Blackest Night: Superman #2

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This is from Blackest Night: Superman #2, by James Robinson and Eddy Barrows.

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[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Kickass Kents.

Best part of Geoff Johns' reign on Superman.

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

Ma Kent is rivaling Alfred in awesomeness here...if they ever were to date, I believe the world would implode from the sheer kickassery.

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

...She is single now...

...

Holy shit. You, sir, have blown my mind.

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

Ma'am :)

And, why thank you!

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

that would be a cool couple.

[stig.insanejournal.com]

Heh, you think that's freaky...I used to co-write an "Ultimate Batman" fan project? And Thomas Wayne turns out to be Two-Face at the end, a paranoid and superintelligent ganglord. We had it that his marriage was very unhappy, and he orchestrated the assassination in order to traumatise Bruce into an adult mindset while scarring his own face with acid, pretending that it had killed him and thus severing any connection between him and the crime-world.

Martha, however...as an act of mercy, he has the killer aim precisely so that the bullet grazes her, damaging her mental abilities. She spends half a year in a hospital, having lost some of her memory...but when Wayne's henchmen come to check on her one day, they find that she has left, having been checked out by a proven friend of her family. That friend drives her away to a small, sunny town where she used to spend her teens...where she first fell in love, and got her heart broken.

A small, sunny town called Smallville.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

Man, can you imagine the first Justice League meeting after Bruce comes back if they did?

Bats: So...your mom...
Supes: Yup. So, we're sort of like brothers, now.
Bats: ...
Supes: I want the top bunk.
Bats: ...

[nerium_oleander.insanejournal.com]

I haven't seen STEP BROTHERS yet, but if I ever watch it now, I'm going to imagine John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell are Clark & Bruce. I just don't know which would be which.

[lieut_kettch.insanejournal.com]

Ooooookay... now the image of Bruce teabagging Clark's drumset is now indelibly stamped onto my brain.

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

"Favorite dinosaur"

Bats and Supes: "Velociraptor"

Supes: "Did we just become best friends?"

Bats: "Yep!"

[sailorlibra.insanejournal.com]

Oh God, I would buy twenty copies of that issue and pass them out to my friends. Then dance around squealing. And then the world imploding would begin.

[taggerung301.insanejournal.com]

that would just be ridiculous

ridiculously awesome that is

[(Anonymous)]

Shoot, that would be like Aunt May dating Jarvis.


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o_O

[misterfedex.insanejournal.com]

And boom goes the fan fic!

[zegim.insanejournal.com]

Make it happen!

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

Oh my god. I don't know what would be better, their epic romance or the reaction of Bruce and Clark to becoming stepbrothers kinda.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Please don't make Alfred a White Martian or a Durlan.

[omgwtflolbbqbye.insanejournal.com]

RULE 34 THAT NOW!

[pindrops.insanejournal.com]

...it's so awesome I cannot unsee it.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

I loved that scene.

I'm 99% sure Martha will come out of this alive (too soon after Jon's death), so the fear of her getting killed by Lois takes a back seat to the fact that Martha Kent Is Being a Badass.

[jaybee3.insanejournal.com]

I love Martha here (and the fact that with Jon dead, they are no longer drawing the Kents as looking like their in their forties) but I really want to see Lois face off against BL Lois.

[hearthemvoices.insanejournal.com]

Martha's in awfully great shape!

[shadowpsykie.insanejournal.com]

Farmer's wife

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

I was kinda "meh" on reading this. Now, finding this awesome bit here, I'll now have to get the trade.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

who thinks the reason why Kal-L is only threatening to raise Pa Kent is because like Don Hall he's "at peace"

Of course with the revelation they're not really the dead people it's harder to figure why that matters. Perhaps people who are at peace are actually able to fight against rising.

I'm also wondering if they'll use this to show us that you don't necessarily need a green ring and another colored ring but someone fueled mostly by will could defeat a Black Lantern if aided by someone mostly fueled by another emotion.

[(Anonymous)]

wait, i thought that this was pa kent....which zombie is this?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

The Lois Lane of Earth-2, Kal-L's wife.

Pa Kent hasn't been resurrected yet.

