Adventures of Superman #12: Flying Gorillas!

[superfangirl1]

I've been enjoying these out of continuity Superman stories.

Comments

[goggle_kid]

1. I really want a whole issue explaining how Bizzaro got elected.
2. Did he stuff and mount Beppo the Super Monkey? That's cold...

[icon_uk]

You think that's bad, Beppo wasn't even dead when Superman did it.... well, not when Superman started at any rate.

[crinos]

How did Bizarro get elected?

...You know, there's no real answer I can give without getting too political. So Ima leave thisun alone.

[nezchan]

How did Bizarro get elected?

Everyone voted against him, of course!

[goggle_kid]

On Bizarro world not voting is voting! So this July do not vote for Bizarro! This message am not paid for by enemies of Bizarro!

[nezchan]

Bizarro will lose in landslide!

[rainspirit]

This entire comment thread deserves a thousand likes.

[goggle_kid]

Speaking of Bizarro... you will hate new Bizarro cartoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ4Evm5l6j8

[captainbellman]

There am no like button. Therefore comment thread am already receive 10,000 Hates. Bizarro really unhappy with this.

[his_spiffynesss]

And where did he pick up the crown?

[crinos]

Its the Bizarro equivalent of Supes Pope hat.

[leoboiko]

I'm sensing a bit of Batcave envy…

[crinos]

Not only that, he has a giant penny.

WITH THE JOKERS FACE ON IT.

Supes totally stole Batman's giant Penny at some point.

[bardbrain]

Everything in that shot is from pre-Crisis, including the penny.

Batman's Penny is from the Penny Plunderer in a 1947 story.

Superman's penny is from "The Bad Penny Crimes of The Joker" which is referenced in ACTION COMICS #241 (1958) as a case Superman and Batman teamed up on but I'm not sure if we ever saw the story on panel.

I could have sworn it was an actual story but I can't find any evidence of it online. ACTION #241 is the first appearance of the arctic fortress (he had a Fort Superman just outside Metropolis before that) and is the story of Batman breaking into the fortress to surprise Superman with a giant cake.

[bariman]

and is the story of Batman breaking into the fortress to surprise Superman with a giant cake.

Was this after Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes?

[khaosworks]

This was the best Superman story anybody's ever read in years. Seriously, go read the whole thing. Gorgeous writing, gorgeous art.

[bizarrohulk]

That flying ... jet ... thing with the fists. I had the toy of that when I was a kid.

[nezchan]

I used to have the comic where he built it, to fight Amazo as I recall.

[qalchemist]

OMG! So did I. It was my favorite little matchbox-car-like thing. The fists even shot out.

[crinos]

I am more impressed with the fact he has a statue of a thought beast.

AKA: The worst predator ever, since it shows its thoughts on the screen on its head, which means it telegraphs its moves worse than a Punch out fighter.

[icon_uk]

Or it's just so badass that it doesn't CARE that you can see it's thoughts because there's bugger all you can do to stop it.

[crinos]

So its basically a space honey badger.

[icon_uk]

Since I have no idea what that is, is it something I can safely google at work? (This IS s_d, so I feel I have to ask!)

[crinos]

Its basically a nature video about an animal called a Honey Badger, it is NSFW because it shows the Honey Badger eating snakes and mice, and a little bit of language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

Interesting side: I know a guy who has heard my IRL voice and swears up and down I sound just like this guy.

[icon_uk]

The Supermobile... no, seriously, that's what he called it.

[thanekos]

General Zod, traffic cop of the Phantom Zone!

[ensiform]

why can't the new 52 DCnU all be like this? It's glorious.

[junipepper]

Note that this is not in New 52 or post-Flashpoint continuity (evidenced by red-panties!Superman and alive!Ma-Kent).

I have really been enjoying this series. The more we stay out of DCnU continuity, the better, I say.

[ensiform]

.... Uh, of course. It says "not in continuity" right there above the scans. That's what I meant. Why can't all of DC, its new material, all be like this?

[an_idol_mind]

Because DC doesn't want its mainstream comics to have a sense of joy and wonder?

[silicondream]

"Feel your adoptive power whither"

therefore this entire story is invalid, tainted and WRONG

[captainbellman]

...You might want to clarify that point.

[skemono]

I believe they're pointing out that "whither" is a typo.

[captainbellman]

Ah, I didn't notice.

[thanekos]

" WITHER YOUR POWERS NOW, KRYP- oh dammit "

[captainbellman]

Firstly, huzzah! A story told from Martha Kent's viewpoint. I miss the Super-Mums of the DCU.

Secondly: the first sequence gave me a new appreciation for Superman's nickname "The Boy Scout". In one way, he really is like a small child with a limited set of tools (his abilities) trying to be prepared for any situation.

[icon_uk]

Whilst this is very nice to look at, the "Aha, I used my heat vision in a completely unprecedented technobabbly way that doesn't actually make any sense at all, that no one has ever suspected it could do and probably will never do again" bit, whilst very reminiscent of the Silver Age Superman, is pretty much the reason that I didn't actually follow the Silver Age Superman.

(Plus the killjoy anal retentive bit of me is thinking "Heat vision only moves forward in from your eyes, how could it affect something BEHIND you?", but even I try to keep him shut up)

[bardbrain]

What he's saying is complex but it actually works. He IS firing his heat vision forward. The Hubble, behind him is gathering radiation from in front of Superman.

He fires the heat vision forward in bursts that cancelled and reversed the wavelength of the radiation that the Hubble was collecting behind him.

It's not a mysterious new power. It's what a scientific genius could do with microscopic and heat vision.

Brainiac was using the Hubble's collection of radiation as a telescope for his shrink ray. Superman reversed the lens by turning the frequency of the radiation in front of him backwards.

[silicondream]

You can't "reverse" a wavelength, though; it doesn't come with a sign or direction attached. You could flip the phase 180 degrees, but there's no reason why that would cause the shrink-effect to radiate in the opposite direction. The phases of the incoming solar radiation are pretty much randomly distributed anyway.

Plus, if superman could control the wavelength of his heat vision, it wouldn't be heat vision, it would be complete EM-spectrum vision. (For which there's precedent, admittedly. I mean, he somehow made a electromagnetic bottle out of X-ray vision to trap Swamp Thing's disembodied soul once.)

[bardbrain]

Well, if you go with the Silver Age, it's not actually "heat vision" (in that it fires a beam of heat) but a vision power that sees and controls EM frequencies.

If you go back, the first 20 years, it wasn't even called about heat vision. He'd talk about melting things with his X-ray vision. He could, pre-Crisis (and again under Loeb and Kelly) heat up things he was looking in the direction of without line of sight too. For example, he could burn money in a (non-lead) bank vault without creating a hole in the bank vault. He could see it and he could cause it to heat up by looking at it.

It's not really pyrokinesis either. He's able to emit and absorb EM and ultraviolet wavelengths from his eyes.

In this case, he emits a wavelength that cancels and reverses the EM energy in front of him.

And Brainiac isn't using the EM energy as a power source but as a magnifying lens/carrier for his shrink ray. Superman reversed the lens by reversing the wavelength, which caused it to backfire through the telescope.

[bradygirl_12]

Good times, good times! :)