix up Clark's friends with Superman's friends).
CLARK: It's Dr. Light all over again, and I don't want to make the same mistake twice.
Diana is confused, but Bruce says "You know what they did?"
CLARK: It's about the League, the old League. Something they did. Something I let them do.
So, murder is bad but personality re-writing is good?
Actually, apparently personality re-writing *is* good, since Mindwipe, Inc. did it at least twice more, with the Top and Catwoman.
Ruin is working with Luthor, but in retrospect I think it was Alexander Luthor, who had been disguising himself as Lex Luthor in the lead-up to INFINITE CRISIS.
To this day, INFINITE CRISIS feels like one big "%#$k you" to all the fans who didn't like IDENTITY CRISIS.
Superman asks Batman and Wonder Woman (who is blinded as a result of a fight with I think Medusa) to the new Fortress of Solitude (which at the time was a Tesseract).
Superman is worried about a new villain named Ruin, who seems to know he's Clark Kent (he doesn't) and wants to kill all his friends (he does, only he seems to mix up Clark's friends with Superman's friends).
CLARK: It's Dr. Light all over again, and I don't want to make the same mistake twice.
Diana is confused, but Bruce says "You know what they did?"
CLARK: It's about the League, the old League. Something they did. Something I let them do.
So, murder is bad but personality re-writing is good?
Actually, apparently personality re-writing *is* good, since Mindwipe, Inc. did it at least twice more, with the Top and Catwoman.
Ruin is working with Luthor, but in retrospect I think it was Alexander Luthor, who had been disguising himself as Lex Luthor in the lead-up to INFINITE CRISIS.
To this day, INFINITE CRISIS feels like one big "%#$k you" to all the fans who didn't like IDENTITY CRISIS.
Re: really?
INFINITE CRISIS had this as well, when Mongul (actually Mongul, Jr.) attacked Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in the wrecked JLA Watchtower satellite. (Wrecked when Superboy-Prime kidnapped J'Onn J'Onzz, but we didn't know that yet.)
The original first InfC issue had the fight, and Diana went after M. Jr with her sword. Superman stops her and Wonder Woman says (snaps?) "What did you think I was going to do?" Clark responds: "I don't even know you any more."
In the InfC TPB (with lots of altered dialogue to make certain things somewhat clearer) Diana says: "I was just going to pin him to the floor."
Clark (IIRC) doesn't respond.
Re: really?
Re: really?