[(Anonymous)]

ok got it. my bad...didn't notice the earrings and the plants and shadows kinda skewed me noticing the frame or womanly figure

[yaseen101.insanejournal.com]

Actually, since Hal and the Indigo Lantern were able to fend off a BL by combining their powers and the fact that the only way to defeat the Black is to combine all the powers of the Lantern to create a second, 'Light of Creation', maybe the only way one can defeat a Black Lantern is by fully coming to terms with their emotions. If a person dies while he is at peace, like Don or Johnathan, they have come fully to terms wit their emotions and that they have no debts or regrets to anyone whereas the Martian Manhunter died in pain withering as his enemies surrounded him, so he didn't die peacefully and that's why he is a BL.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

except the latest issue of Blackest Night said that it was more like the rings were wearing the dead than the dead were wearing the rings.

Ralph was actually beaten by the Indigo Lantern channeling Hal's power, not just fought off. And Sue didn't react. So individual BL's can be beaten.

Which is what I was talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

I think we all guessed earlier that the rings were controlling the dead rather than the dead having unfinished business.

But these are actually the actual corpses that the rings are on correct? Someone mentioned the idea of the rings just creating like a duplicate of the body, but then that makes black lantern spectre really not make any sense

[shadowpsykie.insanejournal.com]

its not really the Spectre that is a black lantern, its Crispus Allen's body that trapped the Spectre's power.

and so far we know two conditions seem to exist. the way the person died determines if they become Lanterns. So yes, unfinished buisness comes into play, which is why Dove didnt come back, he was "at peace" only people that did not die in peace are coming back. the second condition is yes, the body is theirs, thats how it gets their memories.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

It's like this: Nekron is wearing these bodies, AND their brains and memories, as puppets. Think of it like he dug someone up and wore their face or something grotesque like that. He's taunting, using guilt as a button to push to stimulate other emotions. The perception that the dead are blaming you or reproaching you, dead who are emotionally important to you(leaving aside the villains, who mainly seem to be focused on the lowest common denominator, fear), and are convincing because of their appearance and the specifics of what they say, will be more likely to overwhelm your rationality and let your emotions get away from you, including anger that the corpse is being used that way and desecrated.

Nekron has a very black sense of humor.

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

Martha Kent: Zombie Hunter.
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Ooh! She should get a ring.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

I have a feeling that when we get to the conclusion Salaak will order the GL rings of those killed released from Mogo so Earth;s heroes will have them. So who know who will get one?

[yaseen101.insanejournal.com]

I believe the theory that Robinson has a clone of himself or an evil twin is making more and more sense as time passes.

[zegim.insanejournal.com]

Shit just got real.

And I love it!

[pmagod.insanejournal.com]

bah i meant to buy this today but the unhelpful dick who works at my store told me it wasnt on the shelves. I get along with the owner of the place just fine, its the kid who also works with him that i dislike

[vitruvian23.insanejournal.com]

Is this the same zombie Lois that was able to knock out Krypto, who's, you know, invulnerable?

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

the ring did it.

[jasper_stars.insanejournal.com]

Anyone else shout "YEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHH!"?

Mrs. Kent, you have my blessing to KICK ASS.

[shadowpsykie.insanejournal.com]

this scene is the SOLE reason I bought this issue. The rest of the issue is good, but this scene sold me! i LOVE Ma Kent.

Okay, i move we have a Alfred AND Martha are Kick ASS Week!

heh i can see it now.

Superman: Hey where are Ma and Alfred, I know this place is big, but the tour doesn't take this long.

Batman: Alfred can't move at superspeed, Alfred are you done giving Mrs. Kent the tour?

*notices slightly ajar door*

Batman: hmm my keen detective skills tell me they must be here.

*opens door*

Alfred: Master Bruce!

Superman: Mommy?

Batman: ALfred!

Martha: Clark!

Tim: Hey guys whats?....*urk* excuse me... *goes running for the bathroom.*

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

*notices slightly ajar door*

Batman: hmm my keen detective skills tell me they must be here.

snrk

[silverzeo.insanejournal.com]

Never seen her so awesome since she save Jonathan from Brainiac with a shot gun in the animated series.

[shadowpsykie.insanejournal.com]

post link!

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hnRHQvfxpo

[kingrockwell]

Aw yeah Ma!

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

Eventually, Martha will get her hands on a shotgun. "Hey, she-bitch! Let's go."