Action Comics #23

[superfangirl1]

Comments

[captainbellman]

That's not a saying, Clark. It's a quotation. Do your damned research.

[icon_uk]

Ah, but if he was always accurate and attributed his sources, people might start to think he was some sort of a journalist! :D

[nate_abril96]

Superman sounds too much like Spider-Man in my opinion. If he were written correctly this could have been more entertaining. Also, did Superman just kill?! Or was the beast not considering living, despite having a heart!

[superfangirl1]

Superman finds out that Lexus is just a robotic zombie kept alive by magic.

[espanolbot]

Ah, that old chestnut.

[nate_abril96]

Meh, good enough. Still doesn't excuse being written poorly.

[cainofdreaming]

And Top Gear always made them seem just kinda dull. That's a whole new look into the manufacturer.

[bizarrohulk]

Except that both "robot" and "zombie" imply a mindless automaton, whereas from what I can see in these scans (I haven't read the book, and given that it's Superman, I never will) Lexus appears to be intelligent and self-aware.

[drmcninja]

You missed a few words in the beginning there, and I thought you'd given "killing yourself" a new meaning for the princess. It was very confusing.

[superfangirl1]

Sorry. It's hard to type long sentences on my phone . :(

[superfangirl1]

A long time ago Lexus used to be a prince and was princess Lourdes( The alien woman that superman took the sword from) brother. He wanted to take over as king and overthrown their father.



There was a long war and the king finally was able to kill his son. But the son was able to be saved himself from not being kill for a few seconds and use his magic to ceate a horcrux to store part of a soul in his heart. Then use the broken machinery around the battlefield as a new body.

Is this better? I hope it is. :)

Writing on a laptop this time.

[bruinsfan]

I believe the Phantom Stranger had a pertinent response to a very similar situation back in Action Comics 585, just after Byrne's version of Superman debuted.

[shadowpsykie]

there's bits and pieces of stuff i like. the "oh, magic." *fall* for instance.

question though. what's the difference between a saying and a quote? in my opinion a Quote can become a saying if it is commonly used where as a Quote isn't....?

[filthysize]

A quote is something accurately taken from somewhere. Clark just quoted a dialogue from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

A saying is folksy wisdom or proverbs that is commonly said by people, typically of unknown origins. Like "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."

[shadowpsykie]

ah okay, I am an english major so i have just learned to site everything, and ignore that which cannot be verified :D

[icon_uk]

I've always been partial to The Way of Mrs Cosmopolite

(The idea being that a local in a small monastery in a far away land saw how often travellers came from hundreds of miles awayto learn from them with the assumption that whatever it is must be wisdom, so he sort of reversed engineered the approach and followed them home, to seek wisdom where they came from (Which was just as far away from him point of view). He ended up taking lodging with Mrs Cosmopolite and he found her utterances to be koan in their own right.)

[shingi70]

Unpopular opinion but i'm really enjoying Lobdell's superman run thus far, even re-picked up Action Comics for him. Its so werid that his superman and Red Hood Runs were really fun, but his titans run died somewhere during the culling arc.

[silicondream]

The best part of this is Superman going "blah, blah, blarrrgh!" It works even better without context.

[icon_uk]

Agreed, that was fun! :)

[zapbiffpow]

Now I know how a Superman does "WHARRGARBL."

This was a fun, great issue.